Re: Water
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Water
- From: D* E*
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:31:03 -0500
Debi,
That was a blooper on my part! It really comes to .0065/gal with an access
fee of $26.50. So if there is no water use at all, it's $26.50 and then
goes up from there. With a 4-5 acre yard that is constantly thirsty even
without the current drought conditions, that impinges on any hope for
anything but the bread line during retirement unless I curtail use
drastically. Unfortunately, this is the third rate increase in as many
years, so use has already been curtailed to the point I have had to watch a
lot of plants and work simply die off the last several years. Talk about
survival of the fittest! May be just as well. All the reservoirs are very
low here and unless we start getting more rain than has been the case, at
some point water rationing will be a necessity. In those circumstances some
things that require more water than is available in order to survive can't
make it anyway, and I'm ahead of that misery. What I'm trying to do is come
with some alternate mean(s) of storing and having water to use.
Unfortunately, the water well attempt resulted in a dry hole. The other
methods I've come up with require an initial start-up cost that I'm not
prepared to expend at the moment. So I'm left with long-term plans that may
or may not happen, as circumstances allow.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Debi Schmitt <otisbird@fix.net>
To: iris-talk@Yahoogroups.com <iris-talk@Yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] Water
>>Every gallon of water used is
>>going to cost $6.50. With an access rate of $26.50, it won't take long to
>>go bankrupt. Wish that water well I tried for hadn't been a dry hole!
>>Guess I'll start evaluating the native prickly pear when they bloom to
>>replace the iris. I think that distilled water in the grocery store might
>>be cheaper.
>
>My water out of the tape is awful here so I buy bottled water for $.69 a
>gallon. It's culligan water.
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