Exactly. When I had an Aquarium, they recommended leaving the water to top off the tank uncovered for 24 hours to let the chlorine evaporate from the water.
Not sure where to begin. Mystery stream on my land (too much water ?!?)
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Usually 30 #'s sound like you need to get a pressure regulator, I would talk with whoever you get your water from. I know the city had to go around and install some here cause they tied some houses in to the main supply line feeding the towers and to close to the plant and was blowing the faucets off the sinks and busting the hotwater tanks.
Get a water pressure regulator. They are cheap and very effective. We use one in our RV every time we hook up to a new park.
It's adjustable to get the pressure you want. I think household pressure should be around 50 pounds. If it's not enough, the pressure can be adjusted to what you want.
I'm ready to be corrected, but the mandatory wetlands deal was during the obama administration.
If I remember right, it was struck down and later amended so that doesn't happen.
Here is the 2022 EPA wetlands regulations.
I didn't read it all for a disclaimer.
I had the same problem, and I think we live very close to each other. I ended up having to call a plumber out to install a water pressure regulator. They installed it on my side of the water meter, a few feet away, and that brought me down from 115 PSI to about 55 PSI.
BTW the City of OKC Water department will not install anything like a pressure regulator, I fussed and argued and cajooled them and got no result except for no result.
IIRC I used Hull plumbing, I think.
Looks like it was indeed the rural fire hydrant. Water co finally came out and dug it up. Still muddy at end of day, so much water to sink in and dry up. I half hoped there would still be a trickle of a free stream lol....
Heck, I thought you were going to keep your pond filled with artesian water. You could have stocked the pond and invited people to fish...
The rural water in my area are supposed to have a scheduled maintenance record of the time of month, or quartly to blow off the fire hydrants. Tells me they weren't keeping up with requirements or are short handed and couldn't get to fixing it. Some plants do a water loss evaluation and it would show up on the report. Some places just don't care or have the man power to keep on top of it.
I used to live on a dead end road and rural water had a blow off at the end of the line. At the time they told me I could go open that blow off and let it run for about half hour once or twice a month. Filled a swimming pool a cpl times then they put the kabosh on that because I didn't have a water license.
I used to live on a dead end road and rural water had a blow off at the end of the line. At the time they told me I could go open that blow off and let it run for about half hour once or twice a month. Filled a swimming pool a cpl times then they put the kabosh on that because I didn't have a water license.
Not that big, but absolutely what I woulda done if it wasn't wrecking other parts of my land.
