Friday 21 September 2012

Well cleaning

When we first discovered the well, a few years back, it was so infested with blankets of slime and nastiness, we poked it with a stick, decided it wasn't very deep (or exciting), made a secure cover, and then more or less forgot about it.  This summer there's been a water crisis in the village, so we decided to open it up and investigate what sort of well we have...
For the last 3 months we've been pumping out the water, removing buckets of slime/rubbish/plastic/glass/rubble/wire/mud, then letting it fill up again - and at 5 metres down we still haven't reached the bottom.  Soon our ladder will not be long enough, so we'll have to dangle off it to mine the slime pit..

As and when we do reach the bottom, the next question will be how we set up a management/pumping method to make best use of it.