Finding Water - Dowsing

[Mortblanc]

It would be real handy if you had access to the knowledge of any old folks that lived nearby.

My neighbors have lived in their present abode for 50 years and know more about my place than I do. He even came over one morning right after I moved in and showed me where my septic field line ran due to being the one that dug the trenching.

I have lived in some old structures and if they are pre-electric and plumbing it is almost assured there will be a well within 50 feet of the door of what was once the kitchen! If the place is old enough for the cooking to have been done on the hearth the well is often in the front, between house and road.

I also lived in one cottage (wife said it was a cottage, I called it a shack) where the well was at the end of the front porch with a flagstone walkway from porch to well.