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Posted by ransley on October 24, 2009, 8:35 am
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> I plan to fill in this well. Any particulars known? It has concrete box
> around it with a little roof. I intend to bust up the concrete, dump it
> down the well, bust up the rock base with a hole in the middle and dump
> it down the hole and have any number of loads of gravel dumped on the
> well so most if it falls down the hole and use my tractor to push in the
> rest with the bucket loader. Then top it off with loam and grass seed.
Why fill it. The water is probably great for watering plants, lawn and
trees, its all full of nutrients.
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Posted by Van Chocstraw on October 24, 2009, 8:58 am
ransley wrote:
> wrote:
>> I plan to fill in this well. Any particulars known? It has concrete box
>> around it with a little roof. I intend to bust up the concrete, dump it
>> down the well, bust up the rock base with a hole in the middle and dump
>> it down the hole and have any number of loads of gravel dumped on the
>> well so most if it falls down the hole and use my tractor to push in the
>> rest with the bucket loader. Then top it off with loam and grass seed.
>
> Why fill it. The water is probably great for watering plants, lawn and
> trees, its all full of nutrients.
I don't water nothing. I let nature take care of itself.
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Posted by willshak on October 24, 2009, 10:00 am
on 10/23/2009 9:18 AM (ET) Van Chocstraw wrote the following:
> I plan to fill in this well. Any particulars known? It has concrete
> box around it with a little roof. I intend to bust up the concrete,
> dump it down the well, bust up the rock base with a hole in the middle
> and dump it down the hole and have any number of loads of gravel
> dumped on the well so most if it falls down the hole and use my
> tractor to push in the rest with the bucket loader. Then top it off
> with loam and grass seed.
Throwing anything down there might affect other people who take their
water from that aquifer.
--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
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Posted by KC on October 25, 2009, 1:01 pm
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> Throwing anything down there might affect other people who take their
> water from that aquifer.
Naw, water traveling thru 100' of soil is clean enough to drink.
That's why you can have a well and septic field on the same property
as long as they are 100+ ft apart.
KC
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Posted by aemeijers on October 25, 2009, 1:27 pm
KC wrote:
>
> .
>> Throwing anything down there might affect other people who take their
>> water from that aquifer.
>
> Naw, water traveling thru 100' of soil is clean enough to drink.
> That's why you can have a well and septic field on the same property
> as long as they are 100+ ft apart.
>
> KC
Probably true for e.coli and the like, which is all a home septic is
likely to release. Not at all true for hydrocarbons, heavy metals in
solution, and similar industrial things. They managed to kill a well
field in this city a few years back with the plume from a solvent
processing company several miles away. Also why gas stations that go out
of business can't abandon their old metal tanks in place any more, and
why new station tanks are double-wall plastic with alarms built in. And
why neighborhood ma'n'pa dry cleaners have to send their actual cleaning
out to a central plant now.
--
aem sends...
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> around it with a little roof. I intend to bust up the concrete, dump it
> down the well, bust up the rock base with a hole in the middle and dump
> it down the hole and have any number of loads of gravel dumped on the
> well so most if it falls down the hole and use my tractor to push in the
> rest with the bucket loader. Then top it off with loam and grass seed.