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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Here's the lastest stories, they describe "a concrete slab above a water 
well", whatever that means:
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090114/NEWS01/901140381
http://solomonswords.blogspot.com/2009/01/susquehanna-county-water-well-blows-up.html
http://solomonswords.blogspot.com/2009/01/susquehanna-county-water-well-blows-up.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gas explosions


> As you know, water freezes in your neighborhood in wintertime. A well
> house is typically built like a cellar with four poured or block laid
> walls and a solid roof with access. The well casing comes up into the
> bottom of the cellar. All water connections are made down there and
> the water pipe goes into the house via an underground ditch. Thus, no
> freezing of water lines.
>
> This explosion is the sort of thing that causes building codes to be
> changed. The pressure switches may one day be required to be outside
> of the well house.
>
> For your amusement I will tell you that as I awoke this morning I felt
> like smacking my head. I had read the words "well exploded" but I had
> seen the photo of the remains of the well house. Duh.
>
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>
> > > Quite right. I was sidetracked by the misleading reporting that the
> > > well exploded and was envisioning a broken wire at the pump but that
> > > is problemmatical because it is under water. It was not the well, it
> > > was the well house (pit) that exploded, thus using up all the gas
> > > from
> > > the traveling bubble. No gas was found in the water because it was
> > > all
> > > burned. For now.
> >
> > Well house (pit)? What's that?
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > Tioga Co. PA
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