[TheForge] OT frozen pipes

[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> I'm astounded!..Had no idea they went that deep for water...
> That means your well is well over 3000'?

	Mine is 580 but towns like Flagstaff and Williams are 7500' above MSL. 
  If you hit water at 3000' down, you're still over 4000' high.  We're 
pretty low here in WV at 2800', but you still feel the altitude in the 
temperature.  This past summer, the nights were in the mid-50s - 
sometimes lower.

> My last place had 5 hand dug wells on the property. Each one had a round 
> brick wall about 6' across and was about 25 feet deep. It was funky 
> surface water that got pretty salty on a dry year. That water ate pipes 
> at an astounding rate.
> The ocean has washed it all away now.

	The land?  Where in CA?  I used to live in San Mateo, then in Davis for 
several years.  Naturally I had to do the LA thing for a few years as well.