09-27-2006, 07:45 AM
I was told by one of the few water haulers in Puna that if you drill in HPP you need to buy the water rights from Shipman. Is this really the case as I hear those water rights can run around $5,000.
There was a seminar on drilling at the HPP community center a few weeks ago and the guy there indicated that you shouldn't drill a well within a 1/4-mile radius of a leach field or a cesspool.
This same water hauler told me that some wells in HPP down by the ocean had gone "sour" because of this problem with new developments encrouching on existing wells. I'd hate to have spent in the tens of thousands of dollars to drill a well and secure a water right from Shipman just to have it go sour because a new neighbor built a septic tank too close to my well head.
I'll stick to catchment. Legend has it that if there is a short but heavy outburst of rain late at night, the nightmarchers are near. Thank god for them as my catchment tanks would be bone dry without them.
There was a seminar on drilling at the HPP community center a few weeks ago and the guy there indicated that you shouldn't drill a well within a 1/4-mile radius of a leach field or a cesspool.
This same water hauler told me that some wells in HPP down by the ocean had gone "sour" because of this problem with new developments encrouching on existing wells. I'd hate to have spent in the tens of thousands of dollars to drill a well and secure a water right from Shipman just to have it go sour because a new neighbor built a septic tank too close to my well head.
I'll stick to catchment. Legend has it that if there is a short but heavy outburst of rain late at night, the nightmarchers are near. Thank god for them as my catchment tanks would be bone dry without them.