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The only reason I clicked "like" on your post was because there were no provisions for a "love". Thanx for the link. Made my whole day.
Yes, Nevada has a new home. He is going to the new place on Sunday. Then we are headed over to pick up my new pony right after that.
I was so excited about yesterday's events I had a hard time sleeping.
I called my vet and it should be $100-200 to geld my new little pony. We will do that after the big hunting trip in early October.
I'll put the new pony in the round pen for a few weeks to settle in and he can stay there while I am out of town. I need to set the round pen up today with a feeder and a water trough and a long hose!
I'm reading up on water law/rules in the state since I am in the water co-op now and I am trying to figure out why and what the private water company that runs our city water is doing. How is it legal for them to force an owner onto their water system? Doesn't seem right.
I called my vet and it should be $100-200 to geld my new little pony. We will do that after the big hunting trip in early October.
I'll put the new pony in the round pen for a few weeks to settle in and he can stay there while I am out of town. I need to set the round pen up today with a feeder and a water trough and a long hose!
I'm reading up on water law/rules in the state since I am in the water co-op now and I am trying to figure out why and what the private water company that runs our city water is doing. How is it legal for them to force an owner onto their water system? Doesn't seem right.
I agree and that's bad enough. What irks me is in dry states you're not allowed to collect rainwater in a barrel. They say it belongs to everybody. In states where minor flooding occurs you're supposed to keep the rain that falls on your own property. On top of that in dry seasons they restrict water use for lawns, car washing etc. on the premise of danger to the aquifer. Yet they issued a permit to Niagra bottled water company to pump enough water in one day to keep everybody's lawn green for a year. Seems like Government gets bigger, more intrusive and more corrupt every time you turn around.
The reason I joined the co-op is we are a public utility so that means That if you are already a member of a public utility [which our new co-op is a public utility] then you can't be forced onto the city water company. That's the law in theory. Will it hold up in court? I don't know but it is worth a try!
moanin', Voltville.
It always amazes me how twisted the logic can be when it comes to government. To top it all of, what's good for the geese doesn't apply to the gander.
It always amazes me how twisted the logic can be when it comes to government. To top it all of, what's good for the geese doesn't apply to the gander.
One thing that seems to be bad about our water company is that it is privately owned so there is no public accountability, from what I can see. Does the owner make money? How much money? Is the company being appropriately run? We don't know.
I would guess that the water company is a public utility and as such has to have some degree of openness regarding its' structure, ownership, and profitability. That would be required to make sure it can maintain its status as a public utility. It also could be a publicly held corporation, with stock.
Looks like it is not a public utility since there is a hearing to try to force it to become a public utility on this Wednesday. I'm trying to figure this stuff out but I don't really understand it. However, it does not seem to be a public utility and the company records do not seem to be open to the public.
I guess either laws are different from state to state regarding what constitutes a public utility. It's hard to believe that a water company, supplying water to a large area, would be legally considered anything but a public utility. Then again we have that convoluted logic of government and their cronies.
I don't quite "get it" either. I do know that people have been forced onto city water and their wells forcibly closed and then, later, they were forced onto the sewer system and their septic tanks filled in. All this at a cost of $20,000 that they are forced to pay for water [my understanding is that they put a lien on your property if you won't pay up]. It's another $20,000 when they tell you to go on the sewer system.
That's the same way here. The charges vary, but the home owner is stuck with the bill anyway. Then they're dependent on the utility for water and sewer service and stuck with yet another monthly bill for that. I understand the necessity in high density population areas, but out in the burbs/sticks like we are, and you are, it doesn't seem particularly reasonable or necessary. Again, convoluted logic of politicians, do-gooders and cronies.
Can I play the devil's advocate? If a water company decides to send pipes to every house in a new area, then I think one or two houses (or maybe more) that don't want the water will make it not profitable to run the pipes. So, either every homeowner in a community is happy with the water supply they have, or else every homeowner has to agree to the piped-in water.
I lived in (rented) a house with a community water/sewer system, but it still had a working well. The outside hose was hooked up to the well to mitigate water charges. So I was told you could water the garden and lawn and wash your car, but the water might not be safe to drink. That seems like a reasonable compromise to me. What about that? If it became a reality, would you use the well water for your animals or not? Might it be polluted? I wondered if the well water in the house I rented was polluted by farm fields using insecticides and such stuff. It might not be OK to drink.
Speaking of which, right across the road from that house was a cornfield. There were times when they sprayed it for bugs, and the whole house stank of insecticide. It was a smell hard to mistake. I wondered how healthy that was. And when they plowed the field or whatever, sometimes the dust raised make a brown film on everything in my house. Was it good to breathe that dust?
In spite of that, it was a neat house, and I only decided to move when a prison opened down the road, and the prisoners shouted during some sort of exercises at 5 am.
I didn't like the vibes of living near a prison, and after the teenager we fostered left home, I decided to move and get a smaller apartment away from the prison, though we still dealt with stinks from farm fields. The new fields were owned by Amish farmers, so we did't have bug spray, but they spread a liquid made of manure that smelled pretty bad at certain times. And we had sulfur water from the well, though it was probably safe to drink -- we did -- but it smelled bad.
I lived in (rented) a house with a community water/sewer system, but it still had a working well. The outside hose was hooked up to the well to mitigate water charges. So I was told you could water the garden and lawn and wash your car, but the water might not be safe to drink. That seems like a reasonable compromise to me. What about that? If it became a reality, would you use the well water for your animals or not? Might it be polluted? I wondered if the well water in the house I rented was polluted by farm fields using insecticides and such stuff. It might not be OK to drink.
Speaking of which, right across the road from that house was a cornfield. There were times when they sprayed it for bugs, and the whole house stank of insecticide. It was a smell hard to mistake. I wondered how healthy that was. And when they plowed the field or whatever, sometimes the dust raised make a brown film on everything in my house. Was it good to breathe that dust?
In spite of that, it was a neat house, and I only decided to move when a prison opened down the road, and the prisoners shouted during some sort of exercises at 5 am.
I didn't like the vibes of living near a prison, and after the teenager we fostered left home, I decided to move and get a smaller apartment away from the prison, though we still dealt with stinks from farm fields. The new fields were owned by Amish farmers, so we did't have bug spray, but they spread a liquid made of manure that smelled pretty bad at certain times. And we had sulfur water from the well, though it was probably safe to drink -- we did -- but it smelled bad.
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