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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
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