Day #5 of "Water Wait" - Update

After calling in the pros yesterday, the only answers we have are price tags.  To install a new pumping system, $1000.  To connect to city water, $1586.  Initial estimates for connecting to the city were over $2000, but after finding out we can use the more affordable PEX tubing instead of copper, the price tag came down to the $1586.  We agonized over this decision for several hours last night because we wanted to save as much expense as possible and consider expediancy as well.  The well people can probably get it done in a couple of hours, whereas the digging people will take at least until next week because they have to do a "Call Before You Dig" - even though we just did one a week ago for the trenches we've dug over the past week.  It turns out every contractor must make their own call.  If they call today, the earliest they can start their dig is going to be Monday or maybe even Tuesday.  At this point, Dan is SO burned out on trying to figure out the well that he just wants the city water and forget the well.  The only 2 reasons we could think of to keep the well while doing pro's and con's of our choices last night was that we don't have a water bill and we like the self suffiency of having our own water supply - but then again I suppose not having the technical skills to maintain the well or fix it when it breaks down rules that a moot point.  Dan has done a great job of figuring it out so far, but he's pretty clear that he's just DONE with that thing after this week.

Last night, after working on it some more, and after I said "let's just try it one more time, maybe something was clogged and will work now" and it DID, for about 5 minutes, the choice is now pretty dang clear.  City water here we come!