Re: Water-holes

Posted by JML755 on March 13, 2008 at 06:25:19 from (66.184.63.107):

In Reply to: O/T new well posted by Roy in georgia on March 10, 2008 at 19:31:09:

JDmaris,

If you go to Tony's (Birch Run exit off of I-75 by Saginaw,MI) make sure you've got an appetite. Order bacon & eggs and you get about a lb of bacon and 2-3 eggs. Amazing place for the quantity of food you get. We used to stop there with a group of guys heading up north to golf. We'd take tomatoes and loaves of bread to make BLT's for lunch on the golf course from the leftover bacon at breakfast.

Regarding the Oiriginal Topic. I also am amazed regarding the difficulty of getting water along the Great Lakes. We looked at property between Port Sanilac and the Thumb tip where people had to truck in water, while having 20% of the world's fresh water lapping at their front door. Father-in-Law has a house on Lake Huron, just north of Lexington. with a shallow well on the beach. Great tasting water. It's grandfathered in but am told Health Dept. wouldn't let him put one in today. Has it tested annualy and no problems.

I'm got some property 1 mile from the St. Clair River and will be putting in a well in the next year or so, hence my interest in water well posts. I've been told not to expect great taste. Reverse osmosis filtering is common but expensive. Friend put one on his well and I think he said he can draw about 5 gals per day for drinking purposes. Being a Detroit suburbanite all my life, I'm used to turning on the tap and getting 60 PSI of clean, good tasting water all year round without having to mess with softeners, filters, pumps, etc.

The funny thing is a lot of the water is drawn out of Lake Huron, north of Port Huron, sent about 40 miles south via a HUGE pipe to Detroit Water Dept for treatment , then distributed back out as far north as halfway back to Port Huron. Detroit Water Dept sells the water to the suburbs and the rate is dependent upon how far the suburb is from the Detroit border. It's real controversial around here and there are lawsuits, attempts to regionalize the system, etc. going on all the time. Droughts DO happen with water shortages that drop the pressure to as low as 30 psi in some summers, but the problem is not the source (hard to imagine pumping Lake Huron dry) but rather the ability of the infrastructure (pumps, pipes) to keep up with demand in a hot, dry summer.

Friend has a dug well inside the basement of his house covered with a piece of plywood. Going to help him fill it some time in the future. It's got 15' of clear water in it all the time, about 4' from the top. Never had it tested, I wouldn't drink it, but at some time in the past, it was the source of water for the farmer who lived there with his family.

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