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Everyday brings something new! Manure runoff in well water!
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<blockquote data-quote="ny_grass" data-source="post: 824877" data-attributes="member: 8237"><p>Yeah, it's hand/backhoe dug, 3' wide from edge to edge. It's got concrete sides (pipe like things that sit on top of each other) and is about 20' deep. I've been down in it before (don't ask) and it seem very solid. Hard time seeing how it could have collapsed, though, of course, tomorrow I'll take a look.</p><p></p><p>Here's one thing I didn't mention in the original post: I had a local guy run a line (1" 160PSI black hose) from where the outlet leaves the well for the house, out to the new heated waterer I put in last fall. He dug the trench down about 4 feet. So, perhaps this newly dug (actually that was dug about 2 years ago - took me awhile to get the money to buy the waterer) trench is allowing manure run off to get closer to the well than it otherwise might? The area right in front of the waterer, of course, is very manure saturated.</p><p></p><p>Another thing. If you pour a glass of water from the faucet and let it sit, it doesn't appear that anything actually settles out to the bottom of the glass. It's like the water just been colored/dyed (with, I guess, extremely small particles that aren't heavy enough to drop).</p><p></p><p>But, thanks for commenting; good to hear that it's not obviously manure runoff ... ;-)</p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ny_grass, post: 824877, member: 8237"] Yeah, it's hand/backhoe dug, 3' wide from edge to edge. It's got concrete sides (pipe like things that sit on top of each other) and is about 20' deep. I've been down in it before (don't ask) and it seem very solid. Hard time seeing how it could have collapsed, though, of course, tomorrow I'll take a look. Here's one thing I didn't mention in the original post: I had a local guy run a line (1" 160PSI black hose) from where the outlet leaves the well for the house, out to the new heated waterer I put in last fall. He dug the trench down about 4 feet. So, perhaps this newly dug (actually that was dug about 2 years ago - took me awhile to get the money to buy the waterer) trench is allowing manure run off to get closer to the well than it otherwise might? The area right in front of the waterer, of course, is very manure saturated. Another thing. If you pour a glass of water from the faucet and let it sit, it doesn't appear that anything actually settles out to the bottom of the glass. It's like the water just been colored/dyed (with, I guess, extremely small particles that aren't heavy enough to drop). But, thanks for commenting; good to hear that it's not obviously manure runoff ... ;-) JR [/QUOTE]
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