My buddy had a weird one with a security guard about Catcher in the Rye. The guard said Holden just needed a decent sandwich and a nap, and now my friend can't read it seriously.

Man, that sounds brutal but honestly not that wild for the Snake. That whole system is basically built on glacial flour. We always ran a secondary settling pit before the pump intake, just a simple dugout thing, and it saved our butts more than once. The fine stuff needs time to drop out, screens just get blinded instantly. Maybe your setup was moving too much water too fast for the silt to settle?

That exact thing happened to us with a bathroom. The real kicker was finding out our home insurance might cover some of the mold remediation, which we never would have thought to ask about.