I don't know what the laws are where you are, but where I live you are not allowed to channel water to someone else's property. It must exit your own property to the street. I agree with Yardvaark. It sounds like you need to research where the city planners designed the water to go and find out why its not going there. Its not hard to find that info. The city should be able to give you the development plan for your subdivision. Our city worked with us to help us solve the problem we had. I was told that just after the subdivision was built some neighbors further up the hill from us had similar issues to you. The city had to come in and build a storm drain through at least 2 of the lots to solve the issue for them. If you were not having these issues before your neighbor built his pool and garage then it sounds like you need to bring the issue up and demand it be solved. If it had happened to us and the city and homeowner weren't helpful in solving the problem we'd be suing both of them for not addressing the issue of drainage and recouping the cost of having to pump all that water out. In my son's old neighborhood the one house on the corner that was the lowest and kept getting flooded year after year was finally purchased by the city, torn down and a small park sits there now. But it took a long time for that to happen. I don't know for a fact, but I suspect law suits were involved. - In the link below I show how we solved our problem. But we really didn't have much issue with neighbors' lots draining into ours it was that our lot wasn't graded correctly in the first place and the water had no outlet to exit our property. Good Luck and please report back what happens. Here is a link that might be useful: Back yard drainage

You may need to soak with PB Blaster or something better for several days - below is a reprint from a previous post of mine. I am not familiar with the pulley on your particular application but I have used an air chisel with a blunt bit driving from behind with great success OR if it is a steel pulley, drill a hole to accept a 5/16" bolt on each side of the center hub out far enough to get a washer and nut on, drill matching holes in a pc. of 1/2" or thicker bar stock in the 1-1/2" wide range. run a bolt into the center of the crankshaft at least an inch and leave it 1/2" above pulley or insert a pc of round stock for a spacer between end of crankshaft and face of pulley, run hardened bolts thru the bar you drilled and thru the pulley, put a washer and nut on the back side, tighten both bolts evenly, hit the center of the bar a good sharp rap may help when there is a lot of tension on the bolts. Good luck, Walt Conner

It sort of looks like the my broken pump. What doesn't look right are the two prongs sticking out of the side and the plug isn't flat like mine. Plus it the specs doesn't say it's a low voltage 12 volt pump. I'm thinking Rio doesn't make low voltage pumps any longer. I spent an hour looking on the web and could only find one internet site that carried a different brand of 12 volt pumps, so I ordered it. When it gets here I'll then try to figure out how to connect it up. Hopefully the plug looks the same as the one I have... This is what I ordered: Here is a link that might be useful: 12 volt pump

Hi bberna, A jet pump is a double impulse pump that uses a venturi acceleration of the water to deliver more power to the second impulse, which then pushes the water up. This should be why that pump is using 2 tubes from the creek to the pump jacket housing. The many seals of a double impulse pump are where problems can occur. I don't like them because trouble shooting is always hard to sort out where to look & often end up re-doing installation bit by bit. The 65 foot distance of pump to creek is not suited for a standard centrifugal pump because they can't lift that column of water. Your jet pump range is quite a bit deeper still. Submersibles are expensive to change over to. Any pipe in the creek sucking water better have a filter to keep debris from reaching the pump housing, but your vertical check valve usually has a filter on it's tip. It doesn't sound like you've inspected the below water arrangement yet. Have you have tried to operate it as is, or tried to prime it ? Putting a filter after the pump, in line with your irrigation system, should use a filter rated to allow enough water flowing through that it avoids back pressure into the pump. Check to make sure your electrical wire is adequate for the pump installation. Using thin gauge wire &/or loose connections is one way to progressively overheat the motor coils. You probably have an older pump & they don't make 'em like they used to, so keep working with it. Pump motors can be rewound too.