I'm installing a basement bathroom with shower and a kitchen.. I broke the cement floor only to find lots of water under the cement floor. I started to dig out the gravel to find the P-Trap and the line that leads to the sewer.. I was digging out the gravel by hand and haven't reached the P-trap yet and I'm almost up to my elbow in water.. 11 inches of it... I tried to shop vac it out but it can't keep up.. How am I going get rid of all that water quick and install my new piping..

First of all you must locate the source.
A pressure leak, a drainage leak, ground water intrusion or rain watrer run off. Good luck, Tom

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Originally Posted by speedball1

First of all you must locate the source.
A pressure leak, a drainage leak, ground water intrusion or rain watrer run off. Good luck, Tom

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I believe it's rain water run off or ground water.. I just didn't think it was going to be that much...

If it is ground water could be a problem.

I have spring under house. Installed a sump pump and it run for 3 days before it shut off. Now it run about 3 times an hour unless it rains. Then more often.

Hope this is not your problem.

Good luck

Chuck

If this is ground water/ rain water runoff then Greahands has the solution. Install a sump pump.
Do not connect the sump pump discharge to the house sewer. Run it out of the house away from the foundation. Good luck, Tom

Yep, you already have the floor broke. Put the pit in now with plenty of rock around it. Pump to outside your foundation and away.

A dry well may help you disperse of the water the pit discharges, (see image) Good luck, Tom

We have not heard back from you but you are getting the righht advice, you need a sump pump, is there none now?