How are we getting on? Swimmingly…

…or…do you know what happens when the hose clamp on a 2000 gallons per hour marine tank pump rusts and snaps?

A basement full of salt water.

Fortunately only a thin layer, because there are failsafe bulkheads that prevent a) the tank from draining below the top drainholes, about 10 gallons; and b) a bulkhead that prevents the sump from draining more than 15 gallons. And the bulkhead connector to the Iwaki pump, that is set 3″ from the bottom of the last of five chambers of the sump?

Jane, from t...