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I've "manned the pumps" at the subterranean Augustine Heerman
Warehouse (he may also be responsible for an early view of New
Amsterdam drawn from perhaps a "camera obscura", ambassador to
Maryland, introduction of tobacco, and now I've found famous
glassware) site of the Dutch East/West Indies, as the excavation went
below 19th century basements and coal bins. Between Whitehall, Bridge,
Pearl, and almost Broad streets (where they used to count all the
checks in the "world" and our electronic equipment used to fritz
occasionally) water from fall/winter ran or came into the site. We
used a Gould submersible I think worked on 120V and it had a cage on
the intake to keep the larger rocks and pebbles out.
At another site the US Federal "Assay Site" a union dockbuilder was
certified to man up to five pumps, and I was happy to no longer be
doing that especially when I heard his take home pay! Wow we were on
the nascent ESPN (sports TV network) business report, they up near one
of the few places in Connecticut named after that Puritan of old New
York and New Haven, Isaac Allerton, who came over on the Mayflower,
and is "lost" in James Deetz's "In Small Things Forgotten".
When I read this message my Google Gmail gave a link to this
revolutionary pump which may or may not (maybe a smaller version they
would make?) work for your site if one could channel to it perhaps,
mate.
http://www.theferipump.com/
George Myers
Waltzin' Matilda
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