01-02-2008, 11:16 AM
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Originally posted by Rob Tucker
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.
This opinion was seconded by Ron Nickles, one of the civil engineers on the East side who also asks clients to really think about a well with the current systems of wastewater here rarely including legitimate sewer systems.
There is a reason why county wells require any wastewater system being put in within 1000 ft uphill to meet certain standards - and it is much more than septic/cesspool standards to the cost of more than $11K. Some of the lots in Black Sands Beach have that issue with the county well beign less than 1000 ft away.
Now my thought is that if the county only requires to 1000 ft - usually they are closing the door after the horse is out of the barn.
But again, just an opinion, do the due diligence.