01-01-2008, 06:52 AM
You ask: Why not install your own well?
The ground here is extremely pourous. If you are considering placing a well in HPP down stream from 8,000+ lots with cesspools and septic systems it seems like risky business to me. The density of build out in HPP will only increase. The water quality, it would also seem to me, would only decrease in time.
Another alternative I have seen in use is people install their water tanks and pumps and don't even hook up to the roof. Catchment without catching. They simply buy water from the upslope wells. Price is about the same (they say) as metered water from the county and they don't worry about leaves, debris and bird droppings contaminating their supply.
It is up to you of course but I would think three times about a well.
The ground here is extremely pourous. If you are considering placing a well in HPP down stream from 8,000+ lots with cesspools and septic systems it seems like risky business to me. The density of build out in HPP will only increase. The water quality, it would also seem to me, would only decrease in time.
Another alternative I have seen in use is people install their water tanks and pumps and don't even hook up to the roof. Catchment without catching. They simply buy water from the upslope wells. Price is about the same (they say) as metered water from the county and they don't worry about leaves, debris and bird droppings contaminating their supply.
It is up to you of course but I would think three times about a well.
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