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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wild water
  • Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:22:02 -0600

I would've like to have met the people involved in making the well. Don't you know someone with good diviner's ability figured that placement out. My neighbor, the one that cut all the trees, tried to drill a well in line with mine and got nothing after 200 feet. This is a skill I'd love to learn. I have a feeling this river is running below my house, mostly from the size of the trees surrounding it.

Back in college, I took an interesting class in "Urban Geology" that touched on how to read a landscape. It taught things like how to look at tree growth and tell if hillsides are shifting. I looked at a house for sale once on another river that supposedly had never flooded, but I could tell by the types of sedges growing in the yard there had been water. When you know an area's pioneer species, you can tell where there's been disturbance and fire. I have been thinking about working up a course for real estate agents or prospective home buyers, who always seem interested when I start pointing this kind of stuff out.

--Sage


On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:28:43 -0700
Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:44 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

The well is about six paces north from my kitchen door
(and the infamous shell of the ancient septic tank one
pace out the same door). There's a "mountain" to the east
and the land slopes from the mountain to the river to the
west. Looking into the well, the cavern is on all four
sides and doesn't appear to have a downhill side, but the
water flows east to west (although the river itself flows
north to south).

Ah, so the diggers just opened the top of the waterway area.

It would be interesting to see if I could have artesian
flow into the house instead of gravity, or electricity.
What about a pipe with metal "wings" or a scoop like
appendage at the bottom that could direct the flow into
the pipe?

If Tvo were still with us he would write a long post detailing all the possibilities.

Nothing I know that will lift that water except a pump. There are many, both ancient and modern. Now, should you decide to become an expert on pumps, we would all be most grateful.
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