A Quick Up Date On Getting The Water Out Of Our Well ...
As you know from my previous post (Watering The Allotment From A Well) I’ve not the bravest person around the well at our allotment but this week I dared life and limb (or in fact convinced someone else to risk plunging down the well ...) to get you a picture ...
The water at the bottom is about 8 feet down from the top of the well ... just a few weeks it was only 4 feet from the top but the few drier weeks that we’ve had have meant not only have our water butts been emptied of water the well has also started to loose it’s water back into the ground ...
As you’ll see from the photo, the sides of the well are built from stone ... although the picture seems to imply it’s flat on one side that’s just ‘cause we left half the well covered when we took the picture. It’s actually a bottle shape, round at the top going straight down, but ‘belling’ out in the bottom.
