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To: SAMWolf

Sam, This is really off-topic but that 'egg water' taste happens when a well is tapped into a coal seam. The middle to southern part of Missouri on the Kansas border is strip mining country. The coal lies less than 50 or 80 feet under the surface. Back when wells were dug by hand they were rarely more than 40 feet deep and the spring water above the coal seam is sweet and clear. When they began to drill deep for water they would often punch through the seam and then the sulphur in the coal would taint the water with that nasty taste and smell. Even sleeving the hole didn't completely get rid of the taste. Chickens will drink it and don't seem to care but horses and most dogs shy away from it and it is bad for washing clothes in. It also makes a cows milk taste funky.. On my grandpa's farm we had three sweet wells and two springs that always ran clear.


72 posted on 08/16/2004 10:08:11 AM PDT by Lee Heggy (No good deed goes unpunished)
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Wow. Thanks for the sulpher lesson. Our city water back in Ohio always smelled of sulphur, it was drawn from a well before they ran it through the city system. They'd add bleach and then it would just smell like bleach. It was always awful.


83 posted on 08/16/2004 10:35:21 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Lee Heggy
This is really off-topic but that 'egg water' taste happens when a well is tapped into a coal seam.

Learned something new today then. :-) I just remember some of the farms we stayed at on vacations when I was a kid had that nasty tasting water.

98 posted on 08/16/2004 4:48:20 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Why don't tomb, comb, and bomb sound alike?)
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