What kind of water do you have?
@1creekgirl (40529)
United States
January 24, 2023 10:41am CST
Most people here in eastern NC have county water. They pay a water bill each month.
We have a deep well and our water comes from that. Not that we wouldn't rather have county water, but we didn't know residents were voting on it and the change over didn't pass.
Idiots.
The water here is hard with iron and lime which means we have to buy and maintain a water softener.
Our well is 40 years old and recently started giving bursts of water and air. We finally were able to get a repair man to fix it and thank goodness we didn't have to dig a new well.
I still get irritated when I remember we didn't even get to vote and just a small section of our area voted to keep using their wells.
Why? Wells wear out and new wells and and water softeners are expensive.
I know I should be thankful we have water...many places in the world don't...but it was such a foolish decision not to have a better solution.
And we didn't even get to accept or reject it.
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@RebeccasFarm (86769)
• United States
25 Jan 23
@1creekgirl Fine as far as I can tell Vicki..but I run it through a Brita Jug to try to purify it a little.
How are you love?
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@RebeccasFarm (86769)
• United States
25 Jan 23
@1creekgirl This is wonderful you are not feeling any Vicki..a miracle praise God
I hope you can get something for sleep then..it is so important.
Thank you for keeping me updated.
Oh I am not very well, cant put my finger on it Vicki.
Son ..another story. We all need prayer is the size of it Vicki, thanks for asking.
I never stop thinking and praying for you.
I hope you can get something for sleep then..it is so important.
Thank you for keeping me updated.
Oh I am not very well, cant put my finger on it Vicki.
Son ..another story. We all need prayer is the size of it Vicki, thanks for asking.
I never stop thinking and praying for you.1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
25 Jan 23
Some wells bring up good water. I wish ours did.
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@CarolDM (203452)
• Nashville, Tennessee
25 Jan 23
@1creekgirl We had good water from the well but some had issues with rust.
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
25 Jan 23
@CarolDM I found a good rust remover, but the lime or calcium buildup from the hard water is terrible.
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@FourWalls (62164)
• United States
24 Jan 23
I have city water, fresh (ha ha) out of the Ohio River with about 42 tons of chemicals to make it drinkable. You can kill somebody with our water, that’s how hard it is. 
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
25 Jan 23
Wow, city water and it's hard? Our water softener helps some.
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@FourWalls (62164)
• United States
25 Jan 23
@1creekgirl — the water comes out of the Ohio River, so they have to something to make it drinkable. 
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
25 Jan 23
What is a bore? I bet that rain water was good.
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@JudyEv (325818)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Jan 23
@1creekgirl A bore is like a well I guess but there is just a pipe that goes down into the ground and the water is pumped up.
Rainwater is just the best. It's really soft too - ideal for everything.
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
25 Jan 23
Mainly the expense would be the aggravation.
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@Ronrybs (17849)
• London, England
27 Jan 23
@1creekgirl Water softening is not common here, I think
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
29 Jan 23
Apparently there was a vote, but we didn't get the memo, lol, and just a small portion of our neighborhood voted against county water.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
31 Jan 23
@1creekgirl Yeesh. Oh well. I guess maybe next time...if it ever comes. lol
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@snowy22315 (170004)
• United States
24 Jan 23
I have a deep well too. I don't bother with a water softener. I had a guy work on the well, maybe 18 months ago. He said if I have further trouble with it, it will have to be rewired..so far it has been basically OK though.
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
8 Feb 23
I sure would like to believe that could happen.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
25 Jan 23
Here in our county here in eastern NC, we have several Sanitary Districts that provide the "county" water. When I first moved here 28 years ago and went to work for the CPA firm, auditing the Sanitary Districts was my first big assignment. Back then, the talk was that we'd have county sewer within ten years. Nope. Still using our septic tanks.
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@1creekgirl (40529)
• United States
25 Jan 23
We've been using gallon drinking or spring water for drinking and cooking, too.
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@LindaOHio (156276)
• United States
25 Jan 23
We have county water. Our well was determined to be unusable. I'm sorry you are stuck with well water.
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