Pumping from back dam
Yesterday we started pumping from the back dam and as everything seemed to be chugging along and it was lunch time we decided to leave the pump and go back to the house. After lunch we discovered that the wind had blown the ladder against the pipe going into the tank and it now had a kink stopping incoming water and the pump was still pumping! Lesson - don't leave the pump and tank unattended. It may have only just happened, though, because two rungs of water had been pumped. So we left it at that. I have included a picture of the back dam in all its muddy glory and the path to the tank at the top of the hill, plus the pump hard at work.