Sludging a Well

[bayesoft]

Anyone have any experience sludging their own well?

[agmantoo]

I am curious as to what you are referencing and I do not understand the question. Certainly you do not want to put sludge in the well. Could you mean slugging and if so explain more your intent please.

[fordy]

Originally Posted by bayesoft

Anyone have any experience sludging their own well?

................Are you calling the excess sand that accumulates in the bottom of the well bore as "Sludging" . Normally , when a new well is drilled , the driller will pump the well continuously say for 24 hours to remove most of the accumulated sand in the well . After a certain amount of time it should clean Up . If , you are referring too some other kind of sludge then you will need the services of an experienced well man to evaluate your problem . fordy...

[WAB]

If you are talking about sand,thats easy to fix. Take the drop pipe out of the casing. Go rent a large air compressor, take the airline and feed it down into the casing untill you are 10-15 ft into the water. Just crank it up and let it run. It will shoot water,sand,mud,or what ever is in there out of the top for 20 ft! I would let it run for several hours to create a "basin" at the bottom of the well. The larger the basin then the longer it will last.
If you have mud then chances are your casing either has a hole in it or its not down to the first rock. That will probably take a new well to fix.Ive had to do this a couple of times in the 20 yrs since the well was drilled. They didnt put my casing down deep enough either. I put a screen on it and it takes most of the sand and dirt out.


Good luck!