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Old 10-22-2009, 11:08 PM   #10
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Default Drinking water.

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Originally Posted by Airwaves View Post
As a family that has been on the lake for more than 100 years I can tell you that we used to put our water pipe out from the cottage each spring and it would be 10 feet below the water surface.

That depth provided water for drinking that was acceptable!

Clarity? Chlorine helps but kills fish.
The family drank the lake water from 1898 up til about the mid 80's when Samoset Condominium was put in. We notice the turbidity of the water turn worse. We decided to put in an artesian well.
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