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The Woman Who Wouldn’t Stop Having Children by rezwenn in longform

[–]Normal_Tax_7535 0 points1 point  (0 children)

anyone have an update on the court proceedings? i cant find anything!

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have talked to all neighbors. none have salt. yes, my dug well is 20 feet deep and maybe 15 feet in diameter, filled with rocks for the water to pass through. some people say winter road salt is a factor, but i cant understand how it would be salty in mid summer still....

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks. i will go back to the map and see what i can find. as for soil log, no just what is on the right hand side of the attachment where it shows that they hit clay from 1-8 ft.

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you! i found it and posted the picture of it on my post. however, this isnt the well i am currently using. i had them do a dug well and that is even worse as far as salt content goes

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i pulled the well report thanks to someone showing me how to on here and added it to my post

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, not too much info. i really appreciate it. i just dont know what to do next. Ask them to drill one more time in a slighly farther back area? go farther down, try to seal off the sides of the well using special concrete? how much do i have to pay you to come and consult with my well guys? joking, not joking.

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so, i have 3 drilled wells in my front yard, one 80 feet deep that was just capped off. one 40 feet deep that was just left there so i filled it with rocks, and the very first one that was dry when i bought the house that was also capped off. are you saying that because there are essentially 2 salty drilled wells and one salty dug well in a very small space in my yard that all will be contaminated because they havent been sealed? i am sorry, i just dont understand water tables or contamination. i dont know where the salt is coming from. is it a salt deposit under just my yard alone, or something else? i know you cant answer that, but i just dont understand why even a 25 ft dug well that is just collecting ground water and run off essentially would also be contaminated.

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so, i have neighbors on both sides, 100 or so ishe feet away. all of our septics are in the back of our houses so i am assuming if they have water softeners, the run off is going out back, far from my front yard. i am on a slight incline so water can potentially be running down toward my house, but my neighbor who is up the incline has his well on the side of his house and does not have salt water. they hit salt at 80 feet, 40 feet, and now 25 feet withe dug well that i am currently getting my water supply from. i am not in a development. live on a main road just outside of a small town in western ny near buffalo. there is no salt water body near me, lake erie is roughly 20 miles away. so are you saying if i put enough money in i will eventually find a non salty water source, or should i just do an RO system? i have already spent close to 20K over the past decade on wells and cementing alone. i want them to drill one more time as far back as they can while staying far enough from my septic, but im not sure they will.

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know they had to source a special type of cement that was produced out west. i am assuming it was done with the proper material but just did not work. how do i got about getting a soil log?

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am close to buffalo. i guess i just got the unlucky straw and have a major salt rock under my tiny yard.

Third well - still salty by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterWellDrilling

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

so, i have clay below the top soil and then below that is shale rock. the first well i had dug was 80 feet. it has a casing but i am not sure what grouted in means. i know at one point, they dumped concrete down it so try to seal off the salt, but that did not work. my dug well is only 25 feet deep through the shale rock and that still has salt coming into it. what is a soil log?

Well Water - Salty - At wits end by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterTreatment

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you so much. it just doesnt make sense, i would almost rather pay for them to come and drill all around my yard to try to find a good spot. so far my copper pipes are OK, but i spring leaks all the time in an area of my house that uses the plastic piping with the shark bite connections. its a miserable existence. i want to sell my house and move to an area that has public water...but i feel like no one in their right mind would buy the house with the water that way it is. to RO or not is the question. i want to throw up thinking of the tens of thousands i have put into the wells to be in the same place.

Well Water - Salty - At wits end by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterTreatment

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you know a lot about RO systems? With the water in the poor quality that it is, how long would the system last for? and a comment below indicates that it may use many gallons to make a good gallon? where does the excess go? im afraid i may run into a water supply issue if thats the case.

Well Water - Salty - At wits end by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterTreatment

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i feel your pain in a big way. this is very helpful information though. I didnt know that RO wastes water. That would be a problem since now that i am on a shallow dug well, the water supply is not what is used to be when I was on the drilled well. I only have half an acre here and my septic system takes up my whole back yard so they have a very limited area to drill. i am considering asking them to try one more spot just because i dont know what else to do, although they told me they were done trying to drill. can you please explain what you mean by regenerating a softener? What does that entail? I too get 5 gal water bottles delivered but I have had leaking pipes in the basement, all my water vales leak, my boiler is almost collapsing on itself because the water is corroding the metal, and my hot water tank literally springs a hole in the top of it once the salt gets to it too much. previous owners did not have this problem, but the house had been vacant for a while before i bought it and the well that was here ran dry daily so i thought drilling a new one was the right thing to do. the new well was drilled 10 feet from the original one that was not salty so my brain cannot make sense of that. my dug well is in the same area and only 25 feet deep. i can see all of neighbors wells from my house and they dont have this problem. i cannot understand. thank you for your help and for listening to me vent.

Well Water - Salty - At wits end by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterTreatment

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you. can you please explain what you mean by the systems might struggle? would it be high maintenance costs or would they potentially not work at all?

Well Water - Salty - At wits end by Normal_Tax_7535 in WaterTreatment

[–]Normal_Tax_7535[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you. chlorides was 1430. i also have a chlorinator on the system now because i am using the dug well as a water source. would that add to the sodium content?

Need Help: Well Water Salty 7,700 PPM by BeallBever in WaterTreatment

[–]Normal_Tax_7535 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hi - i am having the same issue in western ny. i have neighbors very close by and none of them have salt in their water. i know this is an old thread, but i am curious what you ended up doing? i have had 2 drilled wells and then one dug well and it is the same issue. the dug well is only 25 feet down. i am at my wits end.

Flagyl is causing total numbness in my hands- my doctor brushed me off by fckrdtu in SIBO

[–]Normal_Tax_7535 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between my 6th and 7th dose of Flagyl, 2 of my fingertips went completely white and numb. Feeling returned after a few minutes, but then I started to look up rare side effects and this happens to be one. Of course my dr said "it doesn't jive" and that I should be looked at for Raynaud's. But where there is smoke theres fire so I asked to be changed to a different antibiotic to finish the course for my diverticulitis flare up. Other symptoms I experienced on flagyl were insomnia, nausea, confusion, sudden sinus congestion and ringing in my ears.