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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 10/31/2006, you wrote:
> It makes no sense to me to use potable water to irrigate golf courses
> in a desert area. But, then, it doesn't make sense to me to grow lawns
> in the desert, so that may only serve to show how out of step I am
> with the rest of the world! :-)

During the Cedar Fire three years ago, a group of houses along a ridge 
burned because there was no water.  At one time the area had several deep 
wells that supplied more than enough water for the horse and cattle ranches 
in the area.  Then the indians built a casino and bored several 
wells.  Still there was enough water, not as much but enough.  They the 
indians built a huge resort with a huge golf course.  They drilled several 
more wells and the wells on the ridge went dry as well as several of the 
expensive new wells.  Now those deeper wells are starting to run dry so 
they are trying to push through some obscure rules that will give them 
access to a San Diego City reservoir



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Subject: [Homestead] water costs.
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I will have to look up the cost, that was some time
ago.  Now that I think of it part of the difference
may have been the urban system, vs a rural system,
rural having maybe one house per mile of pipe as
opposed to several hundred in town.
We are in the process of moving a house onto our land.
We have a well on the property but I'm thinking that
installing pump ect. brobably will be more expensive
than hooking up to the rural water system,  $650
hookup fee + twice as much pipe to run out to the
road.
Any thoughts on that.
Van Dell

--- Gloria Morris <gloriamorris59 AT gmail.com> wrote:


> I have no clue how much domestic water costs,
> actually. I've been on
> wells for so many years -- I guess the last time I
> lived on city water
> was in 1989 (and that stuff was disgusting!!!!!!).
> How much does
> domestic water cost here in MO, anyhow?
>
> Gloria