Happy New Year to you as well, Bob. Your plumbing, heating, remodeling plans are very ambitious, to say the least. All that is well behind me these days. I'm well into my retirement years and soaking up the warmth of southern Arizona.
I grew up outside Denver on property with an artesian well. We supplied water to neighbors on both sides of our property. As you mentioned, the water was a constant cool delicious temperature, and more than all three families could ever use. Sadly, World War 2 happened, and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal developed just a couple miles away. All the secret stuff that went on there to produce ammunition, bombs and who knows what, eventually poisoned all the wells in the area. They were dumping waste of all kinds into deep, drilled holes in the earth.
Nothing was ever done about that as far as I remember (I was pretty young). Sometime after the war ended and production changed at the arsenal. Soon the area began to experience earthquakes. I don't remember that it was ever proven the deep dumping was the cause. Interestingly, the earthquakes stopped almost as suddenly as they started.... once the deep dumping stopped. Different times to be sure.
I am a regular lurker on Kirk's board and totally enjoy most who post here. I'm glad Kirk is able to keep his thumb on any of the occasional trollers that attempt to stir up problems. That's increasingly rare here on SI.
Have a prosperous year! Over n out..... |
