[Homestead] Bev -- incoming

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 5 11:16:44 EDT 2008



Gene GeRue wrote:

> 
> Yeah, while I was playing with Google Earth earlier I did a search on  
> your signature latitude, so now I have a marker labeled Bev&Ron. Btw,  
> that number you have down there in your sig points to woods. Is that  
> your building cluster just north, at the south edge of a large field?

Yes, that's my pasture.  I've sent some altered aerial pics to help you 
identify it.

> 
>> At least now, 100% of
>> the sediment is caught by filter.  It's cool.  Over time, I'm told  
>> that
>> we may not need a filter at all.
> 
> Excellent. Out in west Arizona, my parents' 100' well needed a filter  
> all the time, up to when the town put in a system and shut down the  
> wells.

They used high pressure water to 'drill' the hole, and that pushed all 
the silt back into the karst. I think it will take multiple years for us 
to get enough rainwater to wash out all the silt.  We'll see.

Bev

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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
34.498N	85.076W	   Bev is Earth, Ron is Sky					


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