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Sam Womer (PA)

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Do any other YTers haul drinking water? Mrs. And I just got back from a trip to the spring with 40 gallons of fresh mountain spring water that even the fussiest consumers would approve of. It started years ago when I stopped at the spring on the way home from work and fille my water jug. My wife was hooked, we have been making trips there ever since. The spring is across the stream on a footbridge at the bottom of a mountain that has no access above except by foot so there is no runoff from traffic. The sprig is emptied into the stream through a 6 " steel pipe and the flow is steady year around.People come from far and near to get the " best water we ever tasted " . The best things in life are free.....
 
I don't haul water but I do have 3 springs on my place and one of them when my well was put in got made to run backwards due to the well driller using the small lake to cool his drill rig. He went down 15 feet and hit the spring and pumped things backwards
 
My son hauls about 11,000 gallons of water two or three times a day. He hauls water from a well in east Texas to a plant that bottles water. When the factory has a pallet that is damaged they set the good bottled water out for the drivers or plant workers to take for free so he keeps us stocked.
 
I have several springs on my place the two best ones are up on the mountain.One of those I have piped down to my garden it runs a 1" pipe of mountain spring water 24/7.Also have 2 wells with excellent water both are around 350 ft deep,plenty of good water in my area.
 
How does that work out for weight? 11,000 gallons of water weighs 88,000 pounds. Add that to the 33,000 or so empty weight of the average T/T and he could be grossing as much as 121,000 pounds.

Do they do that like Michigan does? There, you can haul as much weight as you have axles to put under it. I saw trailers there that had so many axles that there was no place for landing gear.
 
As a kid in SE Texas, my folks bought some land in the country. The family who owned the land also had a huge well and sold water to the neighbors, run through pipe and a meter.

I remember one time hearing that some new water regulations or inspections had become required and that a well inspector came out to inspect the well. The inspector looked in the well and had to do a double-take. He said even brand new wells are not that clean. The tank was about 20 feet deep and he could see all the way to the bottom! The tank was somewhere over 10 years old, but don't know how much over. No water treatment whatsoever, and also never a trace of hardness or rust at any neighbor's house.

I remember that he didn't use a well pump, but instead used compressed air to bring water up from the well.
 
Have a spring just outside the side door. House was built in 1912 and the spring was the water source until 1988 when a well was drilled. Water from the spring flows through a 2 inch pipe at full flow all year around. Even in the winter. Have separate pipes running to the basement and the water (54 degrees) is fed through a coil to provide air conditioning. My electric bill only goes up by $10 during the hottest summer months. Never have to worry about being out of water even if the electric power is off for days. Neighbor has a spring which used to feed her house until she was turned for having a no compliant water source. She had the spring water tested and the test report said the water was pure enough to be used in a baby food manufacturing facility. Her spring fed her house longer than mine as her house is older. Here ancestors were some of the first people to settle in this area.
 
Growing up we had a well, but it didn't have much water in the summer months. dad loaded a large tank on the 54 chevy flat bed, and went to the next town a couple miles away they had a 2 inch city water pipe along the road. Dad would hook up his hose and fill the tank,about every Sunday morning. Then pump it to out tank above the farm. This supplied water for our house, and both grandma's houses. Stan
 
I'm afraid I don't know the specifics. The company he works for has been hauling water for a long time so I'm sure they are within the legal limit. I know my son wouldn't do the job if it wasn't legal. He quit Fed-ex because they were pressuring him to haul hazardous materials in a door to door delivery truck. The trucks weren't marked for that and my son wasn't licensed for that either.
 
My aunt has two springs on her place I call the one the Fountain of youth because the water is so good . Spring comes from a bench where the valley drops up above are conventional farmed fields and huge pipeline that has leaked water for the last 100 years . I may have to go get my water glass and get some of that in the next few days
 
We have a 24 inch 70 foot shallow well. We don't trust the water as potable so we get about 45 gallons a month from a 700 foot deep aquifer well or use fill our containers from one of several reverse osmosis units in town.
 
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