wrote:
On Aug 11, 9:50 am, hk wrote:
wrote:
Dang, we got indoor plumbing again. As y'all know, our well went out
just as soon as we got into cleaning a bunch of scallops. Nobody'd
fix it on a weekend so we all went to Wacissa Spring for swimming
yesterday. Finally got a guy to come out and install a new relay. I
coulda done it myself but my wife insisted I get somebody to do it so
I wouldnt screw up my back again. However, with a messed up back, I
couldnt bury the scallop guts deep enough and the dogs got into em.
As an honorary redneck, when I lived in Florida, I went fishing a lot,
several times a week, in fact, and when I cleaned the fish, I had to
find a place to get rid of the guts and such. One of our neighbors was a
Filipina, married to a retired Navy chief. She loved fish, he did not.
So I always gave her some of my catch. After a while, she asked what I
did with the fish heads, because she wanted them...for soup.

Dan, her husband, wouldn't go near that soup, because, he said, he
didn't like fish eyeballs staring at him out of a bowl.

Anyway, to get back to what you posted, I would bury the remainder of
the guts in my wife's garden in the back yard. Our soil was very sandy,
so it was easy enough to dig deep enough holes so the critters wouldn't
get to the guts. Improved the garden, too.

We had city water, but a well for lawn watering. Dug with high pressure
water, hit the water table about 20' below the surface. That was strange
to me...never saw anything like that up north in Yankeeville.

--
"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade
and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion,
regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts
to weaken or undermine that right."

Most places in Florida, decent water (the Florida Aquafer) is down
around 80 feet.
In western NY state, wells hardly ever need to be deeper than 25 feet
in the valleys, and even on most hills.

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is
impossible to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
. ..

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle Beach
has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is impossible to
completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.


I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks and
salt bins used to make it useable. Even with new carbon filters plus the
salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still smell sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Eisboch

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
. ..

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is impossible
to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.


I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks and
salt bins used to make it useable. Even with new carbon filters plus the
salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still smell
sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Eisboch

Water comes out of my well at 7.4PH No need for a softener. We do have a
chlorine sanitizing system so there is no taste or odor. There was a sulpher
smell to the water when we first moved in but it went away when the filter
was turned on. I didn't notice any water problems at your place but then I
don't recall drinking any. ;-)

On Aug 11, 10:53*am, "Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of
Anglesea, Sir Reginald P. Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. "
wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 11, 9:50 am, hk wrote:
wrote:
Dang, we got indoor plumbing again. *As y'all know, our well went out
just as soon as we got into cleaning a bunch of scallops. *Nobody'd
fix it on a weekend so we all went to Wacissa Spring for swimming
yesterday. *Finally got a guy to come out and install a new relay. *I
coulda done it myself but my wife insisted I get somebody to do it so
I wouldnt screw up my back again. However, with a messed up back, I
couldnt bury the scallop guts deep enough and the dogs got into em.
As an honorary redneck, when I lived in Florida, I went fishing a lot,
several times a week, in fact, and when I cleaned the fish, I had to
find a place to get rid of the guts and such. One of our neighbors was a
Filipina, married to a retired Navy chief. She loved fish, he did not.
So I always gave her some of my catch. After a while, she asked what I
did with the fish heads, because she wanted them...for soup.

Dan, her husband, wouldn't go near that soup, because, he said, he
didn't like fish eyeballs staring at him out of a bowl.

Anyway, to get back to what you posted, I would bury the remainder of
the guts in my wife's garden in the back yard. Our soil was very sandy,
so it was easy enough to dig deep enough holes so the critters wouldn't
get to the guts. Improved the garden, too.

We had city water, but a well for lawn watering. Dug with high pressure
water, hit the water table about 20' below the surface. That was strange
to me...never saw anything like that up north in Yankeeville.

--
"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade
and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion,
regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts
to weaken or undermine that right."

Most places in Florida, decent water (the Florida Aquafer) is down
around 80 feet.
In western NY state, wells hardly ever need to be deeper than 25 feet
in the valleys, and even on most hills.

