About ten years ago, a neighbor took two to three days of trouble-shooting in the first week of April, with no water going to the cottage, to determine what was blocking their waterline into the lake, a 1 1/4" diameter black poly flexible tube, and finally dug up the whole 125' of line out of the ground. He was expecting to find an ice damage crack in the line somewhere but there was no crack in the line.
What was the problem? Chipmunks had crawled into the open end that's close to the lake on the embankment and stored acorns inside the line causing a blocked water line. It took him like three days to find that out.
For a temporary hook-up, a garden hose attached to the outside garden hose faucet, with a $68-1/6hp utility pump at the end which gets submerged into the lake can be used to fill up one's 30-gal water storage tank attached to the shallow well pump that's under the cottage.
On the brite side, by fixing it yourself you are probably avoiding something like a $425 plumber service call and that's for on the mainland, not out on an island.
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Last edited by fatlazyless; 04-29-2014 at 10:34 AM.
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