how do they get water and sewer up to remote homes that are high in the mountains?
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It’s not just high mountains, you know.
I live half a mile from a four-lane highway, seven miles from the town which serves as our county seat. A water line for the local water cooperative passes nearby, as does a high-pressure sewage line from the nearby elementary school. But I and all twenty or so of my neighbors use wells for our water and septic tanks for our waste.
There was talk at one time of tying us into the water line, but it would have cost each of us four or five thousand dollars. That idea went nowhere. As it is, our water tastes really good. No flouride or chlorine, just Nature.
My well is tucked behind my yard barn in the back yard. My water comes from right there in my yard, 80 to 100 feet down. My septic tank is buried in the front yard, with four “manholes” to access various parts of the tank and its associated pump. The leach field for my septic system is a ways off in the side yard.
I had to have the well’s pump replaced after 40 years of service, and once I had to have a pressure regualtor valve replaced. Other than that, I ignore it. I have the septic tank pumped out every three to five years. Every three months, I change a pipe connectionon the leach field to change the drainage pattern; the same day I clean the plastic filter that lies between the septic tank and its pump.
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