Thu Dec 03, 2015 4:44 pm
I looked into getting a well installed so I could manipulate water levels on our wetland. The "upper" basin of the property is a flat temporary wetland, no cattails, and when we get heavy rains, is flooded grass full of bugs and weed seeds. Would be easy to manipulate water levels on that, as the NRCS already built the dikes. Same with the lower basin...it's full of cattails, but when the water is high enough, the muskrats open it up fast and it's a great roost pond. Sinking a well would only cost about $1600, but there is no electric within 3/4 mile, and the REA quoted me $27,000 to run underground transmission and set a transformer unless I signed a contract stating I was going to build a dwelling within 5 years. Maybe when I retire I'll move back to MN and build there, put a well and electric pumps in, crush a couple drain tiles to create a flooded crop basin adjacent to the crp, and have my own little playground.
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