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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gas explosions
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:10:28 -0500

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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