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Originally Posted by pwd72s

This thread makes me realize how lucky I am when it comes to water. No treatment needed, and shallow enough to place an old gunsmoke style hand pump on the well head to use in power outages. When looking at the place the shallow well had me nervous. So I called a school classmate whose family homesteaded the area. He told me I'd never pump it dry, and was told to not go deeper or I'd hit bad water.

His advice has been spot on for...gosh, almost 40 years.

(edit) one of many times in my life that I learned local knowledge can be priceless.

My parents old house had great water. It tasted great, and when they had it tested, the guy said that it was super clean due to the sandy soil (FL panhandle). They had a small filter that they replaced periodically for the particulates.