Those of you with well water, please read...

[DuckyBoys]

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I don't think it was that much extra because we had to put in a new pump at the same time so we combined labor. The pump was 1800 I think but I don't remember what the total was.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Loss of some pressure can be your bladder tank but loss of a lot or all your
pressure cannot be.

As the water level drops the pump needs to pump the water higher up the well.
This will cause a decrease in pressure.

Air in the line can only be the pump sucking in air.

Your well can't keep up. Without looking at it I can only be 90% sure of that.

Solutions:
Many people have wells with a low recovery rate. You can drill deeper, drop the
pump deeper (If its powerful enough and there is room to drop it). If it only happens
when you are filling the pool then maybe you can just live with it.

To drill a well deeper or crack a well can cost thousands in New England.

 

[Their Other Mother]

Our well is 540 feet deep, water level sits about 100 feet below the surface and the well driller says there is not enough water to make it worth the effort to case and pump. That was 10 years ago, the water is still 100 feet below the surface and always has been. Our neighbor about 1000 feet away has a well that produces about 40 gallons a minute. The have dozens of horses, cattle and other animals. What Gives? My Great Grandfather used to drop a stick of dynomite down a well shaft to open up the veins. That was about 1910. We would like to try something like that but where do you find dynomite in 2008?

 

[dacjohns]

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Subsurface water can be fickle.

Dynamite might open it but could also cave it all in and then you would have nothing.

Rock quarries and other mining companies and construction companies have access to dynamite but I'm pretty sure you have to be licensed to obtain and use.

 

[VaM715]

Wells age differently. Most of the time, sediment closes up the fissures of the water flow over time. There is a procedure called Hydrofracture that most good well pump installers can do that is alot cheaper than setting up on the well and drilling deeper or drilling a new hole. The process involves pressurizing the well case to a high pressure which forces out all the sediment and opens the water fissures wider. I know of wells that were producing 3 gallons a minute that were able to produce 8 gallons a minute after it was done.
Just an option for you.

Here's a good link on it.
http://www.centralsupplyinc.com/statenh/ws-1-3.htm

 

[1dude]

Al Queda probably has dynamite! DOH! I think you can get a permit and buy it at least in some states. You'll probably end up with a case and use one stick.

My dad told me about that trick too, he said that it cracks and breaks up the rock at the bottom to allow more water to drain into the shaft.
Its not done anymore so I wonder if it really was effective or not. Or just dangerous!

I've heard over time if the area develops and more wells are drilled that the water table will drop. This will cause you to have shortages, most noticeable in later summer.

Maybe use a bigger storage tank and control the pump to slowly fill the tank over time so it don't go dry. That way you will have a big amount in reserve. Probably much cheaper to do that than re-drill.

 

[Their Other Mother]

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Subsurface water can be fickle.

Dynamite might open it but could also cave it all in and then you would have nothing.

Rock quarries and other mining companies and construction companies have access to dynamite but I'm pretty sure you have to be licensed to obtain and use.

That's why I wish my great grandfather was still around, he knew just the right amount to use. We would like to try pumping the heck out of it for awhile to see if that helps to clean out the fissures. We are looking for a place that will rent us a deep well pump. Water prices have gone sky high along with everything else. $70.00 per 2500 gal. load, we use about 3 to 4 a month in the summer - you do the math. We figure even if we can pump the equivelent of 1 tank a month it will help.

 

[spatcher]

I know 30 years ago or so that some people in Fla used to "clear" their artesian wells by removing the lead from a shotgun shell, removing the head of the well and shooting down into it. Dont really know what it was supposed to do but a lot of people did that. Any guesses?