Our Well from Hell!

From your replies, I anticipate that you intend to remain on solar. You probably have 300 gallons of water stored below your Grundfos pump. Should you ever go on grid that water could be used and the recovery rate of the well would IMO increase some. I would have thought that you could have pumped more than 100 gallons with the storage above the pump. The water table in your area must be very deep.

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Agmantoo
If they can do it,
you know you can!

my neighbors had to drill 676 feet to hit good water. hundreds of feet of that right before they hit the good water was limestone. they hit several other pockets of water before they hit the limestone, but it was in sandstone. they won't have to worry about the shallow water being affected by drought or by the local stream and any pollution from the stream. other neighbors 1/4 of a mile away settled for the sandstone aguifer about 130 feet deep. i guess it's all about how much money you are willing to spend and what you can live with.

if you were led to believe there was more water down there, maybe there is at greater depths. it gets a bit scary when you see all that money being poured into a hole in the ground. the neighbor with the deep well hit his good water on the last section of pipe he was willing to pay for. as soon as driller started the last section, he hit water.

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"All that is gold does not glitter..."

Unfortunately, there are zero guarantees when drilling.

Generally speaking, if your neighbor 100yds away has good water, you will too. This is what one of my relatives thought. His brother had fantastic water. So he drilled less than 100 yds away. He's drilled two wells, and the water (in the same depths and formations) is undrinkable. Go figure!

Good luck.

Around here, you'll hit water at 6' or less.... our water table is almost literally on the surface right now.

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Okay, this is making more sense to me. Ask your well driller if he can do "hydrofracturing." Hydrofracturing involves pumping water into your borehole under extremely high pressure. The pressure can fracture and fissure the bedrock in the vicinity of your well. Water can then flow back to your well thru these new "pathways" at a higher rate than before.

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This is the government the Founding Fathers warned us about.....

Hi Cabin Fever,

Yep, we have that option...for another $3000.00. The total is now $13,000.00

I might add where we have been inquiring for this service no one is guaranteeing us water. One hydrofracturer is guaranteeing it but wants his money up front and if he does'nt find water rumor is you have to hunt him down
to get your money back.


Diane
http://www.frombeyondthegrid.com