Mr. H.
Diamond Member
A funny "water" story- just to interject a bit of jocular brevity...
We rented a farm house for 15 years, drawing our water from an old well behind the house. After 5 years the well went dry. I figured water can't be that expensive (it's not) so I hired a local guy to bring a load from the city tap and dump it down the hole. Yes, water is quite cheap- but getting it to where you want it is quite expensive. I ended up spending $200/month to keep that well filled at a time when I was damned broke.
Soon, the county ran a fresh water line along the road near our house. I called the landlord and implored him to tap into it. He said he's not paying the $2,000 fee. End of that part of the story.
So after a few months, I remembered another well not too far from the house. I went and checked the pump- still working. So I bought a 100 ft. roll of plastic 1" piping and dumped that water into the well behind the house.
Stay with me here- it gets better.
This water was a bit darker and stinkier and I realized the origin well was located in an old barn lot where they used to graze cattle. So I took a sample and sent it to the local water district to be analyzed. Two days later they called me back and told me that I may as well be using water from an outhouse- the choliforms were off the chart.
That's when I called the landlord. I told him I couldn't afford to keep dumping fresh water into the well, and that other well was full of cow shit.
So... he arranged to have a new water well drilled. At the cost of.... $2,000.
The end.
We rented a farm house for 15 years, drawing our water from an old well behind the house. After 5 years the well went dry. I figured water can't be that expensive (it's not) so I hired a local guy to bring a load from the city tap and dump it down the hole. Yes, water is quite cheap- but getting it to where you want it is quite expensive. I ended up spending $200/month to keep that well filled at a time when I was damned broke.
Soon, the county ran a fresh water line along the road near our house. I called the landlord and implored him to tap into it. He said he's not paying the $2,000 fee. End of that part of the story.
So after a few months, I remembered another well not too far from the house. I went and checked the pump- still working. So I bought a 100 ft. roll of plastic 1" piping and dumped that water into the well behind the house.
Stay with me here- it gets better.
This water was a bit darker and stinkier and I realized the origin well was located in an old barn lot where they used to graze cattle. So I took a sample and sent it to the local water district to be analyzed. Two days later they called me back and told me that I may as well be using water from an outhouse- the choliforms were off the chart.
That's when I called the landlord. I told him I couldn't afford to keep dumping fresh water into the well, and that other well was full of cow shit.
So... he arranged to have a new water well drilled. At the cost of.... $2,000.
The end.