You could always do a gypsy well. We did one at Swift Valley last year and the water was drinkable right from the ground.
You could always do a gypsy well. We did one at Swift Valley last year and the water was drinkable right from the ground.
DO NOT DRINK THE WATER ON SITE!!!!!!
I have not long finished a hydrology and human health course, and an environmental earth science course.
much of those courses covered groundwater and the issue of leachates and pollutants.
Water DOES NOT get coloured by the type of rock it flows over.
red or orange water is contaminated - i cant say for certain what with but for goodness sake don't drink it.
Acid mine drainage could be the cause. run off from the motor way is also a problem not to mention pesticides from fields.
filtering and boiling will kill most bugs - however heavy metals will remain in the water. (mercury, selenium, chromium etc)
as said - take your water with you.
andy
ps - macka is my gamer tag. lol.
Thanks for that Andy,
On the road beyond the main gate of the Hopetoun Estate, there is a dell with an orange stream, most of the rock exposed there is rusty red (iron oxide?). This eventually runs down about 800mtrs to the foreshore.
This dell is directly below a very old disused quarry...
I'll ask discretely on the estate in the next few days, but it's been like that since I've lived here (20 odd years).
Cheers,
Liam
All the big supermarkets have 2 litre bottles from about .20p. These have a sell/use by date, so would they be good to cache ?, i'm thinking of burying a few, at intervals along the canal from Nottingham to Grantham, so when i walk it i don't have to worry about water.
Rob
the red is probably from iron in rocks
It'd be perfectly safe if you did this. Burying it will keep it cool and stop algae from forming. Ensure you create an obvious to you marker system so that you can find the bottles again!