Red Oak, while we're on the subject of water...

[millergrovesue]

...will you be digging a well? How deep do you have to go to hit water out there? What's the quality? I'm just curious.

I remember, from the Texas novels I read about that area, that some of the water was undrinkable - but I think they mostly were talking about surface ponds, creeks, etc.

I was on the co-op water board here for several years. It was quite educational. There aren't too many personal wells around us because water is just too deep in most areas. Individuals can't afford to dig that deeply for water. Community wells here hit decent water supplies at about 800-900'. While I was on the board we dug one good and one dud well. I think the good well wound up being 925'. On the flip side, when we lived in Illinois (Bob stationed at Scott AFB) we had a personal well (old hand dug 3' wide and brick lined) that was only 70' deep and never ran out of good cold water.

[Red Oak]

The first Aquifer is around 100 feet deep, 30 to 60 feet thick.

It maybe too Gyppie to drink without filtering and reverse osmosis or it may be drinkable. The closest two wells are Gyp water, but drinkable.

[millergrovesue]

So it tastes salty? Yeah, that's what I remember reading about, gyp water.

Sounds like an easy aquifer to reach if it's dependable.

I think I've mentioned before that our water is very high in fluoride. Tastes like the ocean and is really really soft. The soft we can live with but the water taste is horrible. The reverse osmosis filter makes it really good and is relatively inexpensive. It's the only kind of filter we've used that worked on this water. Those Britta things and all the others we tried, except the distiller, are a joke. Distiller took too long (I think about 8 hours) and only made a gallon at a time.

[Red Oak]

A little Salty, it isn't called the Salt Fork of the Brazos by mistake.

[ann jusko]

I remember how soft Miller Grove water was......it made horrible coffee and you just couldn't seem to get the shampoo out of your hair. You finally just put the conditioner on it and hoped that would cut the soap.

[millergrovesue]

I remember how soft Miller Grove water was......it made horrible coffee and you just couldn't seem to get the shampoo out of your hair. You finally just put the conditioner on it and hoped that would cut the soap.

Yes, it's undrinkable no matter what you put in it. Our under the sink reverse osmosis also provides water for the icemaker so everything we drink tastes great.

First time my BIL came to visit he told my sister that we needed to turn down the water softener. I told him we didn't have one. I could tell he didn't believe me. He was a water quality engineer at TCEQ but had never experienced water this soft.

I really love the soft water but learned, pretty quickly after we moved here, that I couldn't use powdered laundry or dishwasher soap because they wouldn't dissolve.

[Kiamichi]

From what I have seen just about all well water in plains country is mineral-laden and marginally potable.

[Red Oak]

I have drank from some wells on the Llano Estacado & Rolling Plains that had as good a water as any I have ever tasted, and a mile away wells that had water so bad that a coyote dying of thirst wouldn't touch.