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I was reading in the Rapid City Journal regarding treatment of wells in Piedmont area due to heavy rains. Is this an unusual circumstance where people must treat their water after a lot of rain? Is the entire Rapid City area on a municipal water system?
This was a VERY unusual phenomenon that I have never heard of occuring around here before. Piedmont, Summerset, and all of the other towns NW of Rapid City were literally slammed with flood water and massive hailstones. As you know, this caused the septic systems and wells to backflow and it contaminated the water. People have been instructed to treat their wells with chlorine and inspect them regularly.
As for Rapid City, we are on a municipal water system and have not been affected by the flooding. It is only in wells near Piedmont and Summerset. The storm that hit out there was so bad that cars were left abandoned on I-90 and windshields were busted out by hail!!!
Piedmont does not have a municiple water system for most of their residents as they are a rural area When things like this happen (which is very rare) it does not effect municiple water what so ever - we live in the area and the hail and flooding was terrible - still working to get our roof repaired! Rapid and Black Hawk / Summerset have city water so our water was fine eventhough we got the bad storm...
Danny~Ok I'm behind on this~did this all happen today?
No, this happened earlier this summer. But since then, wells in Meade County have been coming up contaminated with bacteria and fecal matter. It has not affected Rapid City whatsoever though. Only Piedmont, Summerset, and a few other areas northwest of Rapid City.
It was a HUGE STORM! For example, someone hit my car in September and I cannot get into the body shop until November because they are so backed-up with hail damage from this one storm!!! That's how bad this was!!! Many homes in the area have to get new shingles too. At least someone's making money!
OMG, that sounds awful. I do remember you guys getting huge hail and a big storm a while ago, but didn't realize it was that awful. It's funny how the newspapers and tv can report things that are happening all around the world, but do you think they'll tell you what's happening on the other side of your own state?
I read today that all of the wells that were contaminated were shallow wells which will occur. In Florida a deep well (which is the norm) will be about 160 to 200 feet. I read that in South Dakota a deep well is much too expensive. On an average how much does a deep well cost? We still plan on retiring to Rapid City area at some point.
I do not know for sure how much a deep well costs, because I am on municipal water, but I believe they are necessary for the Black Hills region. It is difficult to find shallow water around these parts.
People in Rapid City keep building deeper and deeper into the mountains when they should be building onto the prairie. There is not enough water in the mountains and then we all have to pay with strict water restrictions.
Last time I checked in Drilling a well it was running around 25 bucks a foot which I think is just extremely ridiculous. After all you go 4 feet and your into them 100 bucks. This was last year that I was checking into drilling prices.
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