A Couple Thoughts
anonymous
March 2 2010, 10:28:11 UTC
On water wells. Your great grandpa Ike Gregory. Had the ability to find water with a forked willow tree branch. If you remember I could find unmarked graves with the forked metal rod from a grave side wreath frame. You could get the vill together as a community project and dig the well by hand.They need water right ? If you remember us telling you kids about the well dad,Scotty,Gary and I dug by hand on Alice and Scottys place ? I was 14 and Scotty and I together witched that water with a willow fork. Dad said we couldn't find water cause we werent papaw. We said true but grandsons of a man that could. We found water. We got Scottys wrecker. Welded a steel box about 4'X 4' hooked it to the wrecker tripod and started digging. We hit a water trickel at 12'. And lost it at 15'. We hit a good flow at 20'.We ended up using concrete septic tanks and concrete culvert pipe and turned it into a cistern.We preformed a concrete slab and dropped a pump down it.That was almost 46 years ago.Scott and Alice sold that farm a couple years after I etsd
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Re: A Couple Thoughtspc_2009March 2 2010, 10:57:11 UTC
Well, they have organizations here that do the borehole digging. And a borehole and a well are two different things. A borehole needs to be dug to a large water table, sometimes over a hundred feet into the ground and that's too deep to do by hand. The people do dig their own wells here and it's a numerous-person affair.
Water isn't just sitting around underground here, though - it's simply not here. And what is here is too deep to reach by hand. And the pumps for the boreholes are REALLY expensive - like 500GhC (about $300 - which is a LOT for a place like where I'm working). We'll try to figure out something because it's becoming a slightly desperate situation. The dams and creeks the people go to are beginning to dry up as the rain takes longer to come.
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Water isn't just sitting around underground here, though - it's simply not here. And what is here is too deep to reach by hand. And the pumps for the boreholes are REALLY expensive - like 500GhC (about $300 - which is a LOT for a place like where I'm working). We'll try to figure out something because it's becoming a slightly desperate situation. The dams and creeks the people go to are beginning to dry up as the rain takes longer to come.
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