Lawmakers Eye Regulating Well Users (NC Government intrusion alert!

WRAL.com ^

[RangerM]

Raleigh, N.C. — State lawmakers are considering a proposal that would require homeowners and businesses that use private wells to report on how much water they consume.

[RangerM]

More government intrusion on our private lives. Maybe we'll start voting out these dems in NC government.

[ComputerGuy]

What part of private don't they understand ?
Oh wait, they're Democrats. Never mind.

[RangerM]

Their only "talking" about differing proposals right now. I'm curious if they'd try to make me spend my $$ installing some sort of water meter.

Here's a quote in that article:

But Georgiann Fonte, who gets her water through Raleigh's municipal system and has had to curb her gardening because of tight water restrictions, said regulating well users is a matter of fairness.

"All of us have to conserve. If we don't, we may not have drinking water or bathing water," Fonte said. "I would think they'd want to conserve just for the fact they won't want their wells to run dry."

I can only shake my head. Whose well is it anyway?

[raybbr]

Here in a town in CT they made everyone cap their wells and use municipal water. Cost big bucks.

How is one wasting water by pumping it from one hole into the ground (well) to another hole in the ground (septic system)?

[RangerM]

Here in a town in CT they made everyone cap their wells and use municipal water. Cost big bucks.

Thankfully, things are just too spread out in NC for that to even be a possibility. I moved out of Cary to get away from government, as much as to get a bigger house. If they actually try to start such a program, I can't believe it wouldn't flip the balance of power in the NC Gov't to the Republicans. Too many "old Democrats" would never put up with it.

[G Larry]

Ha!
Too Late!
They’ve already done that here in Colorado.
They stopped farmers from using their own wells for a significant period, within the past few years.

[magslinger]

How is one wasting water by pumping it from one hole into the ground (well) to another hole in the ground (septic system)?

Life long city dwellers. To them, water is piped into their homes clean and pure (OK, it's cloudy, smells a bit off and has been intentionally contaminated with chlorine and fluorine, but to them it's pure.) used once and returns even more contaminated than it came. They neither see nor understand that there is a natural recycling of water going on all the time, forever.

[RangerM]

Fortunately they have NOT done that here....yet.

Too bad about Colorado. Watering crops with treated water doesn’t work as well.

These fools don’t realize that our municipal water (Raleigh, NC) mostly comes from rain, not wells.

[RangerM]

I never realized just how much chlorine was there until I moved to my new house a little over a year ago.

Now I can smell it when I use water from a municipal source.

[G Larry]

Statists never let facts get in the way of imposing their will.

[magslinger]

I used to spend summers in a couple of places that had the best well water. Around here, though, it’s a different story. City water is treated and actually tastes better than the well water. Local well water is very hard and you get your RDA of iron with every glass.

[dearolddad]

Statists never let facts get in the way of imposing their will.

We live in Union County, NC. If I am to believe the low grade morons that run this county, the sewer system is at capacity, and water is almost gone. So.. what is the answer? Keep approving more and more housing development.

[RangerM]

I work for an engineering/consulting company. We have some fairly extensive analytical (in-house) capabilities. The lab analyzed my water and measured it as pure as the water that comes out of our lab’s purification system. I hope it stays that way. So far, after about 1.5 years, I still have no hazing of my (glass) coffee pot.

The only thing I’ve noticed is that clothes don’t come out of the laundry as clean and bright without additional cycle time (or non-chlorine bleach). I don’t know if I should attribute that to the lack of chlorination or the (different) washer.

[raybbr]

The only thing I’ve noticed is that clothes don’t come out of the laundry as clean and bright without additional cycle time (or non-chlorine bleach). I don’t know if I should attribute that to the lack of chlorination or the (different) washer.

Is your water hard or soft. We have water that has a hardness of 3 on a scale of 0 to 200. It's the softest water I have ever encountered. We have to use very little soap or the suds will take forever to rinse.

[Zeppo]

How long before they start metering (and taxing) the air that you breathe, too?

[Peet]

*chuckle* I’m not in NC - happy to say! We had our well drilled in 1998 (the driller said it almost broke his rig) and it has been spewing 3 to 4.5 gallons a MINUTE ever since. If we capped it, the pressure would build until it blew the casing out of the hole.

Love those artesian wells...

Peet

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We have a new 210 foot well associated with the new house we built 5 years ago. Very hard water here in Missouri but plenty of it. There was a shallow well on the property and our well driller filled it with stone and capped it, in accordance with Missouri regulations.

[stevio]

Is that well water or city?

[Dead Corpse]

Got tar and feathers?

[magslinger]

I would tend to blame the washer, especially if it is a newer “water saving” machine.