On Sunday, September 4, 2011 1:14:36 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 04/09/2011 1:22 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
> > This was way north Wisconsin in the 50's and the cottage only had well
> > water. It tasted lovely and was so sparkly clear.
>
>
> I had to chuckle one time when we had a guest from "the city" telling me
> how good my well water was. He was fed up with the water at home because
> it was chlorinated. Fact was that our well water had been tested and
> condemned. We had to put a water purification system in. It consisted of
> a filter, a chlorinater and a holding tank. There was probably more
> chlorine in my well water than there was in his city water.
>
>
> I have just come back from the hardware store and installad a filter in
> my cistern. It is just a temporary measure, a filter connected to a hose
> and 1/3 hp submerged pump to circulate and filter the cistern water. It
> has been sitting there for a long time and it's pretty murky.

A cistern and a well are not the same thing. In the Ozarks, the well water is lovely, but the water for drinking really should be filtered. The city water in St. Louis tastes fine. The stream we kayaked on Friday is one that I'd feel OK drinking unfiltered after a 5 minute boil. http://www.nps.gov/ozar/index.htm

--Bryan