pnwjeff
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I purchased a home from the early 1900s and it has an old sump in the crawlspace made out of bricks. It goes down roughly 15' and is no longer needed. The bricks have started to come apart and it lets ground water into it that has to be pumped out because it is sealed at the bottom.
I would like to fill in the hole, would I be ok to fill it with gravel and seal it with concrete at the top assuming the ground water would seep into it and then eventually equalize pressure at some point and stop filling it. We have installed another sump and a perimeter drain system for our basement making this old system unnecessary.
I would like to fill in the hole, would I be ok to fill it with gravel and seal it with concrete at the top assuming the ground water would seep into it and then eventually equalize pressure at some point and stop filling it. We have installed another sump and a perimeter drain system for our basement making this old system unnecessary.