It may be a good idea to add a 2 inch connection behind pump for a fire hose connection just in case the line gets plugged with sludge you can flush with high pressure water. I have seen pumps like this in a sump set together and valves set so the discharge from one can be used to backflow...
Adding KMnO4 to water adds Mn to water and that comes in two states soluable and insoluable. Insoluable Mn will flocc and settle with alum or most any other coagulant. But any soluable Mn in water will bypass settling and convert to insoluable Mn when chlorine (or other oxidant) is added to...
I ran a plant in middle Tennessee. The state had to approve each site to be sure it wouldn't get back into streams. We would stock pile it at the plant and give it to anyone that would haul it away. We had no problem getting people to come to get it. It may have taken more fertilize but it made...
