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[BigRedDog]

Article from The Blade:

http://www.toledoblade.com/State/2012/07/22/Area-drought-likely-to-rank-among-worst.html

[BigRedDog]

The flies have been biting my legs all afternoon...

I hope that means what I think it does (I'm not going to say it and possibly jinx something though) 

[BigRedDog]

Well mother nature missed another golden opportunity for it to rain here this morning...

this storm went just south of us    We had a few "sprinkles" but the driveway was still dry under the trees...

The only upside to this is that we've saved a bundle on not mowing the lawn this summer...  trim the big weeds (why do they still keep growing anyway?) and forget the grass.

I wonder what our electric bill will be this month from watering the flowers and gardens though?

[Skittelroo]

"I wonder what our electric bill will be this month from watering the flowers and gardens though?"

Not to mention, the rise in my water bill

Are people who have wells having difficulty with the water level and their usege?   Just curious.

[livewire]

Skit, I have a well, but I don't water my lawn.  I figure if God wants it to turn brown, and go dormant, who am I to dispute that?   

As far as water supply, our well is a deep well (ours is about 130 feet deep), which gets it's water from an underground aquifer.  It is really totally separate from what we see on the surface.  Shallow wells can be useful, but they get their supply from surface ground water... what you may see in ditches, or rivers, from rainfall.  Shallow wells can be 10 or 20 feet deep, or sometimes more.  Usually they are driven points, rather than drilled, and in this area the bottom of the well is located in sand, just above the layer of clay.  In good times, shallow wells may produce 1 to 3 gallons per minute, or so, while a deep well can produce 5 to 20 gallons per minute, or more, almost all the time.

I would NOT want to have a shallow well during this drought.   

[BigRedDog]

"I wonder what our electric bill will be this month from watering the flowers and gardens though?"

Not to mention, the rise in my water bill

Are people who have wells having difficulty with the water level and their usege?   Just curious.

We actually have a couple of wells on our property.  One is a "dug" well and is pretty shallow...   about 15 or 16 ft and it's actually on a little hill so really shallower than that.
We had a new well put in as soon as we moved here and all I've ever used that one for is watering and yes it ran dry...  and it was in a summer not near as dry as this year.

Our 4" well is only about 35 ft deep and I would guess our location is catching an aquifer from Lake Erie so I would be very surprised if it ever went dry.  For a few years we did have a farmer nearby that was doing some heavy irrigating and that would change the quality of our well (gave it a slight sulfur smell which is more common over in your area) but it never seemed to hurt the amount of our water.

One time we seemed to be running out of water but when I went and checked the filters the first one was packed full of sand.  I cleaned it and it and no more problems.  That was many years ago.  I did talk to a neighbor later and he said his did the same thing about the same time.  He had heard someone dynamiting stumps in the area and he figured that was what caused the sand to get in the wells.

I grew up on a well that was 175 ft deep...  it never ran out of water, but it was a bit on the salty side