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Seriously... 100ft? Our barn's well is right in front of it, about 50ft maybe at the most, and it's potable. Our house is really old, and the well for the house sits about 10 ft from the septic field, and the water quality was 0/0.
We have our poo bunker about 300ft away from the well, in the foundation of an old milking barn that fell down well before we moved in. I think proper poop management is really important as well.
The well and septic being very close is common in our community. Here's why; the older homes had a well. Then they put in a septic. The well goes dry from the excavation from installing the septic, same as wells going dry when they bury electric lines to the house now. A new well is dug. It goes dry or has such a reduced capacity from home development in the adjacent area. A new one is dug and guess where the only available area with water is. Right by the septic. Also in the 60's when the interstate went in all homes north of the interstate had the wells dry up, including artesian wells. Our area goes with 100-200' drilled wells now.
Yeah, a lot of places are like that these days... ours is close simply because the well was close to the house, and its the original 1870's well, and they had to put the septic in and the closest spot that they could dig was right behind the house, about 15-20ft from the well.
Our house well isn't great, but it's not dry... our barn well is about 100ft deep, and FILLED with water, you could never drain this well it's almost impossible. When we get our new well drilled, it'll be further down in front of the house hopefully, far away from the septic.
