- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Do you ever flush your borehole due to bacterial iron ?
Borehole cost
- Thread starter nick...
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- Location
- Northumberland
Nope, Got a UV filter to deal with any nasties. Havn`t actually heard of it
Google suggests it is usually an issue with surface water. Ours comes from 200 ft down.
Sometimes see field drains with an orange gunge coming out Get iit at the off farm but not here. Call it Ochre round here. Is that what you mean
- Location
- somerset
we are in a high iron area, apparently, they used to mine iron near us, even though its not a mining area! field drains usually have 'orange' outlets, we don't filter it out, nor have we had a problem, even on the old spring fed resovoir.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
Yes, orange slime that gums everything up
- Location
- South West
Does all water need to be treated if not for human consumption?
We're planning on putting a borehole in just for the cattle and horses, but leaving the houses on the mains.
Anyone any experience?
We're planning on putting a borehole in just for the cattle and horses, but leaving the houses on the mains.
Anyone any experience?
- Location
- South West
Does all water need to be treated if not for human consumption?
We're planning on putting a borehole in just for the cattle and horses, but leaving the houses on the mains.
Anyone any experience?
.
We're planning on putting a borehole in just for the cattle and horses, but leaving the houses on the mains.
Anyone any experience?
.
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- Location
- somerset
lived off our own supply for 60+ yrs, apart from a few funny twitches ............ Never been filtered, or 'added' to. Passes it's annual RT test absolutely fine, and doesn't taste of chlorine, like mains water. We do pass it through ultra violet for the dairy, as bactoscans were playing up, and told it was definitely the water, it wasn't, but we do keep the uv up to date.
- Location
- South West
Ta for the info, does the UV add much to the cost? Our water bill is circa 5k per annum so crunching numbers.
- Location
- somerset
crunching numbers ? Why, it will be the quickest pay back you can do. UV is very cheap, similar to a strip light. Ours, and some good friends, found it payed for itself quite easily, in year 1, that is dairy. Ours replaced a spring and reservoir, gravity flow, that was getting less reliable. A water diviner told us where to drill, and how deep, 35m, and initially pumped it up to the reservoir, on a time switch, since then, pressurised system, covering the whole farm.
Since doing it, l cannot understand why other farmers don't, it really is a no brainer, IF you have a suitable supply, ours is an underground river. The company that drilled it, wouldn't come, until the 'diviner' located a suitable supply, he was magic. Initial cost was £4,000 approx. Water bills for the 6ish months on mains, £6,000ish. Prices will have altered.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
after putting in our borehole, we had a full analysis done, which informs if it is safe to drink, which it passed, so no need for any filtering and happy days
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
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Depends how good your water diviner is.
We had one tell us where to drill. Went down 180ft and never found a thing.
- Location
- somerset
l thought it was all crap, till he came, even made hazel fork twist right round, and l was watching very closely. But to be fair, told us 2 depths we would find water at, first wouldn't be enough, and he was absolutely spot on. Started at the site of an old dry bore, me thinking just go deeper, nothing there, tried closer to farm, nope, so 300 m of elec heavy cable.
- Location
- Northumberland
Lot depends on your geology. When the Dales Water bloke came, he said anywhere in this parish we will drill 60 - 80 m & get a good supply. (He was right )
The unknown factor, As said above, after the bore is drilled a sample will tell you if you need addition filtration. A UV filter is probably a good idea to zap any pathagens regardless of the use being man or beast
The unknown factor, As said above, after the bore is drilled a sample will tell you if you need addition filtration. A UV filter is probably a good idea to zap any pathagens regardless of the use being man or beast
- Location
- Northumberland
Not sure how much a UV unit is, will depend on capacity. We change the tube in ours every 12 months , about £70
If your water bill is £5k you should be in profit in about 3 years.
So probably one of the best ROC you can make
Cost depends on depth, distance from your buildings, if the hole need a liner, size of pump & any filtration kit required
Mains water is a big plus for domestic use. We have the option of boreholes, but it's the uncertainty that persuaded us to ensure our mains supply.
Matt
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- Location
- herefordshire, uk
yep they can also talk horse dung too.
We have got a very bad experience of bore hole.
lost money on it, the company doing it lost more.
With the fitration it needed to get it ok for pigs to drink we were looking at north of £40,000 in addition to running costs of chlorine and filters.
didnt help the drilling company who provided the prognosis report, failed to declare all the truth from the database.
so just be carefull.
- Location
- South West
There is an old historic well on the farm so we know water is near
- Location
- somerset
if you knew how much water is 'recycled' you might not agree, depends where you are.
friend who used to work for thames water, retired, told us how they pumped dirty water, sewage, into gravel beds all winter, and extracted water all summer, it was filtered and 'treated' before it came out of the tap, recycled on average x7. Not over exciting.
Of course all mains isn't like that, just makes you think a bit, our house has only ever seen mains water, when the whole farm had to use mains, very rarely. We have to test the water for RT, and never had a problem, been told we have - bacto scan, not supported by testing, and found the problem elsewhere.
- Location
- Bude, Cornwall, UK
If you've got any surface water (springs streams etc.) no mater how far away take a look at Papa Pumps