Gareth J
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That's gigantic!! What were they feeding, a city?!
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That's gigantic!! What were they feeding, a city?!
Very true....each to their own....sheds may be more interesting to some than holes in the ground
thinfourth
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My biggest worry would be getting a suction pipe down the well without damaging the floor.
As to drinking it I am pretty certain it will taste better then the dilute bleach that is public water as our well water is lovely
Silly idea
A piece of stainless steel pipe coming from the ceiling and down into the well. Hide it in the ceiling and then to the pump package. If you get a decent pump it should work. Or run a large diameter pipe with a power cord and a hose inside it and use a submersible pump
He has about 20 acres and loads of orange trees. Portugal gets some severe droughts but they have never run dry.
Kayos
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Pipe already installed and ready for a pump to connect
You say you are worried re the 6 monthly bulb changes.
Every system will need maintenance & inspections regularly.
Test it.
Se what needs doing to it then spec system to treat it.
Just hitting it with UV will only kill bugs not alter trace elements / metals that can be just as hazardous.
Every system will need maintenance & inspections regularly.
Test it.
Se what needs doing to it then spec system to treat it.
Just hitting it with UV will only kill bugs not alter trace elements / metals that can be just as hazardous.
Kayos
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I’m worried they won’t keep up to changing the bulbs, previous plumber told them it just needs UV, I’ve insisted it’s tested so I can order the correct treatment system
Gritineye
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Our well is sited about 3 yards from where the cess pit used to be. Original very old well as bits of the house are 1650. Well was still in use in the 1960's as was the cess pit
Well now only used for watering the garden, cess pit retired and remote Klargester installed.
On our place when I was a kid the well was 12ft deep in sandstone, never dried out even in a drought year, yellow water when it rained, hand pump.
The old brick septic tank was the other side of the house by a steam and floating in a sandy bog, I recon the tank and bottom of the well were about the same level, no one died.
winchman
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Remember the UV doesnt kill things only disrupts the DNA to stop them reproducing, you can then filter the stuff out but then have the issue of stuff living in the stuff stuck in the filter.
This is quite a good article
http://www.water-research.net/Waterlibrary/privatewell/UVradiation.pdf
This is quite a good article
http://www.water-research.net/Waterlibrary/privatewell/UVradiation.pdf
Farside
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When I bought this property, there was a borehole around the back which I installed a pump to and for the first couple of years was drinking it quite happily. It tasted great, and a lot of people had remarked that the borehole water here was regarded locally as being rather good.
I noticed the kettle was furring up a fair bit, but when the limescale started to assume a green tinge I got slightly concerned. Turned out the water was bloody high in iron and other minerals, so instead of forking out well over a thousand quid for a whole shebang filtration kit I simply coughed up 250 quid and got connected to the council main pipe which runs alongs my frontage. So much for the free water dream.
My decision was proved right, as fairly soon after not drinking the borehole water I noticed I felt better - not by a huge amount, but enough. Who knows what was going on with that water, but it wasn't as great as the locals remembered it being, that's for sure.
Anyone want to buy a borehole?
