Wells are running dry and causing a headache for some Cape Coral homeowners, with one man saying he had to pay to dig his pipe an extra 40 feet deeper.<\/p>\n
Michael Hart has lived on well water in northwest Cape Coral for 15 years. He never had a problem with his pressure going too low until two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran out of water; we didn\u2019t have water,\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n
Typically, water pressure issues happen during the dry season between December and mid-May. After speaking to his neighbors, Hart found out his well wasn\u2019t the only one to run dry; four other people nearby had the same problem. Hoping for help, he called a technician who said his 120-foot well needed to go deeper because it was pumping too much air.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018We need to lower the pump down further; we\u2019ll put you down to, like, about 160 feet,’\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n
The job cost Hart almost $2,000, a bill he never expected and certainly didn\u2019t budget for. But, looking around in his neighborhood, Arielle Pisano from Water Medic of Cape Coral says Hart should\u2019ve seen it coming thanks to all the new home construction.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery well that\u2019s drilled is like having a straw in a bowl,\u201d Pisano said.<\/p>\n
And as more people move to Cape Coral, the water in that bowl disappears much faster. The only solution is for people to come together to minimize wasteful water usage.<\/p>\n
\u201cCape Coral right now is down to irrigating one day a week, so I think following your scheduled timeframe is going to help,\u201d Pisano said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wells are running dry and causing a headache for some Cape Coral homeowners, with one man saying he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[94954,209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-210495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-archives","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}