My Alaska Life

One of the necessities out in the wilderness is clean water. Living by a river there is a lot of water but even though people in the old days used to use it for bathing and for drinking I prefer not to. Some people out in the bush have dug wells but we don’t have one. However, many years ago while Jeff was walking along the beach on the other side of the river he heard water running and realized he had found a natural spring. He dug it out and put a pipe in it and water has been running out of it now for a decade. The other day when we went to get some water there was not a drop coming out. I was worried for a minute. It was buried in snow but Jeff dug it out and found that the pipe had broken loose at the connection and he was just the person to repair it. He had it hooked back up and running again in no time. I’m so glad to continue to have fresh spring water