are you sure the whine is not a noise from the check valve??
My old TT if I turned the kitchen tap on to just the right flow I could make that baby sing, the rest of the flow rates created a small whine noise in the check valve which is where your hose is hooked up to.
the water on the city side should enter the system after the punp (on the pressure side) and should have no effect on the pump as the pump itself has a checkvalve, if that check valve failed then the water has to go somewhere to go through it, ie back into tank, is that happening?
is you pump a diaphram pump? if so there is nothing to spin by the water