Posted: 7/26/2016 12:33:04 AM EDT
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How is the situation with respect to water wells. It's kind of dry country compared to what I'm used to, but I like having a well as opposed to a water system.
My well here in East Texas is over 200 feet, but well depths are not very uniform in my area. |
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My grandfather's house outside Abbott always had a couple of shallow, hand dugs wells. I don't think he got city water till 1990. Dad said he remembered the wells going dry one summer and they had to haul it in. After that, my grandfather had a large stock pond dug with a dragline. They dug another shallow well, maybe 20ft deep next to the pond and kind of trenched a leach field from the pond to the well and filled it with gravel. He said they never ran out after that.
I drank that water all the time growing up when we visited. Other than filtering it a bit with screens, I'm pretty sure they didn't add anything to it or treat it. It never did taste like any other water I ever drank, but we never got sick or anything. My grandfather didn't like city water, but he tied into it anyway. As far as deep wells, I'm not sure. In Ellis Co, the deeps wells are salty and taste like shit. Everyone wants surface water from a reservoir. |
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Depends on where you live. Wells depth in the hill country vary a lot. Where I used to live our well was close to 500ft, some people over 700ft. During 2012-2013 we went through a very dry spell and many people with shallow wells were going dry. Some people had tanks put in and water trucked in. It all depends on the particular location, plan accordingly because it is expensive as hell to drill.
What I did find entertaining was during the drought, those that had shitty wells and wells going dry began to campaign for well metering and/or putting in tank storage and piping systems to be able to control water usage. Its very interesting to see how quickly people turn to regulate/control others due to their own misfortunes or in many cases shit planning. Its not my fault you have an old ass well and never put money aside to re-drill or extend depth due to changing water tables. Granted some ppl will always be a-holes and pulling water for commercial applications from shared underground reservoirs, but that's life. |
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OP, just confirming you're talking about Hill "County" rather than hill "country"? If so, you can get to good water in many parts without having to go too deep. Yeah, I should have said Hillsborough or something. I knew that might be a problem. Seems like a high percentage of the listings are places on water systems. I enjoy having my own well, despite the occasional costs involved. Thanks for the replies, all. |
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in Texas you can dig 2 wells 10 ft apart and have a gusher in one and dust bowl in the other..most
wells in old homesteads are 20 to 30' cisterns gathering run off shallow water and they dry out in dry years.. I have one that was empty for 6 years,,full this year..I dug a 100K gal stock tank, never been dry. |