Re: Weather Unrecovery; Photo Recovery

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:36:53 -0700, Robert Uhl <eadmund42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm actually not *too* sure where sea level is. The river levels are very
slightly under ground level, here, as is ground water. Allegedly our
neighbourhood had some extra deep groundwater for the past couple of
months due to construction somewhere nearby with extensive pumping, but
lately that's stopped and the groundwater is up way above the cellar floor
again.

What's the traditional (i.e., pre-electricity) way to keep a cellar dry
then? A wind-powered pumping station in every cellar? Sending Youngest
Child down there with a bailing bucket?

Building it waterproof, as far as I can tell. Not that this cellar was
built pre-electricity. Unfortunately the said cellar is no longer
waterproof. It's also not got a nicely sloping floor with a small
depression that will fit a pump nicely.

Anything pre-late-19th doesn't have a cellar and/or is built on the
higher-up land in the center of town.

Jasper
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