RE: [at-l] AT-L CREW

["Walt Daniels" <wdaniels@bestweb.net>]

The two we drilled were in Dutchess County NY, Morgan Stewart and Wiley.
Both have old woods roads that allowed a normal drill rig to get there
 with a little chainsawing to reopen them). I have heard of portable rigs
but they probably can't drill real deep. I don't know how they drilled the
one at Wildcat Shelter north of Rt 17A in Orange County NY. I think it is a
very shallow well. They certainly did not get a truck in there. It may have
been hand dug. That is certainly an option if the water table is high
enough. It is hard to keep polution out though. That was the problem with
the former well at Morgan Stewart.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kahley7 [mailto:kahley7@ptd.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 10:35 PM
> To: Walt Daniels; at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: RE: [at-l] AT-L CREW
>
>
> At 06:26 PM 9/1/99 -0400, Walt Daniels wrote:
> Walt, how in the heck did you get the rig onto the ridge?
> Are their portable rigs?
>
>
> >We have also drilled two wells. The quote was about $2500 each
> but we wound
> >up paying more like $3500 because the Davis/Bacon Act requires
> that Federal
> >projects pay the going rate for which there are tables. I am
> sure the costs
> >are a strong function of well depth. Ours were about 100 ft.  ATC funded
> >these wells. Wells are a pain for volunteers because of the
> required testing
> >but some places there is no choice for water supplies.
> >
> >Privies are relatively cheap. Recently priced at Home Depot, $375
> >(everything but the toilet paper). Of course you can spend MUCH
> more if you
> >go the Clivus Multrum route or other high tech varients. All the
> high tech
> >ones need almost weekly visits by a volunteer.
> >
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