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This thing was custom poured, not prefab, probably when 
the house was built. The opening is roughly a 3 foot 
square lid about two feet away from the house and about 
six feet from the kitchen door. It's at least six feet 
deep, maybe a 10 foot square. The wall away from the house 
is perpendicular to the ground, but the wall opposite it 
slopes to somewhere under the house. The field line that 
once drained it's former function was clay pipe that 
collapsed (thus, the problem). As a container it appears 
relatively water tight (maybe good for a septic, not good 
for a cellar?). If it leaks, it is minimal as we tested 
our well when all this came to light and they told us 
there was not enough nitrogen in the sample to have been 
contaminated by the septic tank.


On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:52:09 -0500
 Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:41 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net> 
> <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:
>
> > Here's my idea: We are really in need of a root cellar.
> > The opening to this thing is right outside our kitchen
> > door. Here's a large, concrete cavernous underground 
> > space
> > with no purpose. My husband is skeptical, but not 
> > looking
> > forward to digging through rock to build a root cellar. 
> > I
> > don't see why it couldn't be cleaned up, retrofitted and
> > used for the purpose.
>
> How big is this thing? Drainage okay?
>
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