well we got the situation under control,,,,the mans brother and sister came in today,,,they spoke with him...after they explained that it could hurt the kids, and they thought it may be what caused some of the untimely deaths in the family,,,the old feller finally agreed to let us help him out.........
wow i got my self into a job,,,they have gravity fed water,,,the old sistern that was in the spring was so fragile ,,,i mean all the rocks had turned to sand.....we tried to remove the feed pipe...that was not happening without destroying the holding reservoir ...anyhow we had a friend come over with a back hoe..he just dug the whole thing up....my dad had a 500 gallon plastic tank,,,we used it....
it took about all day but we changed out all the water feeding lines.....it was actually easy after we got the sistern replaced...the house has a full basement....so there was no crawling under an old house........
anyhow all is well, his sister is even going to take all the young kids home with her for a week or too....she is taking them for blood work.....oh by the way im sure everone wants to know how much lead was there.....its impossible to geuse....id say over a ton.....there was over 200 feet of large thick walled pipe leading from the spring to the house.......the man said his dad brought it home from a construction job many years ago......we didnt dig the stuff up...we just dug a new line beside it....id have loved to have it but i was trying to be as un intrusive as i could......
oh and by the way,,,he sent tons of home canned pickles and peppers over also several dozen sweet corn and a ton of tomatoes......i didnt have the heart to tell him we already have so much that im giving the stuff away daily......anyhow long story short all is well up the holler again...and at least i feel better
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