A number of residents living outside the city have had their wells run dry because of drought, Shanahan said, and more people may have to consider digging new wells even deeper.<\/p>\n
“Most of the ones I’ve talked to are within that 100 [feet] or less parameter,” he said. “That seems to be where the issue is.”<\/p>\n
Municipal wells in Miramichi are typically 400 feet, o about 122 metres, deep and can cost more than a million dollars to dig, he said.<\/p>\n
Shanahan’s household is on a private well, and he himself has considered redrilling his well \u2014 but that comes at a cost.<\/p>\n
He for an average residential home, the cost would be about $10,000, an estimate he’s heard from plumbers and well drillers.<\/p>\n
There are signs to look for that indicate a drying well, Shanahan said. Water might be dirtier, pressure might be lower and there may be more air in the flow of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of residents living outside the city have had their wells run dry because of drought, Shanahan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,3589,66,11738],"class_list":["post-270182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-ice","tag-science","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}