HERE IS HOW MUCH OUR HOMESTEAD WATER WELL COST US 💰
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2023
- We drilled a well on our homestead. We are currently on a municipal water source but we use a lot of water for irrigating our market garden crops. I wrestled a lot with the idea of drilling a well vs rain water catchment tanks or an irrigation pond. We ended up drilling the well despite me wrestling through the concept of drilling wells. Regardless, here is what the well drilling cost us and what the project will likely cost to complete. I also share some of my thoughts on drilling a well if you are thinking about it for your homestead or small scale farm #drillingawell #homestead #homesteading #drillingahonesteadwell #drillingawaterwell #marketgardening #marketgarden #gardening #garden #gardenwaterwell #offgridwater #rainwatercatchmentvsdrillingawell #smallscalefarm
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If you do drill a well, and if it's a reasonable depth, around 100 ft like mine, don't be afraid of having them punch and pack the well and go away. It is super easy to rent a walk behind trench machine, drop and set the pump, build your well house, and put hydrants anywhere you want, parts cost, and your labor only. I paid $2,700 for them to do a 94ft well, and about the same amount to set 5 hydrants and build a well house, electricity, and all required parts about 6 years ago. Also, you can trench electricity out to your garden while you have the trencher, and that comes in handy for electric fence chargers or radio to keep deer away at night. Plus... once you do it, you have all the repair knowledge and confidence required to maintain it yourself.
I’ve had a mother friend of mine tell me to the do the rest of the work myself just like you are saying. It feels intimidating but I know I can make it happen
Water is a must!
In India its $ 1.3/feet for drilling
Wow, thanks for the info. So glad my well is already in place. We were considering putting a second one on the back of our property to make watering easier, but I get good pressure and tasty water from my current well and may just work with that. Off to goggle other water ideas for gardens not near the house😂
Lol. Yea it’s definitely a nice plus if your home already has a well drilled!
Add water catchment to your roofing, if the roofing is metal.
Morning i do rain water catching i got a 55 gallon food grade tank it works well for me.
Rainwater catchment is awesome and we all need to be doing more of it
@@tannerfarmstead Its illegal in some western states. Colorado for one.
When is the beat time to dig a well? I am in the process or hire a well driller this week. However, the permits may not be issued until in a week or two. I live in a cold weather environment, and there was two snow days this years.
$68ft in Colorado. Have to be anywhere from 600-1200 ft to hit a good vein. We just paid $66,800 for ours.
Will definitely be doing rain water catchments as well.
Wow. That’s crazy expensive. Thanks for sharing the prices in your state.
Thanks for sharing. What state are located?
Well, we're on municipal. 20 acres, cattle. We do try to irrigate some pasture. We use about 750,000 gallons at a cost of ~$1200 a year. Which seems cheap to a former Californian. However, our municipal system is run by a board that selects its replacement members so is not representative of the owners/customers. They own 4 wells: 3, 16 inch and one 8 inch and have 1/4 million gallon reservoir, boost pumps and backup generators. Sounds like a lot of production and it is. Reliable it is not. Three times a month the system will fail. Only happens when one of us is in the shower. One of the 16 inch wells is new and half the reservoir was built at the same time. $1.6 million which breaks down to $6800 per parcel. We own two parcels. Did we get to vote on that? no. Is it a bond that will pay off over 20 years or so? no. It's a "Local Improvement District, a lien against the property which has to be satisfied before you can sell, refi, even pay off your mortgage because you can't record a title against a property with a lien on it. They drilled that most recent hole even though one of the existing 16 inch wells is unused. It's inconveniently located. So, rather than use it and negotiate with the property owners across who's property they would need to run pipe, they abandoned it, after spending a bunch of money to buy it. We're over the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer so water is a near done deal but it's 570 feet down there. It wouldn't be cheap for a land owner but if it got me out of paying those liens (it won't) and got me away from the goofball water board, I'd be tempted to do it.
In short, each of my liens is as much as your hole. We don't even have service to the second parcel but we pay $18 a month for the "privilege" of having their pipe within 300' of our property line. To connect would be $12,000 plus the cost of a meter, pipe, valves and labor to do the connection and that just gets the water onto the property. All other plumbing is on top of that.
@@rogergreaves9690 You have my empathy. Just reading about this is scary. All these boards, be it HOA's, sewer or water districts, lake improvement districts, etc. are major predatory infringements on private property rights and I despise all of it. In MN, municipal water and sewer bills are sky high and fixed rate for sewer so I am paying as much for my single person household as my neighbors with a household of eight people. If you get behind on the sewer bill, the penalty is 10% per month, plus $50 - $140 each time they decide to certify it to your real estate taxes. It escalates really fast and a homeowner could potentially lose their home over huge water and sewer bills that they can't pay and have been certified to their taxes. So much for "owning" our own property. In reality, we have long term leases.
What would be the pros and cons of rainwater tank vs a rack of food grade 55 gal plastics drums? I can get the drums for free is why I’m asking
You will just need A LOT of 55 gallon drums to hold all your water
@@tannerfarmstead what’s a good baseline to have in storage per person/ square footage of garden?
You should get someone to dowse for water first, as they can find the best water location to tap. It is not weird or dark. It is science.
I was wondering about that. It seems like a good idea.
@@dao8805 So far, I cannot get it to work, but Christian men in my family did it. My Great Uncle thought it was fake, until a friend had him try it. He found a water pipe. It is apparently connected to electromagnetism, as it can also be used to find electrical lines. Engineer775 uses it.
@@dao8805 So far, I cannot get it to work, but Christian men in my family did it. My Great Uncle thought it was fake, until a friend had him try it. He found a water pipe. It is apparently connected to electromagnetism, as it can also be used to find electrical lines.
@@dao8805 So far, I cannot get it to work, but Christian men in my family did it. My Great Uncle thought it was fake, until a friend had him try it. He found a water pipe. It is apparently connected to electromagnetism, as it can also be used to find electrical lines. Engineer775 uses it.
@@dao8805 @dao8805 So far, I cannot get it to work, but Christian men in my family did it. My Great Uncle thought it was fake, until a friend had him try it. He found a water pipe. It is apparently connected to electromagnetism, as it can also be used to find electrical lines. Engineer775 uses it.
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