On Oct 26, 10:49 am, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:51:59 -0000, penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
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|Wow! Like I said, in western NY you can get very good water at 20 in
|most valley areas.

Incredible! Around here 20 feet would only get you the effluent of the
neighbor's septic tank.

Yeah, these are in the woods, so your neighbor's septic would be
several hundred feet, if not miles apart! Another thing is there is so
much spring water in the area, that some people even on high hills get
water that shallow, if not a springhouse above ground! There was a
farm up the county road from where we lived that had a springhouse on
the hill and all of the water for the cows and house was gravity fed.
That water is so pure that when a company that was going to bottle it
bought the farm, the EPA or some such tested the water and it needed
nothing, but not to be taken aback, they are going to make them RO (or
something) it anyway. My brother's place has a dug well, it's about 25
feet deep, and the water table is about 6 feet down!

Locally, most wells are 200-250' and just northwest of where I work,
1000' wells are fairly common!

Now that's deep!