Thanks very much for that reply Chris. Not to be too finicky but I don't see the need to rip up boards and dig holes although I can see that this would definitely do the trick. When this problem first manifested I used a ShopVac to deal with it, as I have said before. I was hoping to do the same sort of thing with a pump - manually vacuum up the sheet of water accumulating on the floor but instead of me shlepping the water to the back of the backyard, the pump would do the work. Do you know if there are pumps like this - where the person essentially vacuums up the water and the pump throws it out to a remote site?

Thanks

John, Whitehorse, Yukon