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[sissy]

Thats why i like my well water ,only thing you have to worry about is that it goes dry .Mine is almost 500 ft in the ground so wonder sometimes where it is all coming from .I don't want to suck the earth dry .Thats why I like to capture all the rain water i can .

 

[CountryEscape]

I actually have 3 wells on my property, 2 that go to the house and one that I use for the horse's water trough. I used the horse well for the pond, drained it. Let it fill back in a couple of days and then filled the pond the rest of the way. All 3 of my wells are shallow, less than 50' (probably more like 30 but I can't measure the other 2, just going by what I was told). Water table is very high where I live, so they fill back in fast. There is no chlorine or anything else in them that sometimes city water treats with, BUT, I have to deal with other things that may have seeped into my wells, so still have to be a little cautious.

 

[j.w]

Sissy your well is 500ft deep? Is that a mis-print or really that deep?

 

[addy1]

We have no clue how deep ours is, it gives us water, so far no issues. We do filter for the dirt and rocks it tends to have in it, esp after a bad rain.

 

[CountryEscape]

If Sissy's well is that deep, around here we call them "deep wells" (I know , DUH!!!). But, in comparison to my "shallow wells", the deep wells are only maybe 12" diameter, whereas my shallow well is 3' in diameter.
Addy, to get my house well to pass inspection 3 years ago, they had to dig down 10' and cap the well, bringing up only a 12" pipe, so that no ground water could get inside it. The well for the horse's water trough typically sends out "yucky" water for the first couple of seconds, then it's clear again. No wonder they prefer the "bubbling brook" where my sump pump dumps out instead!

 

[addy1]

Our comes out clean, looks clean, tastes great, but every now and then you get a spurt of tiny black rocks or some brownish water. So we filter the house water, the yard water is unfiltered.

 

[sissy]

Yep my well is 500 ft.deep and cost over 5 thousand dollars for 2 pumps and 2 one inch pipes .The well driller wanted to make sure the water was not coming from a ledge and had the flow rate he wanted .The builder who is building here does his wells at only 150 ft to 200 ft deep and 3 of those houses wells went dry already .I wanted a well driller who was going to to be honest with me .We hit water at 275 ft but it was not good water and had a smell to it but when we hit the 500 mark we hit a gusher and we all got soaked .There is a lot of iron in the water in this area and is well known for it and if you go deep you will not get it as much ,but people just want to get away cheap and then find out later what the real cost is .HEALTH.My well driller told me every couple of years put a gallon of bleach down the well and then let it sit for a half hour and then let the water run for awhile to clear out the bleach .I could not do it after my son put in the filter system but have done it since I got the hydrants in and can see it cleaned a lot of stuff from the pump and sock area .The sock is a screen they put around the pump to keep small stones and sand and silt out .Interesting to see these big shafts loaded up as they pound and grind there way down the shaft hole .They just keep adding to them when each one gets close to ground level .They have them all loaded on the side of the truck and pull them off one by one and they go into the ground and when they hit water they pull them back up one by one .Took 3 days to do my well .

 

[addy1]

That is interesting about the gallon of bleach, maybe we should do that. We do get some tiny black rocks in the filter, real tiny.

 

[j.w]

That is really interesting what you wrote sissy. We thought of having our well dug deeper now cuz it does not have good volume. Can only use one hose at a time or pump pressure goes way down. But neighbor tried it and did not get better volume so we decided not to try. Course he did not go down that much deeper. Think he might have went down maybe to 100ft or so but not sure. Think ours are down about 60 or 70ft now. Wonder if we'd come up w/ water way down deeper like yours? Afraid to take the chance tho cuz they make no promises!

 

[addy1]

Maybe try the bleach system jw, maybe your screen has gotten clogged up some.

 

[sissy]

The well driller told me about that but told me to make sure I did not run it through my whole house filter because he did not know if it would harm it and he did put a disconnect on it so I could bypass the filter .The hydrant pulls more water and the reason for the 2 pumps is there are two storage tanks .One goes to half the house and the other goes to the other half of the house .Stan had told me that since the house had 4 bathrooms and there was plumbing in the basement for a second kitchen a 2 extra bathrooms down there it was better to do it that way and if 1 pump went down we always had the second pump for back up .Stan had told me that if you did not go deep enough that you would have a tendency to pick up more silt also .So far I'm glad I listened to him and before I talked to any well driller I looked it up on the internet and absorbed all the info I could on septic tanks and wells and then I interviewed 5 well drillers and Stan was the only one I was impressed by .Plus the other guys seemed to get this idea I was just a dumb women ,guess what not .Stan has stayed a friend also since he did my well .Always better to do home work and learn what you can .I was amazed at how skinny the well pumps are actually and they are so shiny and new they look when they go in and learned a lot about well points also .

 

[j.w]

Has always been this way w/ volume. When it was put in that is the amount of volume it said it got on the well report and about the same for the other 4 houses here also. It was put in brand new when we bought the house so not clogged just lame! It does good enough for what we need. We get about 6gals per minute. Our poor neighbors across the road get only half that! Lot's of times watering is not needed much around here anyways. Just would be nice to be able to use 2 hoses for something at one time but not too big of a deal.

 

[sissy]

You may want a storage tank to hold the water before it gets to the outlets around the house .It's called a holding tank and has a bladder in it and they come in 20 gallon all the way up to 80 gallons .They are blue most times and found where the well drilling stuff is sold

 

[j.w]

80 gals doesn't sound like much holding room to me. How does it work to get to use more hoses at the same time?

 

[sissy]

yes it stores the water instead of making your well pump keep going on and off ,the on and off wears the pump out faster .I have a 40 gallon one and that is really alot of water because as you are using it it starts refilling itself .Most of my neighbors have the 20 gallon ones .If you get a hydrant the water comes straight from the well so it just keeps flowing .Plus a hydrant will produce more flow from the pump and clean the pump sock plus clean out your water lines coming up the shaft of the well .I was amazed at how much dirt come up from the water lines in the shaft for the first few minutes .I put the bleach down also because that also helps kill any kind of bacteria that may have built up also .