Hey Miles -
Thanks for your reply.
I may have to run an extension cord from the pastor's house out back to the walipini if I can't figure out another method, but I would very much like to get something going that doesn't need to send electricity back there.
I'm also hoping that I don't have to spend much money on a problem that may evaporate once the place gets dried out. It didn't flood in the summer, and we've had a very strange wet and warm early winter here in Minneapolis, so it may not happen again next year.
But I'd like to have a hand pump that I can use to pump water to irrigate and make
compost tea also.
I'm looking at bilge pumps and old=fashioned pitcher pumps, but they may not handle water with sediment in it very well.
With freezing temps now, I'm getting a lot less water as I bail it out with buckets, and hopefully soon it will dry entirely.
I'm sure it will flood again in the spring though, and I'd like to be able to push out a lot of water at once.