Frozen water main - suggestions?

seanrunnette said:
We're going the other way! As of tomorrow, we turn our back on the 50' trench and all the exploratory digging on top of the rock shelf, and head toward Lake Road, where there's some faint hope that we can avoid any more rock shelves, and get a curb service installed for the quite reasonable sum of 1600 bucks-ish, plus whatever it costs to burn through 4 days of x2 dozers. Mind you, we may have to wait til April for the curb service. In which case, we put in a temporary copper line back to the original meter pit on Summit Rd., wrap that in heat tape and pray we don't get too many more cold days. No hardship variance, no luck.
OTOH, we now have a 4' trench running almost the width of the property. In case of Germans.
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The Maginot Line runs through Morris County.
 
Mitch said:
You really are making a big deal about running water. What did people do before this?
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I was going to post "What about drilling a well ?"

Nothing wrong with well water, and not full of the crap the municipal water supply has.
 
Dingo said:
I was going to post "What about drilling a well ?"

Nothing wrong with well water, and not full of the crap the municipal water supply has.
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Morris MUA is well water. There is basically nothing in the water other than water. If you're super close to the distribution point you can find traces of Chlorine, less so if you are further away. But it keeps your camelbak clean. The wells I worked at were pretty much just wells with chlorine injection. There could be others that require more, but probably not. Not much happens to municipal well water in North Jersey. There's at least one well I know of that's near enough to a former WW2 runway that they have to blow air across the water to remove volatiles from the water. But that's in Essex County.
 
This thread is meeting all my expectations, so glad I tuned in. Sean, your troubles are keeping us thoroughly entertained, if that matters....
 
Please tell me you really have well water and it’s just a fuse/breaker going to the pump. 😛


Pipe being a failed attempt to use city water eons ago.... I know it’s impossible.... but a guys gotta dream don’t he?🙄
 
Hackettstown MUA says they get their water from a reservoir on top of Stephen's state park. Only problem is their is no visible reservoir. It's and underground reservoir called a well.
 
gtluke said:
Morris MUA is well water. There is basically nothing in the water other than water. If you're super close to the distribution point you can find traces of Chlorine, less so if you are further away. But it keeps your camelbak clean. The wells I worked at were pretty much just wells with chlorine injection. There could be others that require more, but probably not. Not much happens to municipal well water in North Jersey. There's at least one well I know of that's near enough to a former WW2 runway that they have to blow air across the water to remove volatiles from the water. But that's in Essex County.
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Are they still adding flouride to the municiple water supply?
 
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The Kalmyk said:
Damn this is a tough go. Hopefully this is will be fixed very soon. When I lost my home in Sandy I kept this as my wallpaper to keep perspective and my reality in check...

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Perspective is a helluva thing.
Didn't realized you'd lost your home. I almost wrote house, but that's not what it was. A house is the thing you buy, a home is what it turns into.
Thanks for posting this. It's hard to look at, but that's the point, right?
 
seanrunnette said:
Perspective is a helluva thing.
Didn't realized you'd lost your home. I almost wrote house, but that's not what it was. A house is the thing you buy, a home is what it turns into.
Thanks for posting this. It's hard to look at, but that's the point, right?
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Spencer's lost home is the reason I have pet Tuna
 
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