[Homestead] Wild water

eureka at hctc.net eureka at hctc.net
Thu Nov 6 11:22:02 EST 2008


I would've like to have met the people involved in making 
the well. Don't you know someone with good diviner's 
ability figured that placement out. My neighbor, the one 
that cut all the trees, tried to drill a well in line with 
mine and got nothing after 200 feet. This is a skill I'd 
love to learn. I have a feeling this river is running 
below my house, mostly from the size of the trees 
surrounding it.

Back in college, I took an interesting class in "Urban 
Geology" that touched on how to read a landscape. It 
taught things like how to look at tree growth and tell if 
hillsides are shifting. I looked at a house for sale once 
on another river that supposedly had never flooded, but I 
could tell by the types of sedges growing in the yard 
there had been water. When you know an area's pioneer 
species, you can tell where there's been disturbance and 
fire. I have been thinking about working up a course for 
real estate agents or prospective home buyers, who always 
seem interested when I start pointing this kind of stuff 
out.

--Sage


On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:28:43 -0700
  Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:44 PM, <eureka at hctc.net> wrote:
> 
>> The well is about six paces north from my kitchen door
>> (and the infamous shell of the ancient septic tank one
>> pace out the same door). There's a "mountain" to the 
>>east
>> and the land slopes from the mountain to the river to 
>>the
>> west. Looking into the well, the cavern is on all four
>> sides and doesn't appear to have a downhill side, but 
>>the
>> water flows east to west (although the river itself 
>>flows
>> north to south).
> 
> Ah, so the diggers just opened the top of the waterway 
>area.
>>
>> It would be interesting to see if I could have artesian
>> flow into the house instead of gravity, or electricity.
>> What about a pipe with metal "wings" or a scoop like
>> appendage at the bottom that could direct the flow into
>> the pipe?
> 
> If Tvo were still with us he would write a long post 
>detailing all the  
> possibilities.
> 
> Nothing I know that will lift that water except a pump. 
>There are  
> many, both ancient and modern. Now, should you decide to 
>become an  
> expert on pumps, we would all be most grateful.
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