Monti-Man, my husband is an electrician and he would agree with you. I have been given crap often for not having a ground probe in a sump as well as the tank and what-not..
Prior to that, I've been drilled several times because of a cracked heater, etc.
Tony, just out of curiosity, is the pump leaking voltage a Sedra? We had two Sedras do that to us.