Another reason NOT to use the "Water Thief"
This was posted at the USFS Windy Hill CG at Roosevelt Lake but I have seen similar postings at a number of USFS CG's through the southwest. If a CG only has a few spigots scattered around, often wit...
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The rules have gotten ridiculous and everyone is just paralyzed by all of the environmental rulings. Typical environmental study.....one person gets sick from a possible backflow contamination, so they make the entire US put on back flow eliminators......This country has lost the ability to apply common sense.
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They don't come cheap either.
A regular frost free water pump for my horse barn costs 65.00. Been buying and using them for years. They don't freeze and can be used year round. Yes they siphon back down. For 30 years No one including my horses has ever died from drinking the water from the pump.
Fast forward:
Built a new house and barn. Bought my 65.00 water pump and put it in myself........inspector for barn said NOT!
I had to buy a frost free anti-syphon pump at the cost of 1,200 AND had to be install by a cert well guy.
AND? The darn thing froze solid the first winter.:R
