Honestly, my foreman in Mobile kept telling me to run the suction line at full throttle in silt, said it was the only way. Ruined a pump in 3 days.

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Man, that's rough. I had a boss who pushed the same thing on a muddy site outside Biloxi. Running wide open in that fine silt just grinds the impeller down to nothing. It's brutal on the seals, too.

andrewh952mo ago

Yeah, that fine silt is a killer, but I've found if you throttle back just enough to keep the suction, it actually pulls less abrasive material into the pump. Lets the water do more of the work without chewing up the impeller as fast.