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Taking a look down the old Water Well #6546308
05/29/19 11:53 PM
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Still working after 140 years...

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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546337
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I would say so.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546355
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Thats pretty neat. A lot of folks have no concept of where their water comes from....just turn on the tap.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546365
05/30/19 04:48 AM
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how deep is it

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546375
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At redid a well like that at a house I own last summer. It was 50" inches in diameter, 19 feet to the water and the water was over twenty feet deep. It was lined from the top to below the water line with stacked stones. I would love to know how that work was done. The original house was built around 1900.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: ] #6546383
05/30/19 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Wylee
Thats pretty neat. A lot of folks have no concept of where their water comes from....just turn on the tap.


City folks know where it comes from, the government. lol


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546389
05/30/19 06:42 AM
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My well is also over 100 years old.When I first bought my property,I was pouring a concrete top for the well.An older guy stops by asking If I was using the old well.I said I was and he said his grandfather had dug that well.He knew just how deep it was,30 feet.
he said it has never gone dry,and neighbors used to stop by to get water from it when they were having trouble with their wells.I have access to city water but never tied into it.I still use the old well.


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546400
05/30/19 07:15 AM
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Our well is 22 feet. Never ran dry. Yet.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546435
05/30/19 08:41 AM
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Those shallow wells are far more likely to be contaminated . Just because it tastes good and does not have an odor doesn't make it a good well


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Snowpa] #6546443
05/30/19 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Snowpa
Those shallow wells are far more likely to be contaminated . Just because it tastes good and does not have an odor doesn't make it a good well

I had mine tested and just for giggles brought a second sample from the city tap water to compare.My well water is cleaner than the city tap water.


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546450
05/30/19 09:00 AM
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City tap water is gross


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546463
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Water safety is almost as controversial as how to dye your traps. If you are using public water that comes from lakes or rivers down stream from farming areas then you probably have atrazine in your water. If you drink bottled water that's filled from filtered tap water then you may have atrazine in your water. The only way to get it out is by carbon filtration.

Food for thought is (if you can believe it) that atrazine turns male frogs into females. If your singing a little higher or not croaking as low as you used to well then, I haven't seen the antidote!

Just to show you how on top of things the public utilities are; the water plant that serves a lot of counties in Southern illinois was losing 2.5 million gal a day and took a week to find it after they started noticing a loss.

Neighboring areas have been without water at different times over the years. I've never been without water over 50 yrs. except for occasionally pump problems but I stay ahead on my reserve.

So fill your wells up if you want, wouldn't be first time in history they did it then have to clean them out when their family and live stock got thirsty.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546465
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Mine is 25 feet deep.


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546466
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I have a 21 foot deep dug well on my camp property in Centre County, Pa. It was dug in 1888. I don’t use it for a water source, but rather as a modified root cellar. There is a concrete slab with a metal trap door on top of the well head. I store 50# sacks of potatoes in there....I lower them down with rope and tie them off a few feet above the water level. I still have potatoes in there that I dug last August, they still haven’t sprouted yet. Being below ground, they won’t freeze and the humidity level is good too. I also store my gladiolus and dahlia bulbs there too.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: 330-Trapper] #6546470
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
City tap water is gross


When my nieces were young they wouldn't drink the water at the farm to clear


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Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546483
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Since the small shops have closed, the last couple times buying shallow well parts have been a real head ache.
People that work at the chain stores don't know they exist.
Uncle just bought one at farm supply, I'm watching to see how it holds out.
I probably should bite it and buy submersible next time.

Been on shallow well all my life, and I'm far from normal lol.





Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: 330-Trapper] #6546515
05/30/19 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by 330-Trapper
City tap water is gross


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I find city water hard to drink. The flavor is terrible and it tastes like chemicals to me.

Keith

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546516
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Originally Posted by Foxpaw
Food for thought is (if you can believe it) that atrazine turns male frogs into females. If your singing a little higher or not croaking as low as you used to well then, I haven't seen the antidote!


There are a lot of medicines and hormones in most city water, that cause men to be more feminine and females more masculine. I believe that those chemicals are part of the cause of liberals. The chemicals change human thought.

Keith

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Canvasback2] #6546518
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My well is 515' deep.

Re: Taking a look down the old Water Well [Re: Ranger109] #6546522
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We, and almost all of our neighbors, have springs. I have a small cistern up in the forest about 300 yards from the house and a bigger one just above the house. Great water pressure from the elevation drop and good quality. Maybe a bit too much copper and iron, but very clean.

Pete

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