How’s The Weather Where You Are?

I cannot get info on my well. The county does not have any info on it.

 

I don't want to contaminate it.

I know another well has been drilled at least once here, but there are headstones on the property dating back to the early 1900s, so that's to be expected. My neighbors original home place is 70 years old, and they cleaved off part of that property for another house around 1980 (only 3-4 acres total) and drilled a second well that's still producing, as is the original well.

eta: The storm missed me by about 30 miles to the east. They got flood warnings.

 

So you're saying that I do not need to sanitize the weight and string with--say--rubbing alcohol? I was thinking of using monofilament. I'm a little paranoid over not messing up the well. I would like to know if for no other reason than to have some understanding in case there's an issue. Then I won't be checking things out for the first time when I'm in Repair Mode.

 

I forget exactly what the issue was. The county had some paperwork but not the final report. Whatever the issue, they could not tell me who drilled the well so I could chase the guy down and get the info from him. Our water department is one of the few agencies staffed by cliché government workers. The woman who is at the front desk does not acknowledge you when you walk up...she keeps her eyes on the monitor and does not speak. You finally figure out that it's your job to tell her what you need, and she grabs a document with a list of resources and holds it in your direction, all without uttering a sound or looking at you.

There may be a coliform test required when the property changes hands, but that was probably done by the seller. I moved in 9 months after I bought the place and had a full lab report done a few months later and there were traces of chlorine. A subsequent test some years later showed no chlorine, so I assume someone shocked the well prior to sale.

I have a deep drilled well, so I assume the water down there has been filtered to some degree by the ground & rocks it's passed through. There are some bored wells and artesian wells around here, but I don't have one of those. I should not have any contaminates in it unless the grout around the well pipe is compromised.

 

It's in the low 80s here, no rain, but it rained last night. I just came in from washing my car, and it feels hotter than the low 80s, though.

 

We had light showers this morning but are still rain-starved around here. Our next shot at rain is in 4 days.

 

We're having the normal amount of rain for spring and summer, I think, which means that it rains at least three days out of the week.