Water Meters on Wells: Pennsylvanians only

Alan L. · Jul 27, 2002

The man who comes to install the meter on MY water well will be sorely disappointed.

Wingnut · Jul 27, 2002

justifying their existance is pretty much all any giovernment departments do .... which is why we get so many stupid laws.

JoeR · Jul 27, 2002

If they tax your personal well, then are they going to maintain it too? Pay for the electricity when the pump runs? I understand monitoring large wells, but small wells should be left alone. What happens if your well collapses? Are they going to pay for a new one so they can ensure their revenue? The government wants all of the money and none of the responsibility!

Joe R.

Wingnut · Jul 27, 2002

<font color=blue>Taxing my well? On my property?????</font color=blue>

hmmm ... wonder if that would make them liable to help pay for drilling it?

JoeR · Jul 27, 2002

Wingnut,

You and I must have been thinking the same exact idea about the government being responsible... Your post was within 2 or 3 minutes of my post...

Egon · Jul 27, 2002

Cheer up fellows.
Fresh water is our most precious resource.
More control will be coming if you like it or not!
There are some aquifiers that have been drawn down to the point that recharging may almost be impossible at the present rate of withdrawall.

Egon

dgood1 · Jul 28, 2002

Egon,

Sounds like we need population control. Hmmm, they already have that in China. I firmly believe that less is better when it comes to government.

Don

Egon · Jul 28, 2002

Don:

""less is better when it comes to government.""

Definetly concur with that statment but the realities of attaining are probably beyond our grasp at this point in the exponential growth and feeding of those who feed on the system. Only in the later stages when there are not enough contributors will it start fall apart. Or, As the French did a long time back, imediate action could be taken but this is not a viable option to me.

Initially Government and all it entails ensure there is stability in which a society can grow and prosper. As in all societies of the past this will go through a cycle to where government is an impedment to well being of the general population and then it's back to square one.
Egon

Darren · Jul 28, 2002

There's some sort of authority that has jurisdiction in the Susquehanna River watershed in PA. There was an article in Lancaster Farming a couple of months ago that dealt with this. I think they were just looking at large users maybe over 10,000 gpd. The rational was that in times of drought, the large users would have to either curtail their usage, pay a fee on what they used or switch to an alternative source.

I think that was the source of the rumor. There was no mention of small household wells.