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Not exactly, but just as bad. One of the things we deal with living here in the mountains is maintaining a water supply. The good side of that is that we get to tap into a gen-u-wine underground, beautifully clear, mountain spring. because it is underground and filtered through rock systems all we have to do is filter it a bit at the house. It is as good (most likely better) than the water you buy in bottles and pay a fortune for. No added chemicals, good stuff.
But that also means a well system. The way ours works is that we have a well in a field near our pond and a sunken pump that pumps from the well to a pressure tank and then is fed further up the mountain to the house. Power to the pump comes from the area around the pressure tank and runs underground about 350 ft. In recent years, Prairie Dogs have begun to move into the field - the little buggers proliferate like you would not believe - and their "towns" can become huge.
Anyway, I guess one of our "guests" didn't care for the electric wiring (originally laid in the mid-'90s when conduit was not required) and chewed through it causing a short - and no mo' H2O. So after going last night without water, we bought a 500 ft spool of copper wiring ($1.60 a foot!!!!) and temporarily laid it across the ground until I can get someone here to trench and lay some conduit through which to permanently run the wiring and we're going to change the pump (18 years old) while we're at it. We're talking fairly big bucks here.
So the moral of the story - Prairie Dogs are expensive and inconvenient SOBs. And water is really important when you don't have any...
But that also means a well system. The way ours works is that we have a well in a field near our pond and a sunken pump that pumps from the well to a pressure tank and then is fed further up the mountain to the house. Power to the pump comes from the area around the pressure tank and runs underground about 350 ft. In recent years, Prairie Dogs have begun to move into the field - the little buggers proliferate like you would not believe - and their "towns" can become huge.
Anyway, I guess one of our "guests" didn't care for the electric wiring (originally laid in the mid-'90s when conduit was not required) and chewed through it causing a short - and no mo' H2O. So after going last night without water, we bought a 500 ft spool of copper wiring ($1.60 a foot!!!!) and temporarily laid it across the ground until I can get someone here to trench and lay some conduit through which to permanently run the wiring and we're going to change the pump (18 years old) while we're at it. We're talking fairly big bucks here.
So the moral of the story - Prairie Dogs are expensive and inconvenient SOBs. And water is really important when you don't have any...
