Quote Originally Posted by thatguy View Post
We have a kick ass well, part of the Cottonwood water basin, about 1/2 mile from Sac River.

I water the yard at an obscene rate, as do all my neighbors.
Got a 2" drop line in the well for the field sprinklers too.
Tried to pump it down once for a recharge test...2" pump wouldn't do it.
Pay irrigation tax because of our location, but we only see an electric bill increase with more water use.

Oh yeah, 38,000 gallon pool is auto filled from the well also...
Poor bastards.
Yup. we have a water well at our horse property (we live in a regular tract house, not at the horse property). The well was hand dug by miners and is a shallow water well at 30'. Why only 30' I always wondered...why didn't they dig deeper? Turns out the laws of physics dictate you can only pull water 26 head feet. Anything further then you have to push and pull. Crazy old bastards knew a thing, or two. I had a water sample analyzed and the water is somewhat brackish, but is free from pollutants; and the nitrates are fine (suggesting no pollution from fertilizer or waste). Now, if I can only find all the gold they mined at Mt. Whitney...which is rumored to be buried on our property.

Riverside has a high water table and mostly relies on its own wells for water, and we sell the excess to other cities. The city is reluctant to renew any gas station leases for that reason (there are only 3 gas stations in our zip code).

Like others, I don't understand why we don't build a kick ass desalination plant.