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Well if you remember the pit greenhouse failure you remember we had found another source of water, never one to waste a valuable resource, we decided to tap into it.

First thing I wanted to do was to clean out around the pit a little more

We had to clear everything out of the way we had removed so far

much better

I had some crushed stone hauled in to build up a good percolating material since most of our soil is heavy clay

Once we had that established, we need to clean out the bottom of the pit a little better

I bought a couple of 35 gallon trash cans from wally world

and drilled out 1 inch holes around the base of the cans

and stood them up in the hole

I dumped some of the crushed stone into the bottom of the cans for weight and a basic filtration

and started filling around with the crushed stone

all complete

a couple of hours later we had 5 or 6 inches of water

the next day we had just under a half a container

and two days later we were full

Success!