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On 2018-12-23 6:44 a.m., Wade Garrett wrote:
On 12/22/18 10:14 AM, backstrapassassin wrote:
OK I've got a situation thatÂ* is along these lines but worse,Â* my
family moved
into a house neighboring a man I've known my whole life. It's a shared
well
the person I bought it from sold the man I've knownÂ* land to build his
house
and split a line over to his house for water. And the land that was
sold to
him is were the well head is, so years later my family buys the house and
here's the situationÂ* the well head is on his land the pressureÂ* tank
is in my
crawlÂ* ( 4ft tall ) spaceÂ* electric to the pump is on my house meter.
When we
moved inÂ* an old man and old woman, and he would bring a few cows up
from a
lower field once or twice a year to finish them didn't use to much
water . He
told me when we moved in that the old guy I bought from took 100 a
year for
water usage, I thought kinda low but two old people and a few cows OK
that's
cool. Fast forward two years his wife dies he's there alone still no
big deal
on water we've lived there going on ten years now so around year 7 he
remarried to a lady that farms goats for milk so know they have 100 goats
(milk goats ) he raises pigs 6 to 10 at a time he's go chickens
turkeys ducks
pretty much all live stock but horses and he still pays 100 a year.
I'll note
over the years any problemsÂ* have been split 50 50. A few months ago I
get a electricÂ* bill that's 357. I'm like wtf, so I go to
the crawl space and sure enough the pump is short cycling.Â* So I track
the
leak back to the shutoff valueÂ* at the wellÂ* head. But before I found
that I
went to his house to find water standing by his barn I said that must
be the
leak that made my electric bill triple.Â* He says no that's been a slow
leak
sense November the year prior. I'm like wtfÂ* we will call him Carlos.
He said
it doesn't leak enough to cycle that pump like that and I said but Carlos
every bit of cycle time runs off my house it all matters to me.his
wife comes
out and I said hey how about we put the pump on its own meter because
you guys
have a full blow farm running now and I can't tell were I'm at as far as
efficiency,Â* BTW my family has installed the most efficient
appliances when
we have to replace anything over the years. He said no cost $30 a
month alone
just for the meter I said I'll gladly split at least I'll know where I'm
standing and I also said I'll split the $15 a month for my part of the
meter
and I'll pay you $100 a year for the next 9 years and his wife laughed
at me
looked at me like I was crazy when I said that anyway it's Christmas
time now
2018 and I think I'm going to go over and discuss this again with him
since
another years past what are you guys think jacked-up situation huh


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wade garrett , LOL