What's your tap water ppm?
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DoubleAtotheRON
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Any of you well guys get your water tested?... I test about every couple of years just to see if there's a change in the composite of the water. Mine always comes back from the lab about the same. They (the drillers) said that this aquifer under me comes from Colorado, and it takes 7 years for it to get here. .... who took that ride is what I wanna know.
Gemtree
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No I've wanted it tested for minerals but we just get one of those positive/negative test for all the bad chemical stuff per year from the landlord. I'm in Michigan surrounded by cornfields that were probably sprayed with paper mill sludge for decades. The town over was on the news for pfas levels and illegal dumping. I don't drink the water
DoubleAtotheRON
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Wow man... that's crazy. I live pretty remotely. On the Chisholm Trail in Oklahoma to be exact. The land here and around has been undisturbed forever. There's places on my property I've never stepped foot on in 21 years. Only evidence of people ever being here is, I was cutting a path through the woods to get to my firing range from my shop, and I found a tree that is about 25 inches round, and there was barbed wire running straight through the middle of it. I guess some settlers were nailing wire to trees to keep thier cattle herded. I do drink the water tho,... very clean, just hard with minerals.
PadawanWarrior
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Stop stealing my water man. My well water here in Colorado is around 140ppm and 7.8 or so pH. Mostly Ca too.
I'm at the top of a mountain kinda, so our well is like 800 ft deep or something crazy.
DoubleAtotheRON
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Damn!. Deepest well I've heard of around here is half of that. Either way, I think well water is better that any tap water. Nothing added but natural minerals.... no chemicals, etc. But, like i said, only downside is having to clean shower heads, and faucet heads every now and then.
hotrodharley
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Durango Colorado has very soft water. Signs at the laundromat "Our water is very soft. Please use less detergent than you do back in Texas. Thank you."
hotrodharley
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The Ogallala aquifer.
DoubleAtotheRON
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Our is the El Reno...(ER)
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hotrodharley
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You're in the eastern half of OK then?
DoubleAtotheRON
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SW Oklahoma... see that pink section coming from the top of the map?
hotrodharley
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Not on this phone I can't.
most likely the 23 ppm is frog piss and shit I reckon natural goodness
Samwell Seed Well
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DoubleAtotheRON
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The guys that drilled down hit water at 70 ft.. bottom of the aquifer is 220 ft. I set the pump at 190. Dude said that my kids grandkids wouldn't run out of water if we ran it 24/7.
hotrodharley
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We wish the Ogallala was in that shape. Center pivot irrigation has really drained it. They used to think it would last much longer.
DoubleAtotheRON
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Must be kinda shallow?... or they just use a hell of a lot of water!
hotrodharley
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It's the second. In the San Luis Valley there used to be artesians everywhere. I do mean everywhere. If you had told us in 1970 that those pain in the ass artesians would disappear totally in less than 25 years most would have laughed.
Now wells there usually are not deep enough and have to redrilled to 400' just to irrigate frigging potatoes and lettuce. A lot of land has been sold because it would cost too much for a new well.
Moflow
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How do they know where to drill to find the underground water?
Just wondering.
When I was a child in the 60's we used to go to my uncle's farm for the summer and we got our water from a neighbours farm in buckets, a right pain in the arse lol.
Then my uncle got a Water Dowser to come and search for water with a forked branch, he found 2 good spots and dug down and found water. Piped it down to the farmhouse. It was still a pain in the ass as we'd to hand pump the water into a header tank in a tower to supply the house!
Maybe Dowsing bro science but it worked lol
It was very hard water and my ma used to boil up rhubarb in the kettle and pots to remove the limescale
Just wondering.
When I was a child in the 60's we used to go to my uncle's farm for the summer and we got our water from a neighbours farm in buckets, a right pain in the arse lol.
Then my uncle got a Water Dowser to come and search for water with a forked branch, he found 2 good spots and dug down and found water. Piped it down to the farmhouse. It was still a pain in the ass as we'd to hand pump the water into a header tank in a tower to supply the house!
Maybe Dowsing bro science but it worked lol
It was very hard water and my ma used to boil up rhubarb in the kettle and pots to remove the limescale
xtsho
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The tap water here is pretty damn good. It comes from the Bull Run watershed which comes off of the NW slopes of Mt Hood. They do tap into some wells along the Columbia river at certain times of the year which are downriver from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. But over 5 decades of drinking the water and my toes and fingers aren't glowing. But I think about it.
