Posted on 07/31/2023 6:59:24 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
As the drought in eastern Nebraska worsens, imagine not having any running water for over a month.
That's what one rural Lancaster County family has been dealing with.
Jeff and Jenni Gall had their water shut off by the rural water district, not because they weren't paying their bills but because of a technicality when they bought their home.
A million-dollar home and not a drop of running water.
"No water. No water," Jenni Gall said as she tried turning on the facets in her kitchen.
The family of six have been surviving by filling bathtubs to flush toilets and bottles to drink and wash.
"This is the water to use to wash your hands. And this is the box for drinking water," Jenni Gall said.
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Last I heard on this story was the owner of the water connection was allowing the family to use the water until they could figure out an arrangement.
This is almost 2 months old. ??
“The Galls hired an attorney.”
In other news, local rancher shuts barn door after horses escape.
The first house we bought had city water. The meter was at the top of our hill in a cul-de-sac. It ran through the neighbors house at the top of the hill, down to my neighbors over to our house. The sellers of our house were going through a divorce so every time there was a change in the water agreement, four different lawyers had to review before it was finalized. I bet we went through 4-6 iterations.
Fast forward 10 years later & the line broke. Asked my neighbor if he would let me put a well in vs. paying for a new line & he signed a release. Nice man & went to his funeral a year or so ago.
Yes but I thought it was interesting & thought I’d post after seeing the other real estate article about a Connecticut man being defrauded out of his lot.
You would think that the family and the guy who bought the farm land could work out a deal. Pay whatever percentage of the water, the families using, and just reimburse the guy. Why does it have to be a Philadelphia lawsuit with all these attorneys involved with two people should be able to sit down and work out the problem
“You would think that the family and the guy who bought the farm land could work out a deal.”
The meter can only be used to device one site. He wants to retain that meter for his possible future use.
Whisky is for drinking, water for fighting.
Water rights in Nebraska can get messy.
Water rights in Nebraska can get messy.
Even worse in western Colorado.
What I believe what has happened is the owner of the connection doesn’t have an immediate need so is letting the family use it without giving up his rights. What is disheartening is the rural water won’t let them connect when people near rural water lines are notorious for tapping into the lines without paying.
“What is disheartening is the rural water won’t let them connect when people near rural water lines are notorious for tapping into the lines without paying.”
Legally they can’t allow that. The homeowners don’t own rights to the meter thus the company has no way to bill them.
There are lots of home owners in AZ that rely on hauled water., even fill swimming pools. I think that those with swimming pools usually have some water from a well, but not enough to support a household.
I haul my own here.
Some Californian bought the out local guy who hauled for us and she tripled the price per load. She thought she was really the limit and now has trucks sitting with nothing to do.
The water company seems to be especially a-hole here, but I thought there were certain inherent warranty rights in home sales to cover unknown problems like this. Since nearly all of Nebraska sits over the Ogallala Aquifer it’s hard to believe they coudln’t drill a well, but maybe Lincoln is right on the edge of the aquifer. The water table is so high at places along the Platte River that you can hit water at 25 ft.
#4 You killed him over the water rights.... 😲
That was my point. Rural water is notorious for people illegally tapping into their lines & doing little to catch them. The people that bought the house are willing to have a new, legal metered connection & rural water isn’t allowing it.
Have a couple friends in AZ with wells & they’re from Nebraska & they talk about the poor quality of the AZ water. I believe it even contains low levels of arsenic.
My well is 155 feet deep decent water good flow. We, like many, have an elaborate water conditioner that requires monthly attention and also a septic system that we have pumped out every 2 years just to stay ahead of the curve. We have sinking funds to have money set aside for repairs such as a new pump and even an upcoming replacement of the pump pit enclosure.
When my friends at work inform me that I have free water I just laugh. I have to think that the family in this story have it figured out that getting connected to the water company even hiring a lawyer to represent them is much less expensive than establishing and maintaining a private well.
Arsenic is found in most areas of former volcanic activity. Selenium is also found in most of theses areas. Selenium flushes the arsenic from the body, making the arsenic harmless. New Mexico has the highest est amounts of arsenic in the water of all the states in the US, it also has the lowest rate of the bladder cancer that is supposed to be caused by the arsenic.
I know this because, I read it in the Harvard Arsenic study, which was posted on-line in full before it was re-written to fit Democrat purposes.
The Leftists in WA have taken away the water rights to all rural property in unincorporated areas of the state. They claim that an old Indian treaty gives the tribes the rights to all the water. In some areas, they have made it illegal to place a cistern or rain barrel on your own property without permission from the government. So far, they are only enforcing the water rights seizure in Whatcom County and one county on the peninsula. No one has thought of hauling the water, yet. Since there is an abundance of water in WA during nine months of the year, it wouldn’t be a bad idea.
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