What have done towards your prep?

[BeardyMan]

(13 October 2015, 19:53)Straight Shooter Wrote: Its a bit unusual BM....i am digging INTO the bank....sort of coming in from the side.....reason being ......there is another well about 40 ft away at a higher level ..that is covered....i could open it easy but ...off this well is a sump and take off pipe....this pipe is fractured and water pisses out onto the lower drive....so i decided to reroute this damaged pipe ...so i just as well form a new well....so i have found the take off pipe and break i will break into that pipe and redirect the water into a plastic HD drum 45 gal job then redirect the take off pipe....to run a alternator for battery charging ....then send the take off down the bank into a lower stream ....easy job really ....i will either brick up off a concrete found i will form around the bottom of the drum or stonework...then fit a hand cranked syphon pump.

Gold star for for sir! That's superb. No chance of anything so cool in the fens, it's all flat you see. So water and hydro power! Sweet. You're lucky enough to be able to drink that without treating too? Not sure if would be wise to do that here, all those vile chemicals leeching into the groundwater. Surrounded by farms.