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It’s official, we have water!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

After 5 or more years of rationing, our water is now hooked up as of 2:45
PM, the backhoe has left the building and our old shallow well buried. We
will be flushing the system over two days and in about two weeks we will
have the water tested. Will be draining and flushing the [...]

We have water…

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

It was dark before the drillers finished, but their initial test indicates well over 100 gallons per minute. This is an incredible amount of water! We would have been happy with 2 or 3 gallons per minute.
Here is a photo of the screen about to be dropped into the hole. I used [...]

Drilling a water well: I hope it goes, well…well!

Friday, December 1st, 2006

The drillers called me this morning and said they had a frozen water truck problem and could not come out until it was thawed. They said they might make it today. So I went out and tool a few photos of the idle drilling truck and the proposed drill site. Oh, yah, [...]