Hi Andy; If you have access to wire tracer simular to those used by telephone and electrical workers; you can disconnect the water back at the source, run a clean cable (or wire) down the pipe; hook the signal generator to it and trace the pipe to your shallow place. If you set the signal generator to low output you can get an idea of the shallow place by the width of receiver pattern on the surface. This may not be a solution in the midst of a storm but it can be the ounce (gram) of prevention needed.
In the mean time we go to the neighbor which has water, fill a significant container with water and pretend we are camping out. No fun but survival. Good luck Don On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 7:37 PM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 December 2010 23:25, R.L. Wurdack <di...@nwlink.com> wrote: > > > The problem I had was caused by a road > > regrading. > ... > > Likely it is: 1. close to the cistern, 2. close to the house or > > pumphouse, or 3. Where the terrain has changed most recently from grading > > etc. > > This is our guess, the track into the upper half of the hamlet is > washing out / eroding and we suspect that the pipe is above the frost > level now. This is the first time there has been a problem in 25 years > of them living there. (Part of the problem is that they didn't put the > pipes in, and nobody who knows where they were laid is still living in > the village. > > -- > atp > "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise > men" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, > and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users