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Bev - double-thanks for the reminder.
 
I get so caught up in the your-water-my-water thing sometimes that I forget  
San Bernardino County has long been known as the meth capital of the Western  
World, and the Sheriff's Department (God Bless 'em - there are only three of  
them assigned to the whole area between Barstow and Stateline and Needles) 
does  their best to bust these labs, but they turn out the contents right out 
into the  sand, and it goes you-know-where. 
 
These facilities are mostly housed in abandoned / vandalized shells of  
cabins, mobile homes, etc. that are long forgotten by their owners. Or the  
owners 
have died and their offspring - somewhere in Chicago -  just pay the  
property 
taxes year after year and to hell with  wherever-is-Newberry-Springs?
 
This is aside from - and in addition to - whatever is being dumped by the  
meth-heads themselves, and added to all the cr*p being filtered downward by 
the  
Marine Logistics Base couple miles down the road. An ongoing bone of 
contention.  It really saddens me to drive by the base and know that 
individual 
solders /  Marines would never do this to the land, but the hierarchy 
dictates, so 
forward  we must go. These guys all have kids, and moms and dads, and if they 
knew this  toxic junk was going down in their own neighborhoods, we'd have 
another kind of  war on our hands.
 
There was even a semi-load of chlorine that did a belly-up east of here a  
few years ago, and nobody got around to telling us until the chemical(s) had  
worked their way coupla hundred feet down. 
 
I am kind of...in charge of...welcoming newcomers to the area - and I do  
seriously believe that a water-testing kit ought to be included in our 
community  
'welcome packet'. If I were moving a family here, especially small children, 
I'd  be really upset later on to find out later that the elementary school 
had 
 been evacuated twice in the last few years, and the children are now being 
asked  to bring bottled water from home, since the school drinking fountains 
are not  safe.
 
At the present time, there's only - to my knowledge - one qualified,  
certified Master Plumber in the area - and he does only water - not soil  
analysis...and, to me, the two must needs go hand in hand?
 
Bring on the piggies. Nothing on four legs ever wrote me a bad check or  
brought my truck back on 'Empty".
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/7/2009 9:02:54 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:

If you  dug or drilled a well, I think it would need to be well protected 
from  floodwater contamination...just a thought.



Robert Walton  wrote:
> Rainfall collection is a good one. Also the water table is  shallow in
> most places, so you could dig or drill your own irrigation  well.
> 
> In some parts of Florida the dry season is long, so you  need a big storage.
> 
> Rob-Va
> 
> On 1/7/09,  EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Rainfall  collection.
>>
>> Robert Walton wrote:
>>> The  main thing that people are mistaken about with Florida is the  dry
>>> and rainy seasons. If you look at the temps in summer,  they are not
>>> always that hot compared to inland. The humidity  is the biggest
>>> problem.  If you look at the winter temps,  it seems like you could be
>>> growing a lot of garden crops.  Problem is the lack of rain. Winter is
>>> the dry  season.
>>>
>>> The biggest need is a way to get water  to the garden or pasture in the
>>> winter. Being homestead  minded, how do you get the water there without
>>> electricity is  the issue to be addressed.
>>>
>>> Rob -  Va
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