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This is the story...
While at my annual birthday gift, a week with my grandchildren at the Cottage, the water pump in the lake stopped working early in the week. We had no water! Well actually I have a bunch of jerry cans of fresh water for just an occurrence, but it wasn't going to last an entire week.
I yanked the pump out of the lake, it looked fine. When turned on it tried for a second to pump then stopped. I called up my supplier - out of Toronto - and he suggested I try replacing the controller which is up in the Cottage. I order one through a small pump repair shop in Shawville and got it the next day (late). Sure enough I installed it an the pump works fine.
But me in my drive for perfecction decided that it was time for a well. Rationalizing that it was in the lake and could go at anytime, the water in the lake needed the UV filter treatment, and what would I do if the pump failed when I had a renter... or if we had a really cold winter and the lake froze the top of the pipe leading to the pump in the lake...
So I embarked on getting a new pump. The go to supplier gve me a quote and said the first 100 feet would be roughly $600. So I said lets do it... He told me but it didn't register that if the well was deeper there was an additional per foot charge...So as it turned out the well ended up being 88 feet deeper to the tune of over $12,000.
In hindsight, if I new what the bill would be, I would have waited as $12,000 was hard on the bank account. But it is done and I rationalize further thinking I now have a backup system (in the lake) in case the well system fails, plus the clarity of the water is much better.
I did replace and still use the UV filter, but I understand I don't need it. Just habit and comfort I guess.
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