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<blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 107550" data-attributes="member: 3373">You are correct in the the principal of a pump pit for drain tile is similar to a sewage lift station. The ones I've seen were installed by plumbers but it's a sewer line to the pit like any other sewer line. Then the lift station pumps it up (lifts) to the main sewer line and from there it drains out to the city sewer or your sewer or drain field. Really fairly simple concept if you remember that s__t runs downhill. The only real problem could be if electricity goes out and someone forgets that that level of sewer in your house cannot be used until the power comes back on. And of course, the lift station is more than just a water pump that is used for a drain field. A lift station has to pump some solids.I wouldn't worry about putting one in a house I owned as they have simplified&nbsp; sewer lines in houses where the sewer is not as deep as a basement level. Has to be thousands of them in ND and you rarely hear about a problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Retired Educator, post: 107550, member: 3373"] You are correct in the the principal of a pump pit for drain tile is similar to a sewage lift station. The ones I've seen were installed by plumbers but it's a sewer line to the pit like any other sewer line. Then the lift station pumps it up (lifts) to the main sewer line and from there it drains out to the city sewer or your sewer or drain field. Really fairly simple concept if you remember that s__t runs downhill. The only real problem could be if electricity goes out and someone forgets that that level of sewer in your house cannot be used until the power comes back on. And of course, the lift station is more than just a water pump that is used for a drain field. A lift station has to pump some solids. I wouldn't worry about putting one in a house I owned as they have simplified sewer lines in houses where the sewer is not as deep as a basement level. Has to be thousands of them in ND and you rarely hear about a problem. [/QUOTE]

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