Looking for Shawnee real estate (Grove, Bethel Acres: work, homes, commission)

[okie1954]

Hi all, I have decided to move back to Shawnee. But, I am looking for a home that has good well water. I am not interested in city property that has city water. I dont want to own a home that has yucky city water.

4 bed 2 1/2 bath 2 cgarage
a big workshop too. I am an artist and need a big room to spread out in. I have been using bedrooms for years and so very tired of the blocks it puts on my creativity.

I have heard Grove school district is a good area.

Send me a pm if you have or know of any property.

We currently are preparing to finish up staging our home in Texas.

The homes on our street have a record of selling in 20 to 55 days. So, hopefully it won't be long before we have a contract once we put it up for sell.

If this is an inappropriate post just delete it.

Thank you

[redbird4848]

Good well water is becoming harder and harder to find. At least in the rural area. I don't know about the city of Shawnee.

We have well water and all the drilling activity where they shoot it full of salt water has made our well water taste horrible.

There are quite a few real estate websites with plenty of listings in Shawnee, OK. Good luck on your move!

[peggydavis]

RB, you should at least complain to the corporation commission and make them come out and test your well. Maybe it won't do much good, but if enough of us complain it might make a difference.

I think around Shawnee they have good well water. I know in Newalla that is close to Shawnee the water is great.

[okie1954]

this is the condition I have for moving back. I will remember this practice of salt water. Why do they do this??

Originally Posted by peggydavis

RB, you should at least complain to the corporation commission and make them come out and test your well. Maybe it won't do much good, but if enough of us complain it might make a difference.

I think around Shawnee they have good well water. I know in Newalla that is close to Shawnee the water is great.

[peggydavis]

Originally Posted by okie1954

this is the condition I have for moving back. I will remember this practice of salt water. Why do they do this??

I am not an expert in the oil & gas industry, but when they drill these deep wells into the earth thousands of feet, salts and other deleterious materials are brought to the surface. Also, to the lubricants used on the drill bits, all kinds of harmful stuff is added to make the wells more effective to drill.

These materials have to be disposed of somehow, so they have these disposal wells: played out oil wells, or pits, or "commercial soil farms". They take these bad materials and put them in the old oil wells, pits, or other places. Or, at least that is the best information I have. These deleterious materials can then leak out into the groundwater, spoiling the well water for all the property owners around the disposal wells or other toxic waste disposal sites.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

I grew up 10 miles west of Shawnee in Bethel Acres. We had well water as did everyone else. It was very good quality.

I seriously doubt that the contents of salt water disposal wells will ever be able to leak into the ground water, any more than the oil & gas that was previously in the well before it played out leaked into the ground water. I worked in the oil field in that area back in the early & mid 1980s. Those oil wells are typically between 1,500 and 5,000 feet deep. The typical water well in the area is maybe 200 feet deep at the most. Salt water runs downhill just like fresh water does.

[redbird4848]

Originally Posted by Crosstimbers Okie

I grew up 10 miles west of Shawnee in Bethel Acres. We had well water as did everyone else. It was very good quality.

I seriously doubt that the contents of salt water disposal wells will ever be able to leak into the ground water, any more than the oil & gas that was previously in the well before it played out leaked into the ground water. I worked in the oil field in that area back in the early & mid 1980s. Those oil wells are typically between 1,500 and 5,000 feet deep. The typical water well in the area is maybe 200 feet deep at the most. Salt water runs downhill just like fresh water does.

I am not in the well business or nor an expert on subsurface drilling, but it doesn't take an expert to taste salt water coming from our well.

Our water heater has a sensor that has to be changed approximately every 9 months due to brine. Our neighbors directly east of us had to have their entire plumbing changed out due to brine damage after ONLY 2 years in their present location.

*"It has been estimated that over 30
million barrels (one barrel equals 42 U.S. gallons) of brine per day are injected into the subsurface. While
no systematic survey has been completed to determine the extent of shallow ground water pollution
resulting from these disposal practices, this salt water is recognized as perhaps the largest single potential
contaminant of potable subsurface waters."

*http://digital.library.okstate.edu/o...v66/p53_61.pdf

[peggydavis]

There are a lot of wells in this area that were drilled back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. These wells were not so deep. When these wells play out, they are used as disposal wells, and I totally disagree with that.

[Crosstimbers Okie]

I'm no expert either. But those wells are still much deeper than the water wells in the area. And, let's don't forget where the salt water came from in the first place. It came out of the very same holes that the oil & gas did. It gets separated from from the oil after being pumped out of the well, then it goes back in a non-producing well. Oil is nearly always found with salt water because Oklahoma was once covered by a shallow sea. The salt water was trapped in the rock formations along with the sea plants & animals which decayed and became petroleum.

[wintertime]

If you want better drinking water, get a AWG to take water from the air. I don't have one, but it costs about 9 cents a gallon for the electricity to make the water. The capacity is usually between 5-10 gallons a day, but you don't transport water. If you do a search you can see the different companies that sell them. They use UV lights and charcoal filters on the water

I think the holding capacity is only 5 gallons on most, but it should be enough for one family.