BoatBanter.com - OT. dry well :(

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:
|
|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.

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

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The dug well was there when we bought the house. FHA said that I had
to drill a well so I sold my Jeep and started calling drillers. In the
mean time I had my water tested and it was fine so I wrote a letter to
the commish in hartford and told him that if I was made of money I
would not be looking for a FHA loan! Along with the lab results and
other info available. To everyones surprise he a(commissioner) agreed
and waived the new well. My liar, the real estate agents, a few folks
at FHA and even the loan company were floored, to the point where a
couple of them asked me to give them copies of the letter to use for
other clients and such, telling me they had never seen a well waived.
I did have to sign a responsibility release form for the FHA that they
were not responsible for the well. It's been a little over 20 years so
I guess I got a good reprieve as a young homeowner, time to pay the
piper.

Followup. I am waiting for the local officials to do a little research
for me. It is not their responsibility, but I know most of them and
they know I am not currently resident so they are checking some maps
and such. Another friend whos family has been around for generations I
got in contact today told me he thinks that if I move my well from the
front of the property to the back I can avoid about 150 feet of ledge
and pound through 60 or so feet of clay and hit a gravel aquafur
(sp?). Of course he can't promise me anything, but he is going by what
he knows about the area.

So anyway, anywhere from 60 to 200 feet, and a long lead time because
there is a lot of this going around according to all the drillers I am
talking to. My tennants are long time friends and real troopers, lucky
for me, this could have gotten pretty ugly..

Anyway, good luck to all, spare your water;)