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[Sourdough]

RIDE'EM COWBOY........Hold on tight.

 

[d_marsh]

That looks like fun. Crap your pants fun.

 

[Sourdough]

I have a 30' high water falls on my property, flows year around. Where I washed my clothing and hauled water for cabin life. It is a different "CREEK" then the one posted above. The photo above is NOT a RIVER..........That is an Alaskan CREEK.

I remember many decades ago my mother moved from Gasport, New York to Georgia. I went to see her and she picked me up at Atlanta Airport, and as we drove to North Georgia, we kept crossing what in Georgia they call a River. I'll bet we crossed several hundred of them. They all had huge Highway Signs, naming the River. Some were five feet wide, but most were two feet wide. I doubt any were eight feet wide, and NONE were creeks......They were all rivers by Georgia standards.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Years ago I used to do a lot of white water rafting. Most trips were 3 or 4 days long, with a lot of class IV and V rapids. I had a 14' raft and could carry 2 to 4 passengers, depending on how cute they were. Also had a 16' guide model aluminum drift boat for salmon and steelhead fishing. Those were the days. When I get time I'm going to build a wooden drift boat.

 

[Mountain trapper]

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[Hardcalibres]

Water security is the top priority/parameter, when selecting rural or remote land to buy or otherwise occupy.

As the OP has posted several times before, you need several redundant, independent water sources, because what many consider to be reliable, often proves to be unreliable.

The more separate sources of water you have, the less chance there is that all those sources will fail you at the same time.

Many people misunderstand ground water.

Aquifers are not limitless.....they are very finite.

Wells are not permanent.....they are temporary.

As you draw water from an aquifer, in most cases you will progress through different stratified layers of ground water.....with different water quality.

Climates and seasons vary......independent of human activity.

 

[sonya123]

Water security is the top priority/parameter, when selecting rural or remote land to buy or otherwise occupy.

worst case scenario for us is the large creek at the bottom of our mountain, maybe 1\4 mile. That never dries up, or at least not since we have been here
Water needs to be everyone's priority for survival. It does you no good to have 2 years of food stored, when you have no water and die in a few days

 

[sonya123]

Years ago I used to do a lot of white water rafting. Most trips were 3 or 4 days long, with a lot of class IV and V rapids. I had a 14' raft and could carry 2 to 4 passengers, depending on how cute they were. Also had a 16' guide model aluminum drift boat for salmon and steelhead fishing. Those were the days. When I get time I'm going to build a wooden drift boat.

That's fun, but we usually went with a guided tour. We did a few out west that were really great, one started near Jackson Hole WY and went all the way to Idaho, one went down the Rio Grande in NM. We did one in NC that I almost got hypothermia from, I have never been so cold in my life!! Nantahala, if you ever go there, wear a wetsuit

 

[Hardcalibres]

worst case scenario for us is the large creek at the bottom of our mountain, maybe 1\4 mile. That never dries up, or at least not since we have been here
Water needs to be everyone's priority for survival. It does you no good to have 2 years of food stored, when you have no water and die in a few days

Setup the system as to how you will access that water now.

Water's arch enemy and best friend is gravity.

 

[Mountain trapper]

That's fun, but we usually went with a guided tour. We did a few out west that were really great, one started near Jackson Hole WY and went all the way to Idaho, one went down the Rio Grande in NM. We did one in NC that I almost got hypothermia from, I have never been so cold in my life!! Nantahala, if you ever go there, wear a wetsuit

I used to do commerical guided raft and fishing trips too. A buddy of mine owned a guide service. At that time I worked as a welder with a 4 10 hour a day schedule and I lived only a few minutes away from some class V rapids. For much of the summer I could be found on the river. I ran rivers in Oregon and northern California mostly.

 

[Sourdough]

Same creek as first post, just a few miles up the creek. This creek is at the bottom of my mountain. I have two drilled water wells roughly 70 feet deep. The static water level is 55 feet. So, about 15 feet from the top of the pipe. I put the "Pitless" down 13 from the top of the casing (6" Drill Casing) So, there is no way the line could ever freeze. Plus the creek with the 30 foot waterfalls. Plus seven undeveloped springs on the property. Here if it is a hillside and you find "Devils Club" plant, there is a spring nourishing those plants.

 

[Neb]

Same creek as first post, just a few miles up the creek. This creek is at the bottom of my mountain. I have two drilled water wells roughly 70 feet deep. The static water level is 55 feet. Plus the creek with the 30 foot waterfalls. Plus seven springs on the property.

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Our waterfalls are 3 to 7 foot but ditto that.

But groundwater is low on my lists. Developed spring rule!

Ben

 

[elkhound]

Water security is the top priority/parameter, when selecting rural or remote land to buy or otherwise occupy.

As the OP has posted several times before, you need several redundant, independent water sources, because what many consider to be reliable, often proves to be unreliable.

The more separate sources of water you have, the less chance there is that all those sources will fail you at the same time.

Many people misunderstand ground water.

Aquifers are not limitless.....they are very finite.

Wells are not permanent.....they are temporary.

As you draw water from an aquifer, in most cases you will progress through different stratified layers of ground water.....with different water quality.

Climates and seasons vary......independent of human activity.

they can be recharged with proper check dams....the Bedouin tribes have been building check dams the last while from just simple rock piles to more elaborate ones and it has charged wells from miles away that been dry for decades.

i have a dam and it puts water in the ground all the time...you go look at creek and see dry spots where it all goes into the creek bed and then pops back up farther down...that water is constantly going below creek bed to per a geologist i had out for a visit to talk about some things.

 

[sonya123]

Setup the system as to how you will access that water now.

Water's arch enemy and best friend is gravity.

You must have not read about our water delivery problems in my water thread
The system is set up, but it needs pipes replaced