has anyone left the water on... for.....

[DawnSuiter]

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my daughter was running the hose watering the garden beds I believe it was.... about the same amount of time. We didn't realize it until the toilet started acting up and what water did come through was brown mud.

it was horrible, two summers ago in the middle of a drought... we were lucky though and caught it before it went completely dry, but still 3 weeks with no water to speak of and another 2 weeks or so of muddy leftovers, 3 filter changes... etc etc etc

I too still have nightmares...

 

[BellLisamo]

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my daughter was running the hose watering the garden beds I believe it was.... about the same amount of time. We didn't realize it until the toilet started acting up and what water did come through was brown mud.

it was horrible, two summers ago in the middle of a drought... we were lucky though and caught it before it went completely dry, but still 3 weeks with no water to speak of and another 2 weeks or so of muddy leftovers, 3 filter changes... etc etc etc

I too still have nightmares...

goodness gracious! i never knew of these things happening!!!!!!

wow!

 

[eggsforsale]

I've also burned up a pump. It is literally an expensive nightmare. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and obsess about water. "Did I turn the water off after filling the trough?" I sneak out of bed and go out in the dark in my jammies and check the hoses. I do this every now and then. My husband thinks I'm crazy. I think he's right.

 

[Camelot Farms]

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my daughter was running the hose watering the garden beds I believe it was.... about the same amount of time. We didn't realize it until the toilet started acting up and what water did come through was brown mud.

it was horrible, two summers ago in the middle of a drought... we were lucky though and caught it before it went completely dry, but still 3 weeks with no water to speak of and another 2 weeks or so of muddy leftovers, 3 filter changes... etc etc etc

I too still have nightmares...

We could have commiserated together then...that's exactly when we had our disaster. Drought was bad enough but that just compunded it! Ugh!

 

[BellLisamo]

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i need to start going to check.....

 

[HennysMom]

ouchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

oh my - a shared well - never heard of that either. Its illegal to share wells here in VA (or at least it is now). You must have your own water source (well) even though you pull out of the same aquifer.

We have a deep well that pulls 10 gallons a minute but... again, we tap the same aquifer everyone else does (as most people with wells in the same location do) - so in you using alot of water, it causes the aquifer to drop signifcantly; this can also cause your neighbors to lose water as well. On average it takes a water shed a day to recover from serious loss of water, but that depends on how much rain you've had as well given the water trickles down. You should be okay, but it may take a while to recover based on whatever your GPM is - so be careful using water the next few days.

 

[azelgin]

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Arizona has some unusual rules reguarding wells. If you have less than a certain size parcel, the permit is issued by the county, which in our area, is a pain to deal with. They look at the proximity of your proposed well to other wells in the area. If your acreage is over a certain amount, the permit is rejected and sent to the state, which is much better to deal with.

Our neighbor are on 4 acre parcels (there are about 10 houses) connected to a community water system. We are on larger acreage with our own well. I watch the well static level (gives an idea on aquafer storage) from year to year and it is up 40' form when it was drilled. Our well produces about 60 gpm, but we limited the pump horsepower to give us only 30 gpm. We could irrigate for pasture, but electricty costs make it cheaper to buy our hay instead. Colorado river water in Yuma goes for as little as $6 for 350,000 gallons. No way I can get it out of the ground for that price.

 

[DawnSuiter]

ya know, it's just not something I ever considered before the "catastrophe". This is my first life experience with a well but beside that, I live within half a mile of the French Broad River... it didn't help though.

Suddenly being without water is scary, losing it for days and weeks is a nighmare, NO DOUBT

 

[rufus]

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Arizona has some unusual rules reguarding wells. If you have less than a certain size parcel, the permit is issued by the county, which in our area, is a pain to deal with. They look at the proximity of your proposed well to other wells in the area. If your acreage is over a certain amount, the permit is rejected and sent to the state, which is much better to deal with.

Our neighbor are on 4 acre parcels (there are about 10 houses) connected to a community water system. We are on larger acreage with our own well. I watch the well static level (gives an idea on aquafer storage) from year to year and it is up 40' form when it was drilled. Our well produces about 60 gpm, but we limited the pump horsepower to give us only 30 gpm. We could irrigate for pasture, but electricty costs make it cheaper to buy our hay instead. Colorado river water in Yuma goes for as little as $6 for 350,000 gallons. No way I can get it out of the ground for that price.

Just out of curiosity, how deep is your well? Some places in Arizona you could drill forever and not get water.

Rufus

 

[azelgin]

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I'm very lucky. It's only 220'. Static level was at 60 feet last November. I worked a ranch just over the border in NM. Their well was 110' deep with 1500 GPM!