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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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