So, as mentioned before, we finally do have the furnace running up at 100 High Meadow Lane. We also had a lot of rain in the last few weeks. We found out about a month ago (before the tank was hooked up) that we were having water problems on the west end of the house where we had buried the propane tank. Arriving to work on a Saturday morning, I discovered that the tank had floated in the ground and surfaced like a submarine. The tank had largely been back-filled with sand, and water entering the excavation had pooled up in the more porous material.

It had appeared that the water had come via surface runoff behind the tank, so we spent the better part of the day digging out around the tank, re-leveling it, and creating a berm behind the excavation. Unfortunately, when got the next heavy rainstorm the following weekend, we discovered that the water had been coming in from the ground itself. We hadn't yet re-filled the hole with sand, and we watched as it filled back up with water, to the point where the tank again floated in the hole and turned on it's side.

This time Eric and I dug a trench out of the hole, down the hillside, to release the water (flash flood). We reset the tank (again), and this time put in a drainage system to release any pooling water. The tank was hooked up by the propane company, and we backfilled the hole (again). After another torrential rain this week, it seems our new system works.