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[Cob] RE: cobbing in CT.Mary Lou McFarland louiethefifth at hotmail.comMon Jan 10 13:08:52 CST 2005
In response to your situation with drilling your well.....did the driller mention to you that if he taps in to your folks water vein that either you or they will lose good water supply?, especially if you are closely located. Why 300 ft deep? Granted, I'm located in the midwest and generally we aren't very rocky but 300 ft. just seems awfully deep. My parents lived on an acreage that had a well in the 25 to 50 ft range. In August when it was hot and dry laundry was done in town. Re-fill was very quick and we were never out of drinking or general use water. With a shallow well you have to be concerned about contaminants such as agricultural run off, which generally isn't a concern unless you are in close proximity to a worked field. If you could do a shallow well check out Lehman's web site. They specialize in serving the Amish community and if memory serves me correctly they sell stuff for shallow wells...all the way from drilling to topping it off with a pump. We recently had to fill in a cistern because of the town code and safety issues. If we had a cistern in the country, I would have hung onto it. The cistern water could have been used for everything but consumption. Here we have a grocery store with a water re-filling station and if we provide our own jugs, you can get filtered drinking water for 39cents a gallon. Perhaps the cistern or shallow well could keep your project on budget for now and the deep well could come later.
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