What's your tap water ppm?

DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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Moflow said:
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
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That's how they did it back in the day. It's called "witching" around here. But with todays technology, they sonar large areas of land to see where the aquifers are. I know a water driller here in Oklahoma that has not been able to drill for residential in 2 years because he's so backed up with Grow Op drills.... esp with the Chinese. He keeps telling them "there's no water here" after they set up camp. They tell him "You drill more wells". He had told me that at this one Op, he was only getting 4 gallons a minute, and they wanted him to just keep drilling more wells. I get 22 gallons a minute from mine.
 
Moflow

Moflow

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
That's how they did it back in the day. It's called "witching" around here. But with todays technology, they sonar large areas of land to see where the aquifers are. I know a water driller here in Oklahoma that has not been able to drill for residential in 2 years because he's so backed up with Grow Op drills.... esp with the Chinese. He keeps telling them "there's no water here" after they set up camp. They tell him "You drill more wells". He had told me that at this one Op, he was only getting 4 gallons a minute, and they wanted him to just keep drilling more wells. I get 22 gallons a minute from mine.
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It sounds as if there isn't enough water.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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Moflow said:
It sounds as if there isn't enough water.
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Def not!. But these grow ops set up camp wherever they could buy land, and didn't take into consideration that water may not be below them. I guess they thought that water was available everywhere. One well drilled is about $8500.00 depending on depth. But they didn't care, they just kept shelling out the cash till they had enough wells to supply thier grow ops.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
That's how they did it back in the day. It's called "witching" around here. But with todays technology, they sonar large areas of land to see where the aquifers are. I know a water driller here in Oklahoma that has not been able to drill for residential in 2 years because he's so backed up with Grow Op drills.... esp with the Chinese. He keeps telling them "there's no water here" after they set up camp. They tell him "You drill more wells". He had told me that at this one Op, he was only getting 4 gallons a minute, and they wanted him to just keep drilling more wells. I get 22 gallons a minute from mine.
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I'd be worried about all the "Fracking" and injection of waste from oil drilling contaminating the groundwater these days if you drill too deep. Not just in Oklahoma but many states. They've been dumping stuff deep underground for years and the deeper they go for wells the closer they get.
 
DoubleAtotheRON

DoubleAtotheRON

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xtsho said:
I'd be worried about all the "Fracking" and injection of waste from oil drilling contaminating the groundwater these days if you drill too deep. Not just in Oklahoma but many states. They've been dumping stuff deep underground for years and the deeper they go for wells the closer they get.
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That's why I get mine tested every year at the OSU Extension Office. We've always drank the water, and it's good and clean, just a little hard. But yeah, there was a class action law suit a few years ago from well water residents getting cancer at an alarming rate about 10 miles South of me. There was a company dumping expired rocket fuel into the ground over there, and contaminanted the well water. Thankfully, the aquifer flows South, and was no where near affecting me. That company got sued, and had to run City water lines to that whole neighborhood. Prob cost them millions.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
That's why I get mine tested every year at the OSU Extension Office. We've always drank the water, and it's good and clean, just a little hard. But yeah, there was a class action law suit a few years ago from well water residents getting cancer at an alarming rate about 10 miles South of me. There was a company dumping expired rocket fuel into the ground over there, and contaminanted the well water. Thankfully, the aquifer flows South, and was no where near affecting me. That company got sued, and had to run City water lines to that whole neighborhood. Prob cost them millions.
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The aquifer is getting polluted all across the country. People just don't see it like they do a polluted river. You definitely want to be testing well water regularly.
 
LeastExpectedGrower

LeastExpectedGrower

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DoubleAtotheRON said:
That's why I get mine tested every year at the OSU Extension Office. We've always drank the water, and it's good and clean, just a little hard. But yeah, there was a class action law suit a few years ago from well water residents getting cancer at an alarming rate about 10 miles South of me. There was a company dumping expired rocket fuel into the ground over there, and contaminanted the well water. Thankfully, the aquifer flows South, and was no where near affecting me. That company got sued, and had to run City water lines to that whole neighborhood. Prob cost them millions.
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I HOPE it cost them millions. Because once that shit is in the ground, it's REAL hard to clean it up.

I have a relative who's part of the industry...his business isn't the drill or process but the hole casing. At one point he mentioned that the casing doesn't fail often...but when it does they pay for whoever's well to have filters installed. Which to me was kind of shocking that he thought it was an amenable solution to basically fucking the well's water for eternity and ruining someone's potable water. I'd be pissed if someone thought that kind of band-aid was the fix.
 
PeatPhreak

PeatPhreak

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145 ppm. City water. Stinks like a swimming pool minus the piss. I filter it with a GAC filter attached to a garden hose. This removes about 20ppm. Acidify to 5.8 and it's good to go in peat. :weed:
 
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