What a day! (10)
My day was okay but I can relate to water pump issues.
I moved to North Carolina 2 years ago. I new ahead of time that the house had a ground well and I thought that would be good cause I remember when I was a child we had a ground well that was very deep. The water was clear and tasted great so I thought I would have that again. Not!
The water in general in NC isn't good because of contamination. The Chemours Fayetteville plant has released GenX compounds into the Cape Fear River, which is a drinking water source for the Wilmington, North Carolina area. The water supply may have been contaminated for a decade or more, resulting in controversy over its potential health effects.
I don't live in Fayetteville or Wilmington but I do live near the Cape Fear River which has GenX in it. I buy bottled water for drinking and use the well water for shower and washing dishes. When I moved here the well water wasn't great but about a year and a half later it got really bad to the point that it was discolored because of the iron and other chemicals. My sinks were stained, the toilet was stained. I had to use Iron Out to remove the rust stain.
I rent this house and told the landlord about it. They bought a water filter and now the well water is crystal clear but I still won't drink it.
Back to issues with ground wells......
I moved here in Nov. 2017, about two months later we had a very cold winter and the lines from the well froze so I couldn't flush the toilet, wash dishes or bath. Hmmmmm The area I live in everybody has a ground well. They told me to turn the lightbulb on that is in the shed. I didn't know what they were talking about. They use a high wattage light bulb to shine onto the lines from the well to the pump to keep it from freezing and it works. I feel like I live in the middle of the woods, but I don't. It's just very rural.
I moved to North Carolina 2 years ago. I new ahead of time that the house had a ground well and I thought that would be good cause I remember when I was a child we had a ground well that was very deep. The water was clear and tasted great so I thought I would have that again. Not!
The water in general in NC isn't good because of contamination. The Chemours Fayetteville plant has released GenX compounds into the Cape Fear River, which is a drinking water source for the Wilmington, North Carolina area. The water supply may have been contaminated for a decade or more, resulting in controversy over its potential health effects.
I don't live in Fayetteville or Wilmington but I do live near the Cape Fear River which has GenX in it. I buy bottled water for drinking and use the well water for shower and washing dishes. When I moved here the well water wasn't great but about a year and a half later it got really bad to the point that it was discolored because of the iron and other chemicals. My sinks were stained, the toilet was stained. I had to use Iron Out to remove the rust stain.
I rent this house and told the landlord about it. They bought a water filter and now the well water is crystal clear but I still won't drink it.
Back to issues with ground wells......
I moved here in Nov. 2017, about two months later we had a very cold winter and the lines from the well froze so I couldn't flush the toilet, wash dishes or bath. Hmmmmm The area I live in everybody has a ground well. They told me to turn the lightbulb on that is in the shed. I didn't know what they were talking about. They use a high wattage light bulb to shine onto the lines from the well to the pump to keep it from freezing and it works. I feel like I live in the middle of the woods, but I don't. It's just very rural.
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I'm glad I don't have plumbing issues, so today was a good day.
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Friskyone: I'm glad I don't have plumbing issues, so today was a good day.
My plumbing needs a plumber 
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Mercedes_00: My plumbing needs a plumber
Don't mean to enjoy your misery.. But you can be downright funny sometimes! 
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Mercedes_00: My plumbing needs a plumber
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secretagent09: My day was okay but I can relate to water pump issues.
I moved here in Nov. 2017, about two months later we had a very cold winter and the lines from the well froze so I couldn't flush the toilet, wash dishes or bath. Hmmmmm The area I live in everybody has a ground well. They told me to turn the lightbulb on that is in the shed. I didn't know what they were talking about. They use a high wattage light bulb to shine onto the lines from the well to the pump to keep it from freezing and it works. I feel like I live in the middle of the woods, but I don't. It's just very rural.
Your well/pump system sounds like the one I had when I had a farm. The pump was in a little room under the kitchen. The well as a hand dug shallow well about 10 feet away. By "hand dug" I mean some poor soul actually dug a hole down about 30 feet til he hit water. The hole was lined with stones. The storage tank was also under the house in the crawl space just sitting on the dirt. The galvanized pipe from the pump to the tank was just laying on top of the dirt under the house. I was told by a neighbor that once the temp fell to below freezing they had no water. My first thought was "God, no wonder they lost the Civil War." My little "Well house" also had a light bulb. I wrapped all the exposed pipes with heat tapes and that cured my frozen pipe problems. It boggled my mid that people would live like this for decades. Eventually I drilled a deep well with a submersible pump. By "Drilled" I don't mean in the conventional way wells are drilled with a rotating cutter. My new well was what is known to old timers as a "Pounded Well".I moved here in Nov. 2017, about two months later we had a very cold winter and the lines from the well froze so I couldn't flush the toilet, wash dishes or bath. Hmmmmm The area I live in everybody has a ground well. They told me to turn the lightbulb on that is in the shed. I didn't know what they were talking about. They use a high wattage light bulb to shine onto the lines from the well to the pump to keep it from freezing and it works. I feel like I live in the middle of the woods, but I don't. It's just very rural.
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im having a great day...just blasting my Christmas carols and relaxing.....
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I pulled a hamstring in my left leg and today's the first day I'm able to bear any weight on it.
The strange thing is … I don't remember how I pulled it.
I've been pretty much miserable for the past 3 days.
The strange thing is … I don't remember how I pulled it.
I've been pretty much miserable for the past 3 days.
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Oh what a lovely day
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