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. *The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is
impossible to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world. *
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I Florida, you can get water and not be in the aquafer, but it is
nasty. Believe it or not, you can even get into pockets of Iron water.
It'll stain your toilet in a couple of days! I had a friend who owned
a well drilling company in Florida.

On Aug 11, 11:29 am, wrote:
On Aug 11, 10:53 am, "Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of
Anglesea, Sir Reginald P. Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. "



wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 11, 9:50 am, hk wrote:
wrote:
Dang, we got indoor plumbing again. As y'all know, our well went out
just as soon as we got into cleaning a bunch of scallops. Nobody'd
fix it on a weekend so we all went to Wacissa Spring for swimming
yesterday. Finally got a guy to come out and install a new relay. I
coulda done it myself but my wife insisted I get somebody to do it so
I wouldnt screw up my back again. However, with a messed up back, I
couldnt bury the scallop guts deep enough and the dogs got into em.
As an honorary redneck, when I lived in Florida, I went fishing a lot,
several times a week, in fact, and when I cleaned the fish, I had to
find a place to get rid of the guts and such. One of our neighbors was a
Filipina, married to a retired Navy chief. She loved fish, he did not.
So I always gave her some of my catch. After a while, she asked what I
did with the fish heads, because she wanted them...for soup.

Dan, her husband, wouldn't go near that soup, because, he said, he
didn't like fish eyeballs staring at him out of a bowl.

Anyway, to get back to what you posted, I would bury the remainder of
the guts in my wife's garden in the back yard. Our soil was very sandy,
so it was easy enough to dig deep enough holes so the critters wouldn't
get to the guts. Improved the garden, too.

We had city water, but a well for lawn watering. Dug with high pressure
water, hit the water table about 20' below the surface. That was strange
to me...never saw anything like that up north in Yankeeville.

--
"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade
and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion,
regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts
to weaken or undermine that right."

Most places in Florida, decent water (the Florida Aquafer) is down
around 80 feet.
In western NY state, wells hardly ever need to be deeper than 25 feet
in the valleys, and even on most hills.

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is
impossible to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I Florida, you can get water and not be in the aquafer, but it is
nasty. Believe it or not, you can even get into pockets of Iron water.
It'll stain your toilet in a couple of days! I had a friend who owned
a well drilling company in Florida.

My 250' well produces water with no sulfur smell at all and no iron
taste. I know all about sulfur and iron tasting water, generally this
is from surface water, not aquifer water.

"Jim" wrote in message
...

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
. ..

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is
impossible to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.


I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks
and salt bins used to make it useable. Even with new carbon filters
plus the salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still
smell sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Eisboch

Water comes out of my well at 7.4PH No need for a softener. We do have a
chlorine sanitizing system so there is no taste or odor. There was a
sulpher smell to the water when we first moved in but it went away when
the filter was turned on. I didn't notice any water problems at your place
but then I don't recall drinking any. ;-)

When we first purchased the "Ranch House", the water was terrible. We had
the whole water conditioning system ripped out and replaced with a new
system that included a carbon filter tank. It worked fine, but needed
monthly maintenance, even though it was supposed to be fully "automatic" in
terms of regeneration.

But, you correct. We rarely drank water unless it was premixed with hops
and barley and came in a keg.

Eisboch

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:16:00 -0400, "Jim" wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
m...

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
. ..

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is impossible
to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.


I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks and
salt bins used to make it useable. Even with new carbon filters plus the
salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still smell
sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Water comes out of my well at 7.4PH No need for a softener. We do have a
chlorine sanitizing system so there is no taste or odor. There was a sulpher
smell to the water when we first moved in but it went away when the filter
was turned on. I didn't notice any water problems at your place but then I
don't recall drinking any. ;-)

One of the things I hate about the water at the kids houses is the
water is too soft.

I have real water - with calcium, iron and it's hard as a rock.

Which is the way water should be. :)

On Aug 11, 11:47*am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:16:00 -0400, "Jim" wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
m...

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
m...

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. *The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is impossible
to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world. *
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.

