OT Alkaline water

Dug a well for irrigating, Pretty high PH and alkaline. Any one have experience with such?

Alkaline water is sooooooft. Wonderful for washing your body and hair. Hot water sacrificial elements last 6 years, regardless of how much you pay for your hot water heater.....expect short life. Would be neat to just replace them but you can't get them out and nobody sells them. Plumbing fixtures tolerate it very well. Still have faucets I installed 40 years ago.

Salt tollerant plants might live. We had 1600ppm disolved solids Calcium and Magnesium salts. (and compressed natural gas) great to wash with, could not drink it at all, and it killed plants. Jim

I don't have an annual water report in front of me. We have 3 community wells now and are inspected by the state. Pass all the requirements with flying colors. We water vegetation, ourselves and our animals just like you would water with any water. No filtration on any of the faucets in the house or out. Does leave spots on your truck if you don't Chamos/towel it off.

I AM picky about my morning coffee, which I am enjoying as I type this and use 8 O'Clock original blend, med roast, whole bean and
Ozarka spring water from Texas springs. Like Coors beer adds, water does make a difference (with my coffee). Course I enjoyed my rocky mountain "Koolaid" over the years too but that's long gone now. No beer no diabetes. Works for me.

Best water I ever knew of was in Texas. Mom & Dad had bought their land from one family (the M's), and [i:4e4b0a60c0]his[/i:4e4b0a60c0] father supplied the whole area with water from his well. He had been supplying water for many years when a state inspector stopped by one day and asked how long it had been since his last inspection. He looked at the inspector a bit odd and said he had never been inspected. Uh-oh!

Well, the inspector was expecting the worst. Old Man 'M' showed him to the well and he proceeded to open up the well's storage tank and have a looksee. He turned on his flashlight and was shocked!! He could see right clear to the bottom of the underground tank! After a couple minutes of silent amazement, he turned to Old Man 'M' and said he usually couldn't see clear to the bottom in a BRAND NEW tank and well, and certainly never a tank that was crystal clear! That same tank had been there and in use for over 20 years at the time, and the well was probably more than 40 years old, but had originally been drilled for ag/livestock use before they started selling off portions of the land. ...Sure do miss that water! However, the water we have here is nearly as good. ...Or at least it [i:4e4b0a60c0]was[/i:4e4b0a60c0]! A neighbor set a fire that burned our land and took out the old barn, which sat 3' away from the well. Now the old barn slab is fully exposed to the elements and is leeching lots of minerals into the ground, which are being pumped into the house. In addition, the fire took out the pump house and burned through the lines, which has allowed some sort of bacteria to get in the lines. So now if there is ANY part of the water lines in the house that sits for more than a week, it has a horrible, almost sulfur smell to it. So we're not drinking the water anymore. Hoping to re-do the well and all the water lines within the next year or two - or maybe relegate that old well just for outside and drill a new well for the house.

I worked for the Texas agency that regulates Public Water Supplies (not private wells) and for the past 9 years have managed the operation of my rural water system. For an irrigation well the mineral content is more important. My water comes from a limestone aquifer and is somewhat alkaline but has a fairly high mineral content. If fact the fluoride in one of our wells exceeded the regulatory limit and we had to plug it. About a mile east of our well the water will kill grass. Mineral content can lead to buildup in the soil. As for plumbing fixtures, I Was changing faucets and ice makers annually until I got a water softener. If you haven't already done it I'd recommend a
chemical analysis for minerals, especially salts.