On Dec 7, 10:47*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:15:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
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> >On Dec 6, 5:05 pm, SpaghettiWestern >
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> >> On Dec 6, 6:39 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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> >> > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:12:24 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
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> >> > >On Dec 6, 9:57 am, SpaghettiWestern >
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> >> > >> On Dec 6, 2:42 pm, Cindy Hamilton > wrote:
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> >> > >> > On Dec 5, 5:18 pm, SpaghettiWestern >
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> >> > >> > > I often wonder how people in Europe survive their constant thirst.
> >> > >> > > They eat sausages, salty bacon and cold cuts, all sodium laden. They
> >> > >> > > have no clean, fresh, crisp, clean water to drink. We are in America
> >> > >> > > so fortunate to have cold clean water are we not?
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> >> > >> > A very feeble effort. No better than a 1.1 on the Troll-o-Meter..
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> >> > >> I see. So in your opinion salt does not create thirst? Europe has
> >> > >> the Danube and the wonderful Rhine river to rely upon for drinking
> >> > >> water. And YOU call me a troll?
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> >> > >Yep.
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> >> > >I get my drinking water from the Detroit River. Where does
> >> > >yours come from?
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> >> > Out of a hole in the ground...
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> >> That's right. It's also known as a well.
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> >I had one of those. *It stank of sulfur,
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> Most water odors are easy to eliminate, usually with charcoal
> filtration and/or aeration.... most times charcoal filtration is
> sufficient.
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> >so I hooked up to the municipal water supply.
> >Much better.
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> Most municipal water companies supply well water, the same local water
> just from a larger well or a series of wells... they remove the odor
> by aeration before distribution... you could have done the same for
> much less cost than buying your water from the municipal water
> company. *

My municipal water company supplies surface water from the
Detroit River.

I didn't mention it, because it was only tangentially related,
but we decided to go with city water/sewer because the
septic system was about 60 years old, and the land
won't perk to modern standards. Rather than wait
for the system to fail and have to take action in a
hurry, we just decided to go with city water/sewer.

> Private wells cost money too (to operate and maintain) but
> over time significantly less than buying municipal water by the
> gallon. *So what did you do with your private well... I would still
> keep it operational, use that water for outside irrigation, car
> washing, etc., will save you paying for all those gallons. *

We wanted to.

Unfortunately, the outfit that trenched out to the street nicked
the line between the well and the house, and it wasn't
apparent until the sinkhole formed in the front yard.

We don't do much irrigation outside. The lawn is on
its own, and the only thing I water regularly is the
tomato plants. Both of them.

>It's not a
> good idea to stop using a well or it can fill in with silt which would
> be costly to pump out.

We had it filled with gunnite (or something) by the company
that drilled it in the first place. Our county requires unused
wells to be capped.

Cindy Hamilton