Rex's Water Well

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's bad flower with Paul's on Sea one on one

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rex in the morning. No, the lady in Flower Bluff
does not have to pay the five hundred dollars fine.
But couldn't the water police the water police did drive
around in my hood. Couldn't the water police have just
like knocked on the door and said, hey, this is
the wrong type of sign. You have to register with
the city and then avoid you know, a story or

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getting a black eye from all the comments on Facebook.
I'll give you the story. There's a Flower Bluff resident
they got a five hundred dollars watering citation despite having
her own water well. The city explaining why now, the
Bluff resident recently received that five hundred dollars citation for
watering her yard during Stage three drought restrictions despite having

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her own water well and a sign that says water
well in use. Apparently it's not the proper sign and
the well wasn't registered with the city. It was all
already registered with the state, like I don't know, over
twenty years ago. But the city says, no, that's not enough.
We want to know about your water well too. She's
lived in Flower Bluff for decades. It was confused by

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the citation since the well's been registered since two thousand
and two. Citation proposed a five hundred dollars fine or penalty.
So yeah, she didn't have to pay that. If you
read the entire story then you'll see, no, she didn't
have to pay. She went down to the city apparently
and filled out the correct form and now she has

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the correct sign to post it doesn't have to pay
the five hundred dollars fine. So there you go, Rex
in the morning on CE one oh one. I mean,
I'm just saying that it could have been a simpler way.
You know, if you see one of these knock on
the door and go, hey, notice that your water well's
not registered with the city. Can you register it? And
then if you don't, we'll give you a five hundred

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dollars fine. Instead, No, they just like hit her immediately
with the citation and turn the whole damn thing into
a news story. What does it cost to actually drill
my own water well? Maybe I'd like to do this,
I mean, that's one thing we have. I mean, you
can go in your backyard if you're in flour Bluff
and start digging, and even with a shovel, you'll walk

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away to get a drink of water, come back and
that hole will be full of water. That seems like
you just put in your own well, right, all right,
So the actual cost to drill or dig a well
is fifteen to twenty five dollars cost per foot that's
drilling only, then twenty five dollars to sixty one cost
per foot that's a complete install Somewhere around four thousand

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dollars to fifteen thousand dollars. That's the average total cost
to drill a well. Now, the average cost to put
in a new water well, like I said, up to
fifteen grand, depending on where you live, between thirty seven
hundred dollars and fifteen thousand. Now, while installing a well,
you then have to have a septic system and that

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can be somewhere between five fifteen twenty thousand dollars. Yeah,
So the well drilling cost is twenty five to sixty
five per foot for the complete installation, or fifteen to
twenty five bucks per foot just to drill. So if
you're thinking about doing this, you're looking at a total
cost that could be somewhere between five and fifteen to

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twenty thousand dollars for the entire setup. I am on
well water, that's what we have. And then you know,
of course we had to buy a really great water
softener because the water that comes out from the well,
if it's not filtered, talk about yellow sinks and toilets.
I'm like, whoped here, Now that's just that's just your water.

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So you have to have something to clean that water,
which means you also then have the expense of filters,
and filters can be expensive depending on you know what
type of device softener or filter system you go with.
Oh and then there's every other year you got to
have the septic guys out to do the gross process

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of vacuuming everything out of the buried poop blender. That's
part of your septic system. I'm like, I remember having
corn anyway, So they vacuum everything out and then they
powerwash it, get you right back up to new so

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you can go to your business. But you know, we
do that like every two years, have them come out
with the big stinky truck and the guys with the
worst job on earth that have to suck all that
stuff out of there and clean it. Whoo. Yeah, you
may not want to be home when they're doing that.
One one of the cool things about having water well

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is the fact that every time it rains, you get
really excited knowing that you're essentially filling up your water well. Uh.
The other thing, no water bill. Yeah, water is as
much as you want, as frequently as you want, and
with the proper filtration. I mean, I don't drink our
water because we have like you know, those big glug
glug bottled water things. But it's crystal clear and beautiful

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and you know, when I put it in a food dish,
it's just gorgeous water. Same thing with washing clothes with it,
you know, after you go through like a water softener
and a filtration system. But those can be costly. So
I mean there's you know, up and down. But I
do like the consistency of not having a water bill.