Think your water bill is high?

[KBScobravert]

ours is 450ft deep... with about a 200ft limestone formation on top of it. The water tastes awesome

How much is a well that deep running these days?

[mikec]

How much is a well that deep running these days?

When my wife and I were looking at building in Farmersville 8 years ago, water was at about the 450' mark and we were quoted right at $100 per foot.

With no guarantee of water!

[Cooter]

How much is a well that deep running these days?

the full bill drilled, cased, pump, reserve tank, wired and plumbed to the house was like $7k according to the lady we bought the place from.

once the reserve tank is depleted, the water comes out so cold. it feels awesome in the summer

[Forever_frost]

we had this happen to us. Lazy meter reader would just guess based off of last months numbers and move on. After 3 months of doing that followed by 3 months of not reading and not even guessing we got hit with 95,000 usage = $460 water bill.

I had a nice discussion with my water company for the same thing. They insisted that it was read accurately and I did owe a $200 bill. I asked how the guy was reading it when the meter was on the backside of the new fence, he would have had to come inside the gate, walk around it, clear the grass that had grown up, scoop out the dirt that had covered it over the months (I had to do all of this to second check the numbers, they just added a zero to the prior month's numbers) and then pry open the meter lid (it was sealed shut with dirt) and then wipe off the meter face as it was caked in mud as well.

The lady looked at me and said "Well, do you want to dispute your reading?"

Really? After all that?

[mikec]

the full bill drilled, cased, pump, reserve tank, wired and plumbed to the house was like $7k according to the lady we bought the place from.

once the reserve tank is depleted, the water comes out so cold. it feels awesome in the summer

Damn! That beats hell out of the quotes we got!

[GhostTX]

I love being on well water

Love well water. I miss it.

[fordracing19]

Damn! That beats hell out of the quotes we got!

I called two weeks ago and got quoted $29ft for a 550ft well.

[KBScobravert]

the full bill drilled, cased, pump, reserve tank, wired and plumbed to the house was like $7k according to the lady we bought the place from.

once the reserve tank is depleted, the water comes out so cold. it feels awesome in the summer

Our next door neighbor uses a well for irrigation and SHTF water. The previous owner of our house was going to go half on the system back in 2008 but decided to back out when they put the house on the market. Half would have cost $2000 according to my neighbor and of course the rights to the well would have come with the house purchase. Now the same well would cost me 6-7 times that much.