[CanadianSal]

No sure what this should be called. My sump pump currently empties into my septic tank. Over the last 2 days, we have had the equivalent of a month of rain, and the pump was going almost every 2 minutes.

As a result, I disconnected the discharge to the septic system, and allowed the pump to discharge into the yard. I will like to contuinue doing so, but worried that the diuscharge lines may freeze. Its currently -4 and with the pum going almost every 2 minutes, I am assuming that the rsik of freezing is small.

I will like to have a way to switch between discharging into the septic tank and discharging into the yard. Other that using 2 Fernco connections, that I will have to disconnect and reconnect everytime I want to do so, is there some kind of valve I can use? The discharge pipe is 1.5" pvc.

 

[Domo]

No sure what this should be called. My sump pump currently empties into my septic tank. Over the last 2 days, we have had the equivalent of a month of rain, and the pump was going almost every 2 minutes.

As a result, I disconnected the discharge to the septic system, and allowed the pump to discharge into the yard. I will like to contuinue doing so, but worried that the diuscharge lines may freeze. Its currently -4 and with the pum going almost every 2 minutes, I am assuming that the rsik of freezing is small.

I will like to have a way to switch between discharging into the septic tank and discharging into the yard. Other that using 2 Fernco connections, that I will have to disconnect and reconnect everytime I want to do so, is there some kind of valve I can use? The discharge pipe is 1.5" pvc.

Go to your local pool supply store. Or try googling pvc diverter valve through Home Depot.

 

[hkstroud]

Should be a relatively easy task. Show photo of sump pump and sewage ejection pump.

Pipe out of the sump pump with 1 1/2" PVC up to and above floor level. Install a 1 1/2" tee with the side port looking toward the sewage ejection pit. Install a short section of 1 1/2" PVC, install a 1 1/2 PVC ball valve. Continue piping to sewage pit. Piping should only penetrate sewage ejection pit cover. Should not be below the water level that activates the sewage ejection pump. I would also recommend installing a check valve to prevent the possibility of sewage entering the sump pump pit. In reality the check valve and the ball valve can be installed anywhere along this line.
Out of the top of the tee, install piping up to and above the outside grade and through the wall.


With the ball valve open, the water from the sump pump will flow to the sewage ejection pit. With the ball valve close the water from the sump pump will be pumped up and to the outside.
If you drill a small 1/8" hole in the piping below the sump pump cover, the water in the piping will flow back down into the sump pump pit when the sump pump turns off, there by preventing freezing when water is being ejected to the outside.

 

[CanadianSal]

Thanks - your solution sounds like what I need, bu I can't follow the instructions. Here is a picture. The pump is currently connected to teh outside, the other pipe goes to the septic system - via a buried pipe that also lives outside.

 

[hkstroud]

Post a wider view of your present set up.

 

[Nealtw]

2 shut off valves.

 

[CanadianSal]

2 shut off valves.

Thank you - I just not sure how to install it relative to the T connection mentioned above.

 

[3onthetree]

from post #2

 

[Nealtw]

Thank you - I just not sure how to install it relative to the T connection mentioned above.

I would just put them both into you flex fittings and put a T or a Y to get pipes to them .