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On 2/7/2019 10:25 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 02/07/2019 01:37 PM, Frank wrote:
Cannot drink water until it is tested and can't do that until next week
when chlorine is run out.Â* Digger said just because new well is less
than 50 ft from the old one does not mean water will be the same.Â* I
just hope it does not need treatment.Â* Some neighbors do and a few only
drink bottled water.


Worst case you get sulfur...Â* When I was a kid we had a dug shallow
well. After my father died my mother had a new well drilled because that
was 'better'. Nothing like a hot shower that smells like a fart. The
coffee was great too.





I'm familiar with that from a friends hunting camp in central PA. You
could not drink or cook with the water. We had to go downhill a couple
of hundred yards to get spring water to drink.

This is gas and coal country and in fact when they bought the camp they
did not know mineral rights were separate and they got sold to a gas
company before they found out. The gas company came in many years later
and put 2 wells on the 40 acre property. The camp gets free gas.