but luckily it looks as if there will be a drop to drink.
Yesterday there was drilling on site (preceded by some dowsing, I believe, although that might just be West-Highland speak for standing around with a cup of tea and a biscuit and asking Alec Sutherland what he saw when he was driving the digger around the site) and the initial signs weren't good. Mention was made of "taking the water from the burn and sticking it in a holding tank and purifying it". Then they drilled a bit further and at 140m (I think) they struck water. About 15 gallons per hour, which is classed as fairly poor. That would also need to be put into a holding tank to make sure one could get through baths & showers & so on.
Today we had a message from the builders that the flow is now 80 gallons per hour, which is Much Better. That wouldn't need a holding tank, even. So looks like you'll be able to stay clean when you come to visit. Which is good.
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I suspect, as with all such things, it will have to be cautious optimism. What other approach to take to life off the grid? But they manage with water off the roof in the West Indies and in some of the Hebridean islands; and Glengarry really is a pretty damp place. So if the worse comes to the worse, chaps, we can always get water for your tea by taking a bucket to the burn, or by wringing out some peat.
Actually, reading Mary's emails carefully, I think dowsing was going to take place after the initial drilling, rather than before.
What is quite sweet is that Mary, planning to save us money, I think, and probably well aware of tales such as the one that transpired five miles away down the glen, of thousands of pounds thrown down a deeper and deeper hole with no water ever found, had told Alistair to instruct the chaps to stop. But with sturdy Highland independence they defied her and went another score of metres. Some moral here.
Enough for a bottling plant? Along with the wild boar sausages, venison burgers and green burial site, it could be going concern.
I am still not really sure that the depth was 120 or 140 metres, rather than feet. We are only 137 metres above sea level. So far as I recall, the people a half a mile away found water at 60 or 80 metres. Must check.
any news on the watery- front?
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