Taking showers everyday is very American and unnecessary

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207. We're lucky.

Our tank is properly sized and the leach field is functioning properly.

Our water table is fairly high. There is a creek running through the backyard. Ironically, whoever dug our well picked the unluckiest spot, since they had to go down about 300 feet to hit water. Next door, their well is 25 feet, tops. Four doors down, they have an artesian. go figure.

We've only run the well dry a few times. The last time was when our water filter got stuck backflushing and drained the whole damned thing straight into the septic tank. We switched to a passive filter after that.

Lately, though, the guy we hired to restain the house has been power-washing it and keeps running the well dry. Hopefully he'll be done after the next try.

But aside from the rare "no water in the well" event, it's great. Best tasting water I've had (once we run it through a carbon cartridge).