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My wife and I bought our house a few years ago and its an old house w/septic and well. We decided its time to upgrade to city water for many reasons. So I call the city and they quote me $1800 to run a pipe to our property line and cap it. I talked to a plummer who was doin the same for a lady up the road and he said $1600 for him to run it the rest of the way. Wow. There goes the tax return.

Any particular reason for going onto city water? It might be cheaper to upgrade/replace the well or install treatment systems to make the water nicer. I grew up on well water, never had any health probs (teeth especially) until I moved into town and started drinking city tap water.

I moved into my house about 3 years ago on city water, from a house of 7 years on well water. I still don't like the taste of my water I have now.

Mainly water pressure. Weve done everthing that people have told us to get more pressure out of the pump/pot & still its weak. Weve had the water tested and it was fine, just alot of sediments is all. Around here they ad things to the city water as far as vitamins and minerals. Sounds wierd but they do.

man thats alot of cash!
Good luck whith that...

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that dosnt sound wierd at all. In Spokane they just started putting floride in the water. Alot of towns will do that.

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Man i can relate. Up here in the prairies, snow/rain can be patchy. As of now we are going through a 4 year drought (so far, i hope its over). And yeah it sucks. We got 7000 acres of land that is parched dryer then a popcorn fart. We need rain. But anyways on to what i was originally gonna say. Theres talk of putting a HUGE pipeline from the South Saskatchewan River (about 30 miles south of my farm). This would then be branched off from by smaller pipelines, and then a line to each farm. Theres probably 200 farms want this pipeline, and that equals A LOT of water. As with all things, there a price to pay for this water...each farm has to shell out about $20000 (canadain) in order to get their own line. This pipeline would solve a lot of the on farm water problems. IF you drill a well here you have a 50/50 chance if hitting decent water. The well on my farm is about 500 feet deep, and the water is shit. Our neighbors, about a mile and a half down the road have the same depth well and they have good water. But if each farm had their own pipeline of river water to the farm, there wouldn't be all this mess and fuss. So it comes down to a decision...do you want to pay that much for clean, always on tap water, or would you rather have crap water, and haul drinking water...??? I know im willing to pay it. Theres a lot of people who take for granted their clean/good water....i wish i was one of them...

for the most part, i have always found city water to taste like shit. i wont drink it. other than that, im fine with it. hell, i dont drink any water anyway. but well water taste so much better thancity water. you shoudl try replacing your water filters like twice a month, we haev lots of sediments in our water, and we lose water pressure all the time, then we swap in a new filter, and its back to nomal.

Sediments might be a contributor to the low pressure, but I can see where you are coming from on the pump vs city side of things. At least then you know you are getting good pressure to the house, and if you aren't there is someone you can complain to that has to pay to fix it. Before you make the big money decision you might check some internal pipes (especially if they're old or old house) and make sure they aren't choked up. Would suck to pay for all that city water work only to find the house plumbing is choked down to nothing and causing problems. If you can find a spot along a fairly main line that is easy to open up (and close again) it might not take a big effort/expense.

I'm not a big fan of the added vitamins/flouride stuff in water. I've seen some recent studies that show flouride in water can cause brittleness of teeth in adults. I've got a cracked incisor that would seem to agree.

I don't agree with flouridation at all. There is alot of information out there on the subject. the rate for dental flourosis is considerably higher in areas that add flouride to the water supply. Some countries have actually banned the practice. A few years ago I read where the Canadian head of dentistry ( I can't remember his title) said it was one of the worst mistakes they had made.
You have to remember, the flouride that is added to water at treatment facilities isn't a naturally occuring flouride ion, instead it comes from fume scrubbers from fertilizer production facilities. ewww

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