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Julie Bove[_2_]

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/15/2017 7:16 PM, wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 17:56:26 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/15/2017 5:34 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 07:05:19 +1000, Bruce >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 16:52:36 -0400, jmcquown >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/15/2017 4:26 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>>> On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 12:21:41 PM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Wells? Gallons per minute? Most houses in the US don't have
>>>>>>>> wells.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> About 15 million households in the U.S. depend on a private well
>>>>>>> for their water. That's not chump change.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll have to take your word for it. Never had a private well to
>>>>>> supply
>>>>>> water in any house I've ever lived in. That's stretching from CA to
>>>>>> NJ
>>>>>> to OH and on down to a few southern states. <shrug>
>>>>>
>>>>> You're a total city type. I bet there are more wells in the
>>>>> countryside.
>>>>
>>> Bruce, please tell me exactly what you know about the areas where I've
>>> lived all my life. I'd love to hear it.
>>>
>>>> Of course there are - on a continent with vast distances you're never
>>>> going to find water in pipes across the whole of it!!
>>>
>>> Don't be silly. I never said there were water pipes all across the
>>> country. Just that I've never lived in a house that had a well.
>>> Sheesh.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>>>> Our house in Shad Bay, only 20 minutes from Halifax was on a well.
>>>> Ours was great,
>>>> a drilled well, 375 ft deep but full of iron so we had a water
>>>> conditioner through which the water passed first, used to have to
>>>> remember to add a bag of salt to it every so often.
>>>>
>> "Most houses in the US don't have wells."
>>
>> I suspect that is far from correct in the USA, as it would be in
>> Canada. Ten minutes from the city and it's a well and septic tank
>> more often than not.
>>
> Believe what you want. I'm going by personal experience. I've never had
> a well for water or a septic tank.

Our house in Wichita was on a septic tank but it changed to sewer before we
sold it. The house that I grew up in here was on septic but changed to sewer
many years ago. My MIL's house in PA was septic but now sewer. Most here are
sewer but there are a few still on septic. Don't know of any wells around
here but... I was looking up Bothell statistics and we have 58 residences
that use coal or coke for heating. I do find that hard to believe.