OT. dry well :(
 

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

OT. dry well :(
 

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:02 -0000,
wrote:

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

Wowzers - that's a bummer.

How deep do the drillers think they will have to go?

OT. dry well :(
 

On Oct 25, 8:34 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:02 -0000,
wrote:

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

Wowzers - that's a bummer.

How deep do the drillers think they will have to go?

Find out when I make some calls tomorrow. 20 years ago a guy gave me a
"guess" based on geological (I think that is the right word) info he
had, but I do not remember...

OT. dry well :(
 

On Oct 25, 10:30 pm, wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:34:37 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:02 -0000,
wrote:

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

Wowzers - that's a bummer.

How deep do the drillers think they will have to go?

Depends on how deep his pockets are!

ouch!

OT. dry well :(
 

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:54:22 -0000,
wrote:

On Oct 25, 8:34 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:02 -0000,
wrote:

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

Wowzers - that's a bummer.

How deep do the drillers think they will have to go?

Find out when I make some calls tomorrow. 20 years ago a guy gave me a
"guess" based on geological (I think that is the right word) info he
had, but I do not remember...

The reason I asked is because of your location. Most wells in that
area are almost down to 250 feet.

Ours is 465, but then we're on a hill.

OT. dry well :(
 

On Oct 26, 6:23 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:54:22 -0000,
wrote:





On Oct 25, 8:34 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:02 -0000,
wrote:

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

Wowzers - that's a bummer.

How deep do the drillers think they will have to go?

Find out when I make some calls tomorrow. 20 years ago a guy gave me a
"guess" based on geological (I think that is the right word) info he
had, but I do not remember...

The reason I asked is because of your location. Most wells in that
area are almost down to 250 feet.

Ours is 465, but then we're on a hill.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, iirc 2 - 250 might be about right.

OT. dry well :(
 

On Oct 25, 7:59 pm, wrote:
Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

In order to get *good* drinking water, you have to go quite deep here,
so most wells are still okay, from what I hear. When I lived in
western NY, our well was around 20 feet deep, basically you could go
out in your yard, put what they called a well point on a 1" pipe, and
drive it into the ground with a sledge hammer, and get good water.
Here you go about 100'. There is water closer to the surface, but
theres alot of iron in it. The older homesteads in the area that have
wells are lucky! They may have to stand guard over there wells! Good
luck with yours.

OT. dry well :(
 

On Oct 26, 8:00 am, wrote:
On Oct 26, 6:23 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:





On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:54:22 -0000,
wrote:

On Oct 25, 8:34 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:59:02 -0000,
wrote:

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill. We
have had very little rain up here in CT ether this year, not as bad as
the south, but enough to cost me a bundle. So I know how you feel
Loogie, any wells going out down there?

Wowzers - that's a bummer.

How deep do the drillers think they will have to go?

Find out when I make some calls tomorrow. 20 years ago a guy gave me a
"guess" based on geological (I think that is the right word) info he
had, but I do not remember...

The reason I asked is because of your location. Most wells in that
area are almost down to 250 feet.

Ours is 465, but then we're on a hill.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yeah, iirc 2 - 250 might be about right.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Wow! Like I said, in western NY you can get very good water at 20 in
most valley areas.

OT. dry well :(
 

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.

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

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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.

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!

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!

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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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;)

OT. dry well :(
 

On Oct 26, 5:10 pm, " JimH" ask wrote:
wrote in message

ups.com...

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill.

Unexpected costs like this are a bummer. Hope it works out OK for you Scot
and does not bust the bank.

Ah, we will get through...thanks for your concern though. Funny how
things work. Just took on an extra job for the winter, thought it
might put a little extra in the pocket, ugh...

OT. dry well :(
 

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:12:02 -0000,
wrote:

On Oct 26, 5:10 pm, " JimH" ask wrote:
wrote in message

ups.com...

Well, for the first time in 20 years our well in Essex has gone dry.
It had gone out a couple of months back and we went a little deeper
(dug well), but now it's looks like I am going to have to drill.

Unexpected costs like this are a bummer. Hope it works out OK for you Scot
and does not bust the bank.

Ah, we will get through...thanks for your concern though. Funny how
things work. Just took on an extra job for the winter, thought it
might put a little extra in the pocket, ugh...

Heh - isn't that the way it always happens?

Good luck with it.

Want to head out Wendnesday next week? Want to burn off some gas
before I send the Ranger into the shop for some reburbishment. [1]

[1] Having the bottom soda blasted, barrier coated then some kind of
permanent vinyl ester coating so I can get rid of the blue.

Also having some custom fiberglass work done on the console, install a
second live well and reconfiguring the battery boxes for electric down
rigger installation.