Quote: I cant remember the reason now, but the company chose that depth for a specific reason. Part of it was water pressure; I suspect it might be that there is a house every 2-3 acres along the roads that need water from a well. I remember the well company taking about what the flow per minutes was but not all these years later I cant remember.
No public water here. I try to NOT need a drink while at the library or at the school-- yuck, it smells and tastes of chlorine. I recently heard that chlorine is not good for the natural bugs in our gut-- begs the question what does the water cycle look like in a human body. DOes the chlorinated water actually get into the gut area and kill off the microbes. . . but I digress.
If you remember the name of that devise that pumps drop me a pm. THen I can research it.
IWe buy bottled water-- for the bottles!! mY kids use them over and over and then lose them! Get a weeks use out of each one: refiledl at home with clean unchlorinated water.
Ya, seems like deep well water is pretty cold.
I still get angry when I think that my mother filled in her hand dug well outside the kitchen door. Seriously??? I cant imagine why she would want to pay for town water!!!! DOH!!!
300 feet is the approximate limit to how far a windmill can pump a column of water straight out of the ground.
The pump device is a hand pump.... youve seen them on westerns... they have a hook to hook a bucket to so you can fill one with water.
they still make them.
I have seen one like this set right in the kitchen to serve as the water faucet They have about a 25 foot limitation on how far they can draw the water. But if you placed your storage tank next to the house there would be no issue.
deb
THis is great Deb!!
I am remembering years ago as when I was a babysitter for a former teacher of mine,a nd she would take the family out to an island ( no electricity) and the wonderful old farm house had a cook stove and the kitchen sink was a large deep sink with a pump at one end-- a hand pump. She usually did the cooking while I entertained the 4 kids. I wish I had paid more attention to how these things worked.
Just talked to DH, he doesnt think we have an artesian. boooo lol