Little heart well pipe.

[Sum1]

So there is an old well pipe sticking out of the ground in the little heart bottoms south of Mandan that has had water running out of it for as long as I can remembers. And I remember a guy I worked with about twenty years ago said he would drink out of it. I’m curious if anyone knows if that’s safe drinking water?

 

[1lessdog]

My guess is a Artesian well. I know where there are 5 of them. They flow year round. One of them are horses drank out of them like a water fountain at a school.

 

[Sum1]

Can humans drink out of it

 

[Sum1]

Serious question

 

[KDM]

Lots of cattle drink artesian well water. Deer drink artesian well water. Birds, etc. etc. etc. Never seen piles of dead cows, deer, or any other critter around an artesian well, nor have I heard of such a thing. People then eat said cows, deer, birds, etc. and I've heard nothing about negative affects. With that, I'd not go without my morning coffee because the water came from an artesian well. But what do I know?

 

[NDbowman]

I'd drink it. Probably cleaner and safer than treated city water with all the chlorine and crap in it. There are two wells like that a few miles north or me that run all year long, no one uses them anymore.
Dad had an abandoned farmstead on some of his land that the well would trickle over when not in use. There was a concrete pad that at one time had a cattle water fountain on it but had been removed. The water would flow out of the black plastic water line coming up out of the riser in that concrete pad. Deer and coyotes would use it in the winter. I always wanted to put a camera up by it and see what all used it. But a house got moved into that yard for my sister and in the process of landscaping and cleaning up the old yard, that water fountain pad got covered up with dirt. Old well got capped and a new well drilled.
We've got numerous shallow pasture wells for cattle, under 20ft deep. I drink water from them all the time in the summer, that water tastes better than about anything I've drank.

 

[Sum1]

hmmm. Maybe I’ll give a few swigs next time I’m down there

 

[wslayer]

The one at Crystal Springs use to run all the time too. We use to stop and fill water containers out of that many yrs ago. Very tasty water.

 

[1lessdog]

The one at Crystal Springs use to run all the time too. We use to stop and fill water containers out of that many yrs ago. Very tasty water.

There is a lot of difference between fresh spring water flowing out of the ground and artesian water. Artesian is very hard water. I remember kids back in the 60's having a rust deposit on there teeth growing up.