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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:04 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net> <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> 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?

If you do now or think you might in the future like to follow feng  
shui principles, I believe one of them is that all old wells should be  
sealed. Something bubbling in my gray stuff says feng shui  
practitioners believe that water carries energy away.