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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Does this idea stink?
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:04:47 -0500

No, I'm deathly allergic to fish and shellfish. We live five minues from a crystal clear river..if I should ever overcome the problem and be starving to death, I'd get my fish from there. (I actually enjoy fly fishing).

We'd like a place to store winter squash, potatoes, onions, our home canning jars, etc. Most of the pioneer homes around here had 'spring houses' for this...square above ground concrete rooms with the top "floor" being a container for the water pumped from the well. Our pioneer well is outside the pump house with a large ground level metal plate covering it weighted in place with some large stones. The hole is rectangular, about the size it would take a man with a pick axe to carve, and about 40 feet deep with water flowing like a river in a sheet across a deeper pool on the bottom of it. So there is also the consideration of building something over the well for cool storage, maybe attached to the well house like an addition. The water comes out of the ground here at 65 degrees. Would this be a better solution?

--Sage

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:37:08 -0500
Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:34 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

This thing was custom poured, not prefab, probably when
the house was built. The opening is roughly a 3 foot
square lid about two feet away from the house and about
six feet from the kitchen door. It's at least six feet
deep, maybe a 10 foot square. The wall away from the house
is perpendicular to the ground, but the wall opposite it
slopes to somewhere under the house. The field line that
once drained it's former function was clay pipe that
collapsed (thus, the problem). As a container it appears
relatively water tight (maybe good for a septic, not good
for a cellar?). If it leaks, it is minimal as we tested
our well when all this came to light and they told us
there was not enough nitrogen in the sample to have been
contaminated by the septic tank.

Do you like to eat fish?

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