04/06/2021
Good morning, all! It is glorious to wake up with water again here at the ranch. With the new pump, our water pressure is insanely better, as well. Thank you to the good people at Tanner Well Service in Hereford/Sierra Vista, AZ for the quick work yesterday!
Looking back at the old records, if things are accurate, we "only" lost three feet of water from the time the well was first drilled in the 1970s. (The well guys yesterday said it should have been dug deeper than that back then to begin with...) If Monsoon is good this year, we should be okay, but we do need to start planning to drill a deeper well (a neighbor just went down to 1,000 ft...) in the future. We also already have three rain tanks (I believe two are at least 3,000 gallons if not larger), but hope to be placing more around the property going forward. This, along with identifying the areas of flooding and natural ponding that occur during Monsoon and encouraging better drainage, storage, and flow where needed.
