From: "@frank.net   
      
   On 11/9/2019 8:23 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > Frank wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> I was too up until a couple of years ago.  We live in a hilly area.  My   
   >> lot drops about 40 feet from highest part above to lowest below.  I had   
   >> to use a self propelled mower as a rider could turn over on the down   
   >> slope.  Worst was back yard where neighbors on both sides do not cut but   
   >> my wife wanted ours cut.  So I got a lawn crew as do half my   
   >> neighborhood.  I still do leaves and clean gutters.   
   >   
   >    not much for hills here unless they are man-made.   
   > that is true of our property too.  the change in   
   > elevation for most of it is about a foot or two but   
   > we had to bring in some fill when building for the   
   > septic drain field (clay doesn't drain very fast) so   
   > that is the highest part.   
   >   
   >    we are not too far in elevation above the level of Lake   
   > Huron/Michigan and we lose about half of the difference   
   > within half a mile.  so that means for the next 29   
   > miles the land only drops another 15 feet.   
   >   
   >    this area used to be an inland sea/swampy area.  there   
   > is coal and salt veins under us among the glacial till.   
   > flat and mundane agricultural area with some forest lands   
   > that have regrown since they were initially cleared.   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
   >   
      
   Most of Delaware is near sea level but in the northern part where I live   
   maximum elevation is about 450 ft.  I think we are about 350.  Not   
   mountainous but hilly.  My two septic fields are evaporation beds as   
   there are probably clay layers limiting the perk.  Probably a good thing   
   as two neighbors had to shell out $25,000 each when they sold their   
   houses to put in grey water treatment tanks to remove metals and   
   bacteria before going to their drain fields where the perk was probably   
   too good.   
      
   Funny in my front yard the perk must be good compared to the back   
   because I needed a new well dug this year and it was all porous rock.   
      
   I had a friend heavily into gardening and he said were were at about the   
   best climate for growing a large variety of things.   
      
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