What Do You Think?

What is it? A well that can double as a water hydrent/

Reasoning: I am from a rural area (big shocker in Iowa huh?) and well my fire district and that around it is made up of mostly farmsteads and isolated homes. This means to get water to the area now we have to have high capacity engines, and at least one tanker. Now now having two engines and an areial drawing out of a "pool" it can use water really fast. But here is my idea,a well could double as a low GPM hydrent? I know this wouldn't get rid of the having to run a tanker, but at least we would have more time in-between runs.

What do you think?

i think that i am really confused by all of that

that could work. But, wouldn't that require something sticking out of your yard?

you would draw all the water out of that almost as quick as you draw out a pool

@Matthews, People here in Iowa have wells drilled in the ground to an aquafer where we get our water to drink, wash, etc. So we have water that we could tap into instead of reling on a tanker.

@Botfish, we already have things sticking out of out yards in Iowa.

@Cressler, With an aquafer you can have tens of thousands of gallons stored underground.

Then I guess that would work. In Michigan we don't have things sticking out of our yards

Do you live in the country? Even then maybe you have rural water.

I live in the counrty and we do have a well in our back yard

I live in a neighborhood and we don't have a well in our yard, but I think that's a great idea! You can have those set up good distances apart and they can act as fire hydrant's in betweem the tanker's runs so there's no water loss. When it runs out, drill a new one!

yes but is destroying an entire counties aquifer worth one house when they make there living on farming?

if you are implying irragation, around the counties where I live there is one rusted out pivot sprinkler. irrigation is virtualy non exsistant here. As for teh aquaifer, they do re-fill with seepage of rain water, granted it would take years. You also have to acount for the fact that in-town hydrents are sometimes part of a well. In Manchester 3 of our 4 watertowers draw from a well. Where do you think rural water systems come from?

That's a good idea, but the thing is, as it's been pointed out, it'd use a lot of water fast. And I can almost promise you that they will use that hydrant as a first go and the tanker pool when they need ot, but they will run the hydrant like it's never ending. Now if they can come up with a way so that the hydrant/well can be refilled faster than what it is, then that'll work well (excuse the pun) Like say it was a barn or garage fire (my uncle had a garage, burnt down, was on private well, so they needed to run a hose half a kilometer to get water, since we're a city and don't have tankers) and they had this, obviously the well might go to dangerously low levels, but say there was a way to put clean water back into it after the fact of the fire, since people may very well still live there.

Then you could have fire protection, and when you use the well up after a fire, someone from the city comes along, checks the water levels, and has a couple tanker trucks load some more CLEAN water into it. After all, it won't be always neccessary, but even just to have them able to change to a fire hydrant would work well, so if they start to run low and need that extra bit, then it'd hold off until the next tanker, and the water is replaced as well then, without the city paying too much to install hydrants everywhere. And then they just put back the water they took, since it was only borrowed..

That make any sense?