249 S Westwood St St Porterville, CA 93257

Own 14.31 Acres! The property has been in family hands since 1896. The water is the purest, sweetest water you will ever taste. Forever unbordered by dairies and vineyards, it has never been tainted with pollution from man made chemical contaminants. It is filtered through the deep sands of the aquifer running underneath the Tule River and is replenished annually both by rainfall and, thanks to the river, the snowpack up in the Sierras. Mandated by law and the Lower Tule Irrigation District's rights to water from Lake Success, the ''Riparian Run'' (in June) assures the annual replenishment of the aquifer. The soil is sandy loam and it is not beset by the plague of adobe, caliche, compaction, or ANY other difficult-to-work profiles underneath the surface. There are some rocks WAY down deep, but even they have not hindered any efforts to drill a well on the north side of the river. The soil tends toward the alkaline side of the pH scale, running about 7.5 or 7.6 as the seller recalls.