>>12712280No. Mines flood and it was discovered the maximum height one can use a pump vacuum to draw out water was about 32 feet. So miners would create a set of stepped pumping stations, each one about 30 feet above the other, each station filling a basin for the station above to draw from.
Why 32 feet? The atmospheric pressure of about 15 lbs per sq inch is the force pushing water up the tube with vacuum at the other end where equilibrium of force is reached at 32 feet.
