…at your backup location.
One of the attractions of our retreat in the hills was water availability. (Jim Rawles clued me in to that a decade ago. Embarrassed to say I hadn’t thought of it before then.)
Water pump on a deep well, check. (Filter’s important, though — it’s a shit-brown tub for you otherwise; believe me, I know).
Year-round fork of the Molelumne at our doorstep, running year-round, double check.
Disconnected-but-easily-restored auxiliary pump system pulling from the river, highly illegal triple check.
That last doesn’t exactly work when the river’s at historic lows, though, as I found out this afternoon.
Ah well, we’re prepared for that too.
It’s good to have a back-up plan!
Merle
We don’t have backup water. Maybe I can drill a well at the ranch, the water table is pretty high – but the Low Granite Outcropping is on granite…
Do have a boat on site? The Super El Nino prediction is verifying every day…
@NotClauswitz — time to start pricing cisterns!
Joel Skousen’s book (I think it was called The Secure Home — too busy to look it up right now) had plans for a 20’x4’or so aboveground cement-block wall on the streetside of the house that doubled as a roof-runoff cistern. You could do the same in a more rural setting and call it a trout or catfish pond (you’d need a filter of course).
@RD — yes, there’s a cute skiff, but the water would have to rise thirty feet to begin to be a threat to the buildings.
Our company drills horizontal wells for remediation and water supply – what you want is a well that extends under the river, in the saturated zone of sand and gravel, with the wellhead outside the river course. Pretty much invisible.
We have water barrels that collect from the gutters, a couple 45’s and a 90 gal. But that requires rain. 🙂 Also the pine-pollen promotes weird algae growth and even using an algicide the water would need a coffee filter and then something else to make it potable – so we just use it on the plants that are dying…