I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks and
salt bins used to make it useable. * Even with new carbon filters plus the
salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still smell
sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Water comes out of my well at 7.4PH No need for a softener. We do have a
chlorine sanitizing system so there is no taste or odor. There was a sulpher
smell to the water when we first moved in but it went away when the filter
was turned on. I didn't notice any water problems at your place but then I
don't recall drinking any. ;-)

One of the things I hate about the water at the kids houses is the
water is too soft.

I have real water - with calcium, iron and it's hard as a rock.

Which is the way water should be. *:)- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yup, 180 foot well The aquafir we draw from supposedly comes from up
in Canada. It has a slight damp smell to it since 95% of the houses on
this side of town went to town water almost 15 years ago..

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:16:00 -0400, "Jim" wrote:


"Eisboch" wrote in message
om...

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald
P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
. ..

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft
and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is
impossible
to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.


I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks
and
salt bins used to make it useable. Even with new carbon filters plus
the
salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still smell
sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Water comes out of my well at 7.4PH No need for a softener. We do have a
chlorine sanitizing system so there is no taste or odor. There was a
sulpher
smell to the water when we first moved in but it went away when the filter
was turned on. I didn't notice any water problems at your place but then I
don't recall drinking any. ;-)

One of the things I hate about the water at the kids houses is the
water is too soft.

I have real water - with calcium, iron and it's hard as a rock.

Which is the way water should be. :)


We put a private well in several years back. They had to go down just over
500' in order to get the flow rates they wanted.
It's used primarily for the sprinkler systems for the lawns and one of the
horse paddocks, but we also plumbed it into the pool water make up system
and the cabana's sink. I'll betcha if we had it tested, it would be purer,
better water than the town supplies to the house.

Eisboch

On Aug 11, 11:38 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Jim" wrote in message

...





"Eisboch" wrote in message
m...

"Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall, Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P.
Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. " wrote in message
m...

My problem with all water along the SE coast is they are way to soft and
you can taste and actually smell the limestone. The water in Myrtle
Beach has got to the worst water I have ever tasted, and it is
impossible to completely rinse off in the shower.

On the other hand, NYC has the best tasting water in the world.
Which is why they have the best tasting pizza.

I had forgotten about Florida well water and the contraptions of tanks
and salt bins used to make it useable. Even with new carbon filters
plus the salt and something else that I can't remember, you could still
smell sulfur.

I miss the mid-winter weather, but I don't miss the water.

Eisboch

Water comes out of my well at 7.4PH No need for a softener. We do have a
chlorine sanitizing system so there is no taste or odor. There was a
sulpher smell to the water when we first moved in but it went away when
the filter was turned on. I didn't notice any water problems at your place
but then I don't recall drinking any. ;-)

When we first purchased the "Ranch House", the water was terrible. We had
the whole water conditioning system ripped out and replaced with a new
system that included a carbon filter tank. It worked fine, but needed
monthly maintenance, even though it was supposed to be fully "automatic" in
terms of regeneration.

But, you correct. We rarely drank water unless it was premixed with hops
and barley and came in a keg.

Eisboch

Our place in Wyoming is at 8000' and does not have a well. The
probability of hitting water is poor. Our neighbor drilled 1500' and
only gets about 40 gal/day. Drilling costs are over $30/ft. SO, the
solution is to have a big cistern and to haul water. You cannot haul
any more than about 300 gal at a time because the road up the mountain
is seriously treacherous in winter and even in summer is scary hauling
a shifting load of water. This means you learn to use water as if you
are living on a boat.
We want to put in the cistern this next summer but we disagree on the
size. She wants a 3000 gal one and I want the 1750 gal one. They
have to be buried at least a foot under ground and this is in a place
where we are likely to hit rock 2' down, meaning blasting which is
expensive. Furhtermore, such a buried cistern must be kept about 1/4
full all the time meaning I have to haul a lot of loads just for the
minimum. Run-off from the roof of any moderate sized cabin would be
only enough integrated over a year to provide enough water for a
couple of months.
As we cannot agree on this or even on the size of cabin to build, I
will simply use the existing 100 yr old log cabin (430 sq ft, huge for
that time period) but I plan to add a 500 gal above ground tank for
summer use.