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Costs for getting a well?
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Depends on where you live and how deep they must drill to reach water. Call the person with the machine and get a quote.
Is it cheaper when you buy water from trucks for ever and ever and also run out of water between deliveries?
Well?
This is what happens when the government runs a utility. Incompetence, corruption and they just don't care.
Many years ago I rented what I thought was a great house for next to nothing, only to find out the water never came.
I ended up doing the trucks of water for a year until the contract was up, and moved out.
That was back when a truck of water was 300 pesos.
Buying water like that was a great lesson for me and I never committed the same mistake twice.
Just because somebody builds a house somewhere doesn't automatically mean CORAPLATA has to jump through hoops to get water to it.
Windy, I'm guessing you don't follow the CORAPLATA FB page, or the INAPA page, or the INDRHI page, or any other page that addresses all of the public works pages outlining all of the projects that are in process to bring water to folks who don't receive it now.
It's easier to accuse them of being incompetent, or all corrupt, or they don't care just because somebody complains about the govt. not delivering free water.
I ended up doing the trucks of water for a year until the contract was up, and moved out.
That was back when a truck of water was 300 pesos.
Buying water like that was a great lesson for me and I never committed the same mistake twice.
Just because somebody builds a house somewhere doesn't automatically mean CORAPLATA has to jump through hoops to get water to it.
Windy, I'm guessing you don't follow the CORAPLATA FB page, or the INAPA page, or the INDRHI page, or any other page that addresses all of the public works pages outlining all of the projects that are in process to bring water to folks who don't receive it now.
It's easier to accuse them of being incompetent, or all corrupt, or they don't care just because somebody complains about the govt. not delivering free water.
I would say based on our experience with two drilled wells and one dug well it averaged out to about 1000 pesos per foot, then you need to buy a pump, another 20-30, 000 for a good one....etc.
I do accuse them of corruption and incompetence because they are corrupt and incompetent. I don't need web pages with fake projects to help me understand that. The fact that they went from 40 pounds of pressure when I moved here to the water being off more than half the time is real world proof.
By the way, I have a contract with them, It is cheap, but it ain't free. And I have to pay if I get water or not.
Here are some posts on FB about the wonders of CORAAPLATA:
May 20 ·
· Looking for a water truck at reasonable price. Cistern is now empty and no response from Corraplatta as to when we will next get water. Thank you
Coraaplata .... what the hell. I heard in parts of Sosúa they are giving water 1 day a week. My maid said in La Cienega they haven’t had street water in 5 days ! I don’t know if I’m getting street water more the 2x a week. Using all my back up and then some to keep water running in my apartments. Does anyone know what their official schedule is ?
Shelley White
I've not received Corraplata water for a month now in Perla Marina, we're all water starved here. Meanwhile, the Corraplata bill gets delivered and they expect to be paid.
Marie Christine Champagne
I live just beside Casa Linda and no water for 8 days now, my water tank is very low, I have maybe a few dsya left and then ???? This is ridiculous !
Karen Levy
This has been the Bain of my existence for last 9 months.No water yet always the same water Bill as when I had it regularly.How can that be?Im so done with this.
Justin James shared a link.
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· Looking for a water truck at reasonable price. Cistern is now empty and no response from Corraplatta as to when we will next get water. Thank you
Coraaplata .... what the hell. I heard in parts of Sosúa they are giving water 1 day a week. My maid said in La Cienega they haven’t had street water in 5 days ! I don’t know if I’m getting street water more the 2x a week. Using all my back up and then some to keep water running in my apartments. Does anyone know what their official schedule is ?
Shelley White
I've not received Corraplata water for a month now in Perla Marina, we're all water starved here. Meanwhile, the Corraplata bill gets delivered and they expect to be paid.
Marie Christine Champagne
I live just beside Casa Linda and no water for 8 days now, my water tank is very low, I have maybe a few dsya left and then ???? This is ridiculous !
Karen Levy
This has been the Bain of my existence for last 9 months.No water yet always the same water Bill as when I had it regularly.How can that be?Im so done with this.
