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June 26
squashedcomments: answers: squashed: This pipe is in my basement. From what I can tell, it’s primary purpose is to spew water into the basement when there is a record storm fall. Were basement flooding pipes were fashionable in the sixties? Might that be for a sump pump? […] I would say it could be a sump pump—but there doesn’t seem to be any sort of actual pump. I’d have a plumber look at it. It’s very possible that there’s supposed to be a sump pump sitting on top of it, and at some point in the past, an owner removed theirs and never replaced it.

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This pipe is in my basement. From what I can tell, it’s primary purpose is to spew water into the basement when there is a record storm fall. Were basement flooding pipes were fashionable in the sixties?

Might that be for a sump pump?

[…] I would say it could be a sump pump—but there doesn’t seem to be any sort of actual pump.

I’d have a plumber look at it. It’s very possible that there’s supposed to be a sump pump sitting on top of it, and at some point in the past, an owner removed theirs and never replaced it.