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Apparently I'm at the mercy of the county. The contractor and septic guy agreed we'd prefer a gravity driven system way down the hill. But the septic guy thought they may ask for unequal length trenches because of the slope (I guess) and would require the whole system to be pumped/pressurized.

I'm building a house. The house is up on a hill, but it has a basement. There are several areas for a septic field all around. The outright best area for the leech field, not considering elevation, may be about 50' from the house in a nice grassy area. But this area is more on the level with...

BTW, got done with this project a while back. I ended up taking the lining down probably 45' below the entire old casing. I think this sealed off a lot of the casing flakes that were clogging my filters. Now the water stays clear with no sediment.

I went against advice here and just cleaned it out with a 2" pump from my pond. I figured with all the crap that already streamed in, there wasn't much risk of aggravating the problem further. I'll be eventually disinfecting regardless. Anyway, I pumped out about 15 feet of mud, sand, and...

I just made the videos public.

I got out there yesterday. I pumped down the water level with the well pump, pulled the pump, then took a couple of videos: I found water streaming in. I dropped the packer down a few feet below this water, and we'll see if things clear up. While I think there is mud in the well, I think...

I called the county about how to grout in this narrow annular space with water present. They recognized how the state standards made it difficult, and the inspector mentioned how much contractors complain and how half-ass of a job they often do in this situation. The inspector will be present...

I've got a 6-rib well packer and a 4" pressure-rated PVC liner. North Carolina requires that the liner be pressure rated to 160 psi (it is), and the liner-casing annular space should be greater than 0.625" (it is), and I should grout between the liner and casing with sand-cement grout (sold as...

I'll probably use a pitless. Now I remember why I was shying away-- I had assumed a while back I'd have to use the 4" sleeve (which now again it looks like I may need), and the wrap-around pitless adapters (to have enough room for the pump) are pretty pricey, around $175. But I think it's...

Someone else messaged me and was curious about this also. I'm going to try and diagnose this some more by running the level down and listening, measuring, etc. Maybe even putting a camera down there. It seems like a "well packer" is made for dealing with this by adding a liner to the 6 inch...

I'm building a house, kind of high-end, and dealing with the builders, county, everyone gets _really_ expensive when I leave things to them. But I've done about $100,000 worth of site work myself, and this stuff has so far flew totally under the radar (I've done it right) and been a great...