Harry Krause wrote:
Bert Robbins wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message

The plus side is that there is only one more month of really cold
temperatures before things start to warm up. The cost of natural gas has
to go down by next winter.........at least I hope it does.
I'm in a slightly worse position, in that we have our gas delivered by
truck, and pay a slight premium for that. We have a 500-gallon tank buried
in the back yard. We use the gas for rangetop cooking, to heat hot water,
in one of the fireplaces, and as a backup for one of our heatpumps. My
wife grabbed the bill, else I'd know what the per unit price is, but I did
notice it had more than doubled. Grrrr.

You have your gas, presumably propane, tank burried in your backyard?

The only take you would likely have buried in your backyard is a fuel oil
tank. And, if your house was built recently, as you assert, you fuel oil
tank will be above ground.


I think it is wonderful that so many posters on rec.boats are so damned
sure of what they think they know.

Yes, my cooking-hot water-fireplace gas tank is buried in the ground, as
are virtually all the similar tanks in this area. And it's not fuel oil.
It's gas. We don't use fuel oil.

The tanks are buried underground. There is an access built into the top
of the tank that looks a bit like a submarine's conning tower. It sticks
up out of the ground about 8-10". It has a removable lid. Inside are
some valves and a "fill" device."


The water table in your area has got to be very close to the surface?

Uh, no. Not at all.

Yeah, Harry, you know that you just can't possibly know more about your
own personal situation as someone who doesn't know anything about your
property. The water table in a given area flucuates at certain levels,
but stays pretty constant in those parameters. The ground however,
doesn't. They're called hills and valleys.