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I am purchasing a home in a rural area and have a private well. I amm looking for any health hazards that might occur using the well water as I have 2 small children.

someone may pee in it. oh yeah, and they could fall in

2006-04-06 18:57:52 by damiens96

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The house I'm looking to buy has a private sewer and private water well and I was wondering what are the pros and cons to each financially, aesthetically, etc.?
How much is a private septic to maintain on the average? I mean seeing as how the home is super cheap and I make a pretty large sum of money, I'm not that worried, but I do want to be sure.

Having a private well and septic myself , I can lay it out for you.

1- Private well Pro
-no water bill
-no chemically laden municipal water
-no water restrictions
-more control over quality of water

Con-
- must test your water once a year *good to know your water
-water softener system may be necessary added expense of maintaining it
-more responsibility but you have more control over your health.

2- Private Sewer- Pro
- easy to maintain (some enzymes once a month, inspection and pump out every 2-5 years depending on usage)
-no tied to city sewer so if their is a problem with that --you are not affected.

Con-
- must be alert to your water usage, toliet running endlessely, too many laundry loads
- can just flush anything down the toilet
- more responsibility

As for aesthetically-- all you see is a small well head for the well and a manhole cover (small) for the sewer). never smells.

The costs to maintain usually are lot less than if I had to pay for water. At least where I live

Hope that helps.

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Private Sewer-- $3.00 /month for enzyme -- you flush down toilet every month --- and pump the septic clean every 2 to 5 years depending on sizer of septic tank and amount of people in house --cost $200-300 buck to pump--- its pretty cheap to maintain.

2008-07-11 16:24:16 by Sushi Lover <3

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Too many variables to say with certainty. Depends on how the well was built, with what materials, and the aggressivity of the water in corroding or destroying the well casing and screen (if you even have). Frequent overpumping can ruin a well also.

In most circumstances, decades is a reasonable time frame to expect. You are likely to need to replace the pump before you need to replace the well, assuming that nothing from the outside is affecting the water quality. Having said that, it is not unusual to need to occasionally verify the integrity of the well, that the well has remained sealed against the influx of near surface (and more likely contaminated) groundwater.

I know of many many many private wells that have been in continual use for decades without serious problems, but have also been involved in replacing such wells, some installed as recently as 15 years. No simple answer to your question. very much depends on circumstances and quality of the installation.

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We run a small non-profit and found that no one tests water where we are so we want to start testing and mapping wells. All tests will need to be bought in the States and taken to Cambodia. We have no lab and don't want to spend a ton on tests since the more tests costs the less money for wells. I am thinking of the easy gel tests for coliforms and maybe arsenic. Any info or suggestions would be great.

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2007-03-22 20:49:03 by bobincambodia

Cost?
Quality? (Private tastes better than public, to me!)

Is eliminating water and sewer bills worth getting private?

* Trying to decide what to use on NEW CONSTRUCTION *
I live in Maine.

With public services, you pay a little bit all the time, with yearly charges for sewer and water. With private, you don't pay anything at all very often, but when you do pay, you can pay an awful lot all at once and you have to do more than make a phone call if something goes wrong. The last place I lived had public water, which cost me $600 a year. The water wasn't great but it was there. In this place, I had a well drilled 2 years ago. Cost me $10,000, but it will be quite a while before it costs anything again, other than the electricity to run the pump. The water isn't so great from my well, either, it's quite alkaline, but at least it isn't heavily chlorinated. One advantage of public water is that in a power outage, you still have water. With private on a pump, no power means no running water, or not for long anyway unless you keep a generator. In a long outage in winter, you've got a problem because you have no power to keep things warm ,and you can't run water to keep your lines from freezing. There's no guarantee what your well water will be like, there's no guarantee how much of it you'll get, there's no telling how deep they'll have to go to get it, and you should have it tested for safety factors once a year or so. As I say, mine is adequate but doesn't taste wonderful. I know someone 10 miles away who has really great tasting water, and the people across the road from me have water that looks and tastes swampy to me. My well is drilled and deep, theirs is dug and shallow. One neighbour has water at 50 feet, I had to go to 110, and what exactly do you do if they drill and don't find anything? You still have to pay them for drilling, and if they get to $10,000 worth and there's no water, then what? Keep drilling, cross your fingers and check your line of credit, or tell them to stop and pay for what amounts to nothing?

Septic systems are similar. They're expensive to install, compared to hooking up to a sewer in most places, though a lot depends on your specific location. If you have to put in a treatment plant of some kind, they have operating expenses. Septic needs a bit more daily consideration than a sewer line, as well as pumping now and then, and one day you'll have to replace some or all of it which is expensive and you'll have to replace your lawn. Then again, I once paid almost $10,000 to sort out a problem with a city sewer line backing up for no apparent reason.

Another poster's reply reminded me. The last place I lived, there was no sewer when I built, so of course I had to put septic in. Around the time I sold, 13 years later, they were talking about putting in a sewer which had been planned many years before but not installed when nearby areas were done. If they installed it, I would have had to pay a couple of thousand dollars for the line running in front of my property, even if I didn't hook up to it. Something to keep in mind if you're in an area that's getting built up.

2009-08-09 16:00:01 by Mademoiselle Petite Chou