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Originally Posted by TimT
I live about 150' from a canal, and about 400' from a lake...
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That looks like a former buddy's place he was working on.
And me many times. After a 3hr one-way drive.
(I cringed when he waded across to reset the pump circuit breaker.)
(We had a day-long argument as to replacing kitchen flooring instead of shimming the old to put new click together on top of unstable base)
After it was drained, the bad surface mold was killed by running an ozone machine down there.
That stuff will seriously burn lung tissue. Don't be inside when it runs. A day or three to air out after.
You can buy any number of pumps and drain it into the yard with hoses.
A portable generator will power the same thing.
Be careful about the total draw on the box...
Another suggestion would be raising the floor a foot or so, if there is room, with some kind of epoxy vapor barrier up to rim joists.