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RE: The Maker Challenge No.3 = Water Collection + Storage + Usage System - My System...
Very nice to see what you're doing there with the rainwater... that's a lot of downspouts! I wanted to ask about the wide bore well, how deep is it? It's a great idea to think about keeping the ability to get water with a bucket (old fashion like). We got an estimate for a well Nd thry said it may be as deep as 400 feet! I don't know if it would be very practical to use a bucket!!! That's long wag to pull. But we may get a hand pump.
Wow! that is a deep well! Our shallow well is 24 feet down but the water will come right up to close to the surface so it freezes easily. The first winter we had it we had to use an axe to chop through the ice to pull the water up before we got a water pump. Now we put a heat lamp in it to keep it from freezing. Our straw bale construction well house is great for storing veggies in in the fall or we could even hang stuff in the well in the summer to keep it cool for the water is very cold. We had to go through perma frost to get to the water source.
Tou had to go through permafrost??? Where are you guys, how far north?
400 feet was an estimate due to our neighbors wells being 300 feet deep.... and we are up on the hill. I think I should find a Dowser to help with finding a source so we don't have to drill so deep!
We live by the Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan Canada. Where we dug the well was like a peat bog which acts like an insulator holding the cold in the ground. It surprised us too when we saw the ice crystals in the ground in the middle of summer!