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From what has been said ST knew what they were doing when they designed this pump, one feature I have never seen is the holes through the impeller, it only has 0.002” clearance from the casing round the outer edge so no meaningful quantity of water would travel behind it,it also has a 0.031” gap behind it, so is there a reason for the holes?