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Post by esshup on May 12, 2021 20:01:32 GMT -5
The old well for the lake house was in the basement. Shallow well, 2" galvanized pipe.
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Post by omegahunter on May 14, 2021 5:33:39 GMT -5
How old is this well supposed to be?? When I was a kid, we were at a Thanksgiving dinner at a relative's house, and we were playing football in the side yard. It was getting a little dark. After a play, nobody could find the ball (an orange Nerf ball). I was still getting up and I felt my foot sink into the ground a bit. Then we found a hole about the diameter of the ball. I stuck my arm down the hole but there was no bottom. I jumped back from the hole and asked someone to go in and get a flashlight. Turns out we were standing on top of an old hand-dug well that appeared to be about 15 feet deep to the water. It was lined with stone and covered with old boards and then enough dirt for the grass to grow. Nobody knew about the well, not even the folks that owned the house. And that is one of the reasons DNR has rules on how to properly abandon wells. Potable wells are now supposed to be capped with concrete after they've been closed. DNR just pushes a brushpile over them when you find one on their property.
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Post by Ahawkeye on May 14, 2021 16:12:46 GMT -5
I've seen 2 wells or cisterns on DNR property that had chain link fence and fence posts at 4 corners. Looked like they did the best they could with what they had but they were not professionally done by any means. I ALWAYS mark yhem on GPS when I find them and try to put more barrier up like fallen limbs or what ever I can find so no one falls in. There's one I know of that is very remote you'd be a goner gor sure if you fell in that one. Both spots were discussed with property managers.
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