Water woes

One of the unique features of our lives here in the Koots is that we (ie; our community) look after our own water. It's a bit more than the well you might have been used to in your youth. We have two submersible pumps in the lake lifting water to a treatment building where we chlorinate and filter the water as it moves to a reservoir. We're talking fairly major equipment here.

Anyway, the other day, two of the volunteers discovered that the lake pumps weren't coming on when it was time to fill the reservoir. The crew (several of the more experienced neighbours) was called out to troubleshoot. During the examination, a cracked gate valve in the lake pump house was discovered. This meant that the whole system had to be shut down and that two of us got to spend most of Monday morning taking apart some of the pieces you see in the picture to replace the leaking valve.