Yes, not here at home, but 30 miles north, at a residence that was part of the farm there, is a relative, a WWII veteran, bomber and fighter pilot, who gets domestic water from a pond adjacent to his house, not used for any livestock or accessed by anyone. Wells in this area or within this 50 acre place are just not productive enough, I think we have 3 driven or drilled wells, one has good cold spring water but it will run dry with heavy use, the others are ok, I honestly don't get the water situation there, seems to be a fair amount of sulfur and I think iron, judging by the water buckets.
Back to the question, he has a neat filtration system, pond gets covered with millfoil (Sp?) too, but the water is fine, every once in awhile you have to clear or check on the pick up, he still wades out, but I have done it for him. At first glance it just kind of turns a person off, but, he drilled one or 2 wells, they just could not produce.
The better idea, in this geological array of sand, clay and shale, was a 10' foot deep hole in the shale, or where the older deteriorated layer starts, was to place a filter fabric covered perforated precast round structure. 2 sections high with a lid it fills with 1200 gallons and if pumped out fills at a rapid pace, clean cold filtered water without the sulfur, and it produces even in the driest of weather, none of the wells can produce like that and there must be about 5 wells on this place. Thats what he should have instead of the pond, you just have to make sure and backfill over the top cover, we did not and you can get sediment, snakes squeeze in under somehow and can drop down in, die etc., if that was not an issue, I think it would test fine. Easy to shock, think it was a 1 1/2 gallons of chlorine to shock it and sanitize which I used to do. Its not much different than a stone lined hand dug well, sometimes deep is not the answer it seems, here they range 250'-300' and you can have annoying levels of sulfur or traces I have the latter and use a softener, never runs dry, or I've never pushed it in dry weather.
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