Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Jim The water from our well on the farm has so much iron that everything turns brown. We're going to have to install a filter before I can wash clothes with the well water. We shouldn't have any problem with anemia, though! Tina On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote: > Tina, > > You are only half-way back in the 20th century. When I was a kid, living > in an old farm house, there was no electricity or indoor plumbing. The > pumped well in the yard produced water fit for washing clothes, but the > drinking and cooking water was carried from an artesian well across the > road. That well had so much iron content that all of the water buckets had > a brown stain on the inside. > > The "outhouse" was about 200 ft from the house, out beyond the chicken > yard. > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com