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Hi Glenn!

I am a masters water science student (end of fisrt year) so 
I hope my background is good enough to give you some tools to 
solve your problem.

First your problem is still formulated in very broad terms, so the first
step is to survey for additional information, you would like to explore
your possibilities and decide what is cheaper for you. 

>1) Can we drink water off of asphalt shingle roofing, tin roofing?

You would like to make a chemical analysis of the water you have there.
You can get from any water analysis laboratory recomendations on how
to get and storage appropriately a sample. The minerals that you will 
actually find in your water will tell you what kind of uses you may
assign to that water. (Drinkink, cleaning, etc.)

Regarding to the well, you would need to run a hydraulic test on it to
estimate your capacity, but by now you can answer some questions:

A. Is the well drilled in the rock (volcanic?) or in sediments?
 
B. What kind of maintenance has the well received and with what frequency? 
   A chemical manteinace can improve the yield of your well

C. What kind of equipment are you using to pump water out of the well?
   If you use an appropriate system you migh improve the well discharge.

Additional ideas:
  If the water well is good quality you can use it as drinking water and
  get another source for other uses.

Good luck,

F. Alejandro Bonilla
LAWR, UCDavis
fabonilla@ucdavis.edu


From: baltic@hydrosci.caes.ucdavis.edu (Baltic)
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In article <3s81ml$257@mark.ucdavis.edu>, ez045395@barney.ucdavis.edu (Helen Hanson) says:
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>If anyone out there can help this gentleman, please respond to this 
>thread--Thanks!!
>
>_______________________________________________________________________
>Our non-profit organization, Youth With A Mission, is building a base on 
>the Hawaiian island of Kauai. We have a serious water problem. The 80 ft 
>well that was drilled is unable to provide the quantity of water we need. 
>
>We are only 12 miles from Mount Waialele, the wettest spot on earth that 
>gets an average 452 inches of rain per year. We need help in designing a 
>water catchment system with the existing buildings. The sort of questions 
>I have are things such as;
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>1) Can we drink water off of asphalt shingle roofing, tin roofing?
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>2) Do we need special filters?
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>3) What sort of storage systems are available and recommended?
>
>4) Are there formulas we can use to estimate our capacity?
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>
>From: Glenn Lowry
>(A very thirsty Base Director)
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