Posted by Wesley Stephens on January 07, 2013 at 15:28:13 from (70.193.14.112):
In Reply to: OT-Milk Wells posted by GarryinNC on January 07, 2013 at 14:38:45:
There used to be a little "dairy" building here that was at the bottom of a ravine where there is a spring for keeping milk cool. My grandfather said electricity came here in the mid 40's. They already had indoor plumbing, though because they had a ram working from one of the many springs around. The water table is high in this area, even right along the 40' drop off to the Cape Fear River floodplain. We are about 40 miles up from Wilmington and maybe 60 from the mouth of the river at Southport. Our houses and barns are along the edge of the hill and there are springs everywhere when you get close to the bottom of the hill. We can still put down a 20' well and get plenty of water, but everyone uses deep wells now. We have a 4" that we used for our former nursery that's about 240' and mine is 176'. Lots of limestone bedrock, so lots of mineral taste in the water.
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