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13 Nov ’14
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Does anyone here have any idea as to how much water you use on yourself, your home and property annually? Here in CO there are a lot of limitations on water use. I am slightly concerned with my new parcel that only allows me .5foot/acre of water from my well annually. I believe that equates to about 163k gallons. For a place that doesn get much rain that seems like it may impact my ability to use my land to its maximum. even for domestic use only.
The most I have ever used at my current home is 10k gallons in a month. To water 2000 sq feet of lawn, 300 sq feet food gardens and 200 sq feet flower garden and household use....
15 Feb ’12
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How did they monitor the usage if it's a private well?
Interesting question I never really thought of, I will have to look at my records.
Any ability to put a pond in for animals, gardens, etc?
13 Nov ’14
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Thats part of the weird laws around here. You dont own the water on your property. So I cant just dig a pond and let it fill. I would need to buy water rights from someone in the aquifer. Although I would consider building a lined pond and pumping it full for me to draw from. Or buying a 10,000 gallon tank or something to irrigate an orchard/garden with. Some areas you also are not allowed to collect rain water. I am not sure of the rules outside city limit vs in.
15 Feb ’12
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Do you guys have companies in the area that haul water? when we built our pond we had two tanker trucks come in and fill it, cost only a couple hundred dollars
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