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What’s Wrong Sump

March 16, 2018

What's wrong with this picture?

Notice the copper tubing curling from 6 o'clock counter clockwise up to about 11 o'clock? It doesn't go anywhere. That's because someone removed the mechanical leak detector, which was probably in slow flow and irritating the customers. In our training we warn folks not to do this. In fact we learned last year about a $15,000 fine from a state UST agency to a UST operator who did just that.

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  1. william alvey says:

    can’t say about the sump but the picture is over exposed toward the sunny side and under exposed toward whatever is going on in the sump

    1. Ben Thomas says:

      Hi William. If you look at the bottom of the turbine pump, around 7 o’clock, the one plug with the silver square in the circle is where the automatic line leak detector should be. Someone removed it and plugged it so there’s no way to look for a 3 GPH leak in the pressurized piping.

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