Million dollar homes with million dollar views.
Too bad.?ÿ That'd be a million dollar view regardless of what the homes were like, or even there.
And million dollar utility bills.
Being close to the top of a mountain I??m wondering how hard it was finding water. Lot of bedrock. My old geology professor told us two places to not build a house, top of a mountain or at the bottom by a stream.?ÿ
Surface runoff gathering system of some sort, involving pumping and purifying or have it hauled in.?ÿ The same applies to how to reasonably dispose of sewage other than trucking back out.
Worked a survey job next to a lake where they had two 1000-gallon tanks buried in the back yard.?ÿ One was for the delivery by truck of fresh water and the other for removal by truck of the waste.?ÿ When the first tank was nearly empty it was time to call to get the waste hauled first, then take delivery of potable water.?ÿ Otherwise, the waste could back up if you started using the new supply and forgot to call for removal services.
@holy-cow What a PIA. These people are on wells, just how deep they had to go I wanted to ask. Years ago a contractor built a massive house at the toe of mountain on spec without first drilling a well. Being on bedrock, spent a fortune drilling several 400?? wells, all dry. Couldn??t give the home away.
@dougie Water mains here have to be buried minimum 8', given all the bedrock and 1000'+ elevation gain, not happening.
One could do what one did in rocky ground in NZ - build the pipeline aboveground, then retrospectively bury it when one realises it doesn't look that flash.
I??m sort of glad I didn??t bring the subject up with a couple of the home owners I met. Engineer today who lives nearby was telling me one of them lost their son who was trying to frack their well with explosives to get some water flowing. I think my old professor was right, a view to die for.
What a hassle, if it's a big house over this side of the world we just catch the rainwater off the roof and store it in a tank then treat and filter it before drinking it.
@lukenz That only works when the rainwater remains in a liquid state. In williwaw's area, the rainwater is a crystalline solid for much of the year.
it's dry there, they can use the water I bet
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@peter-lothian Half the year at least, and doesn??t rain that much around there May through August, the warmest months. It??s quite dry here but evaporation rates are low. I hauled water for seven years to my property before being able to afford drilling a well. Made me appreciate water maybe more than most who just think it comes magically from a tap.
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It is fairly common for people in Oklahoma to have, or have access to, a trailer with a large water tank.?ÿ When your well goes dry you get the tank filled with municipal water in town, and run with that until your well recovers. Sometimes that goes on for a long time.?ÿ?ÿ
@richard-imrie Is it that dry due to a rain shadow with the mountains blocking rain clouds? Not the green lush NZ that pops to mind. Hawaii is like that, one side gets inundated and the opposite side desert.
Yes, it's the South Island of NZ, which has a mountain range running north south, and with the prevailing weather from the west, the west gets rain, while the east can get very dry. This particular pipeline is for irrigation water for farms in the dry areas.
