On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:03:33 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:50:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 11:38:23 AM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:21:50 -0400, Dave Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >On 2016-10-11 7:25 AM, wrote:
>>> >> The heavy storm arrived here yesterday and last night, mixed in with
>>> >> another storm and although it has brought much needed rain for filling
>>> >> wells (apparently record amounts in one go) many people, including my
>>> >> son, are without power and lots of trees are down - my grandson lost a
>>> >> beautiful old apple tree - we were sitting under it for shade a few
>>> >> weekends ago, but it's gone now. Took part of the garage with it.
>>> >>
>>> >> Maximum damage has been done up in Cape Breton, all schools closed
>>> >> today.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >I will pass on the wind but we could sure use some of that rain. I have
>>> >a dug well and a cistern. I collect some water off the roof, but most
>>> >of it is delivered and at $55 FOR 1500 gallons, we take it easy on water
>>> >use when we are on the cistern. Some summers I have to switch to
>>> >cistern in August and by September the well is back up up. This year I
>>> >switched to cistern in June. I tried to switch back last week but it was
>>> >sucking air. I took the well cover off last week and was surprised to
>>> >see it is still dry. It is not just low. It is dry. It will take a lot
>>> >of rain to permeate the ground enough to get it filled up again.
>>>
>>> That must be a very shallow well. I wouldn't want to drink ground
>>> water. I have two drilled wells (six inch), each almost 200' deep.
>>> Reminds me, It hasn't rained here for about three weeks, time to water
>>> my new trees and grass seed.
>>
>>Who's going to pay to dig farther than they have to?
>
>
>It's very obvious with that remark that you know absolutely nothing
>about wells.

Most of the dug wells here are very old wells dating back a couple of
centuries, there were no drilled wells at that point.