Where do you get your water from?

So are you hinting that the Lake name has changed? Thanks to 911, a lot of our roads have been renamed up here. Causes some confusion since people knew the old names and now they have to learn the new ones. After the movie, Broke Back Moutain, a mountain in VT was changed to that, I don't know what it was before, but I don't think people lived there, just hiked it.

No I was a little kid when Kennedy was assacinated. First politician I personally remember. But I remember reading about her in history books. She was quite the woman.

I turned 10 the day after JFK was assassinated - but since LBJ was a "local" we heard more about him than you might've - Lady Bird owned the main TV station in town and when they were forced to allow another station in town, they developed one of the first cable companies in the U.S. Granted, we only had the stations on the "rotation of the dial" but we went from 1 TV station to 11 very suddenly. We got KTBC (then CBS mostly) and a UHF station that was mostly NBC - and we got 4, 5, 12 and another one out of San Antonio (12 was ABC) and the 2 out of Temple & the PBS station that we were supposed to be getting ANYWAY from San Antonio but didn't very well. The number 7 was useless because that's where KTBC was broadcasting and it was a really powerful signal (its the one then owned by the Johnson's.) Seems there were a few more, but I may be wrong... - oh - #6 was a display of the dials of a temp reading - really boring, but sometimes they played some okay radio station on it...

I have heard plenty of other horror stories about ice makers which is why the last fridge we bought doesn't have one. I think the flooding is fairly common.

Chlorine ruins the taste for me, esp. in a restraurant, can't taste the food, only the chlorine. A guy, my husband works with, said the ice maker house broke while he and his family were on vacation. Flooded the kitchen, ruined the floor, overheated the water pump and cost them lots of money. Until then, I thought an ice maker might be nice, but now I don't. So I can see why you don't have an ice maker, your way is safer for your house. I not only mess with ice cubes, I make freezer pops.

They have to replace their floor and their water pump will probably die soon if it hasn't already.

Sounds like they're taking good care of you. Our nearest city has water that tastes like chlorine pool water. Not sure when it's tested. Funny thing that many other places have had "boil water" orders, but they haven't. I hope it's bested often. Of course with that much chlorine, should kill anything, maybe even people.

Wow, Canada and Texas. Pretty neat. 12 feet is extremely shallow. There must be a mountain source or something for it to still be pure. Alamo must have a pretty big population. Thanks and take care.

Yeah, pure mountain spring water is the best tasting. Nothing beats it, no wonder you wanted to take some home. Your aunt and uncle probably could have started a bottling plant! Thanks for responding and take care

That's really good that you have two sources of water and that you know about them. Many people turn on their taps and don't know. Thanks for responding and take care.

Not sure I understand. You get large containers at the bottle store so you don't have to buy some bottles or what? I'm lost.

It's a good idea to know these things. After 911, some places have security in place so terrorists can't get to most cities water supplies. Not all wells are created equal. One well I had was fantastic. Then it went dry, the new one I dug, the disolved iron in it is horrible and we have one area where the disolved sulfer in it is horrible. Iron ruins clothes and appliances. Suffer doesn't do much except smell like rotten eggs and make everything else smell like it. Glad your experience with a well was a wonderful one. Thanks for responding and take care.

Unless terrorists polute mountains, wells should be fine. It's aquafers for cities that are on full alert since 911. That's why it's a good idea for city people to know who is guarding their water supply. Iron and sulpher water come from minerals disolved in the water. If the water is going through mostly sand, it's very clean. If it's going through ore deposits, it's dirty. That's why when my well dried up, the next place we drilled had iron water, it's going through Potsdam soil (iron soil). People who live near our lakes tend to have sulpher water. We have lots of iron mines here. I don't know why sulpher water, but there must be layers of it near the water.

My experence with wells was many years ago before any 911 situation was an issue I am happy to say. Take care.