We used to live on a block (73 acres) in some land that was mostly limestone cave country. Our block was in a valley that had caves to wazoo 'upstream' from us.
Our well...we call them bores over here, was 75 feet deep, but was in water at 45. The underground water in this area was different to the typical Artesian Basin water. In most places, water tables or other underground water masses lay more or less in a horizontal plane.
Where we were, the limestone fissures in the underlying bedrock were more vertical due to its past life. The area back millions of years ago was part of a coral reef that, as millennia passed, got turned on its edge and forced upward. You could drill in one spot and find nothing, then drill 6 feet to one side of that hole and find some huge 1000 gallon an hour supply.
But, the water did have its problems. It was very clean, but it was also very high in calcium from the limestone that it was in. It was OK for crop water, but not to drink. It was also perfectly fine for showering in.
We used two 25 litre (5 gallon) containers and filled them from a good supply in the local village.
I'm stoned and rambling again

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Feels good, doesn't it?

The well-drillers had to go down 798' to hit 3gpm for us, and I'm a bit paranoid that what happened to a neighbor will happen to us -- theirs went dry. Of course, they're only part-timers in our neighborhood and they've got their "lawn" (if you want to call it that) on a timer and are watering every fucking day. It pisses me off, yeah, it's their water but they bitched a blue streak at me because of where the builder and well-drillers put our well. Um, yeah, Lefty, it's not my problem, you had a chance to buy the land and you didn't, so don't get mad at me because we liked it enough to buy it.

It's full of lime and iron for sure (our clay is very red), and leaves a thick layer of mulm in our toilet tanks.


Good morning to you and your lady! 'Tis a fine day to go diving, yeah?

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Hehe, we had flowstone growing on the back of our toilet bowl...

798 feet!!?? Wow, long way for 3gph Seamaiden...bummer. Then you have to contend with fools using there U/G water to wet grass? Double bummer.

Morning to you two as well. Make sure you say to the guy on your left there. Oh. and enjoy the diving today if I'm not too late (gotta check these time zones).

It's alright, I'm just a little brain dead. We're in the same timezone

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Hehe, we had flowstone growing on the back of our toilet bowl...

798 feet!!?? Wow, long way for 3gph Seamaiden...bummer. Then you have to contend with fools using there U/G water to wet grass? Double bummer.

Morning to you two as well. Make sure you say to the guy on your left there. Oh. and enjoy the diving today if I'm not too late (gotta check these time zones).

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this is what i was talking about.........thanks for postin the links


unfortunetly im hooked up to public water but i dont drink it, nor would i feed it to my plants......

why does the government allow these kinda things to happen? purposely killing people? they kno what all these chemicals do so what the hell....ya kno?

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No, not purposely killing people.

What makes a lot of these confusing things easier for me to understand is to do one thing, and one thing only: FOLLOW THE MONEY. If someone benefits, financially, from a given action or restriction, then chances are that's the force behind something. Otherwise it makes no sense at all, because it would become like a parasite that goes too far and kills off its host.

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Very succinct Seamaiden. More examples of this are tobacco and Monsanto's GM glyphosate resistant crops.

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Oooo.. yeah.. jeez, the list is extensive (and depressing at times), isn't it?

I got flashed by some cuttlefish today. And we didn't have the camera with us!

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