Re: Dry Zones

In a message dated 6/30/02 4:35:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:

<< Pat,
 Yes municipal water is wayyy too expensive!  I envy you the well.  My
 understanding of city law is that it is illegal here to have a well or any
 other source of water EXCEPT city water.  Bah, humbug! >>

But Marilyn, clean drinking water is very expensive to produce from your tap. 
 The restrictions here are to deter people from using these underground 
automatic systems to keep the grass green.  If you want to sprinkle your 
acres on automatic timers and run expensive water all over the cities, I 
guess you will have pay for it.  A hand held hose is far less expensive.  
Since I have litttle use for grass, I guess I can say this and not have to 
duck in my house but a lot of homeowners like grass.

Which brings me around to say to you that since you are a business that 
requires water shouldn't you have a water agreement apart from the grass 
guys.  I think in many places here nurseries have different billing systems 
than people with two acres of lawn.  A lot of business requires water and 
there is a commercial agreement for them.  I throw this out as we have a 
nursery in our family and water is used by them in the night to storage and 
in the day as wanted.   They cannot hook on in the high usage hours and that 
lowers the bill.  They also collect rainwater and are beginning to design a 
system for exclusive rainwater usage.  

All Eastern cities have reservoir systems and none as far as I know have any 
water shortages this summer.  It is the suburbs that have the problems as 
they seem to build up faster than the water and sewerage can keep up.  Then 
they buy water from the cities and you get a meter on your house and pay up.  
The older cities were (and some still are not) not metered.  Meters are 
coming on with a passion now. They cause property owners to fix leaks which 
previously went unrepaired.  Since I have lived in both city and suburb, I 
can tell you the suburb is far more expensive for not owning reservoir 
systems.

We have a friend who upon drilling, hit what is called an artesian well.  I 
don't know why that term is used but it means than water comes out of ground 
endlessly day and night and if on your property, it is all yours.  
Apparently, it is a luck thing.

It is, for once in June, not raining today.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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