I doubt that its cheaper to buy water plus you dont know what shithole they took it from
- Michaela Mam Mussnie
we also don’t have water ..... for weeks
- https://www.facebook.com/ldmathieu?...2Eq1Eq2U2WcT9xJID9cE6HIg4aahiwOTg&__tn__=R]-R
Luisa D Mathieu
This is a night mare 2021 Worst than ever and nobody from Coraplata gave us explanation
- https://www.facebook.com/eleonora.d...2Eq1Eq2U2WcT9xJID9cE6HIg4aahiwOTg&__tn__=R]-R
Eleonora Da Cruz Smeraldo
La verdad son 10 dias playa chiquita no llega
https://www.facebook.com/eleonora.b...2Eq1Eq2U2WcT9xJID9cE6HIg4aahiwOTg&__tn__=R]-R
Eleonora Giuseppe Bliss Holding
Vallan a Coral Plata con la boleta del agua y pedir la cancelaciòn... Màs somos y mejor es.. Para no hablar de las aguas negras... Son 7 meses que estan jugando y no hacen nada que venga la televiciòn
- https://www.facebook.com/an.runwild...2Eq1Eq2U2WcT9xJID9cE6HIg4aahiwOTg&__tn__=R]-R
An Runwild
Didn't realize things were so bad. I was last in RD/Cabarete for the first 4 months of the year and heard of intermittent water problems. Now it sounds like a crisis.
A normal tinaco full of water costs 500 pesos these days. If you have to but one or more a week that soon adds up, especially if you are going to live at your property for a long time.
We have not had corraplata water for well over 7 years. We had the contract revoked by our lawyer for breach of contract. Check your agreement to see if they are obligated to provide trucked water? Not that they will honor that.
We harvest rain water from our roof. Can be done rather inexpensively and common in remote areas. Our gutter water is screened by a leaf catcher then partly separated via a "first flush" system. The cleaner water is plumbed into one of two cisterns. Great for pool, car wash and gardens. Amazon has the leaf catcher and flush systems.
Well was about 40' deep but it is only 35' above sea level and 500' from the shore. Water is salty but we filter via 3 500 gpd RO units (not cheap to buy and need maintenance/filters often) that fills our house cistern then filtered and U.V.ed for whole house clean drinking water from any tap. Well water is OK for lawn and most garden watering but DOES burn and kill some shrubs. Water test kits on Amazon also.
With a valved plumbing system, we can draw from both cisterns using the purification system.
We have NEVER run out of water again....after booting corraplata.
We harvest rain water from our roof. Can be done rather inexpensively and common in remote areas. Our gutter water is screened by a leaf catcher then partly separated via a "first flush" system. The cleaner water is plumbed into one of two cisterns. Great for pool, car wash and gardens. Amazon has the leaf catcher and flush systems.
Well was about 40' deep but it is only 35' above sea level and 500' from the shore. Water is salty but we filter via 3 500 gpd RO units (not cheap to buy and need maintenance/filters often) that fills our house cistern then filtered and U.V.ed for whole house clean drinking water from any tap. Well water is OK for lawn and most garden watering but DOES burn and kill some shrubs. Water test kits on Amazon also.
With a valved plumbing system, we can draw from both cisterns using the purification system.
We have NEVER run out of water again....after booting corraplata.
Thanks everyone for the replies and comments. Yes, I'm getting water trucks once a week to fill up the cistern and I'm actually unable to maintain a pool since November. Considering the costs and price indication I got, I would break even with the well within 10 months AND I would have a pool and not worrying about water in the cistern.
Do you have any contact for a well company so that I can get quotes? Thanks.
And yes, I've been over and over the Coraaplata topic on all kinds of different Facebook groups. I honestly don't care about why and what - I'm just looking at a solution of my problem even though I'm only renting the place longterm...
Do you have any contact for a well company so that I can get quotes? Thanks.
And yes, I've been over and over the Coraaplata topic on all kinds of different Facebook groups. I honestly don't care about why and what - I'm just looking at a solution of my problem even though I'm only renting the place longterm...
I know a guy in punta russia that gets all his water from rain even in a drought. THis is a semi arid area like Mont cristi. I was surprised that it was enough. Mind you he was very careful with it. In a place with more rain it might work
And still no response on who can drill wells which in Spanish are called Pozos Tubulares.
Here is one way to search for well drillers who are called Perforadoras de Pozos.
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Here is one way to search for well drillers who are called Perforadoras de Pozos.
Perforadoras de pozos en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana | Paginas Amarillas
Encuentra teléfonos y direcciones de negocios en la categoria de Perforadoras de pozos en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Consulta perfiles completos de Perforadoras de pozos y encuentra lo que necesitas.
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Hello Jana and welcome to DR1. Where in the DR are you located, and is it by the beach, bottom farm land, mountainous area, rocky.. ect?? That would help to get you well drilling information.
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