mountbiking
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Hello,
I have spent the last few days perusing the forums here trying to find a person with my problem, a few came close but didn't quite apply.
My father-in-law has owned a cabin by a river for decades (at lease 30 years), it has a driven point well in the slab that runs down 48'. The water is very sulfury so they only take showers and flush the toilet with it. Recently (in the past 2 years) supply to the pump has seemed to drop off, he burnt up two pumps and when they were running, it was much longer than the normal duty cycle we had come to anticipate. He thought that the point on the well had clogged or corroded or deteriorated and decided to drive a new well.
Last Monday, prior to starting any work, we dipped a wrench rope combo into the old 1.25" well pipe and found water at 13' below the top of the pipe. I then attached a pitcher pump, primed it, and commenced pumping until there was so much suction in the pipe the pitcher pump handle would whip up lightening fast if you just let go of it. No water came out. Pulled the pitcher pump and we had drawn the water level up to 6' below the top of the pipe. Our educated guess was, that well produced for decades and now a pitcher pump won't cut it, she must be clogged.
Today we drove a new 1.25" point down to 22'. We would have made it to 23' except we cut 12'' of one of the 10' sticks for another project. The screen was purchased at Big R (local farm supply) and is one of the circle hole ones. Lots of Teflon tape used and we tightened the daylights out of each connection.
At 23' depth on the new installation we now have a water in the pipe 12' below the top of the pipe. I attached the pitcher pump, soaked the leathers for 15 minutes and commenced to pumping. We generated vacuum just like with the deeper well. Please note that the well sites are within 4' of each other.
Our sea-level elevation is around 550' so this regular pitcher pump should pull water 12' no problem. The suction lets me know its working. Tomorrow I am going to pour water down the new point and see how long it takes to disperse.
I wish we had taken time to call a local driller, I will most likely do that Monday.
Is there anything else I am missing or are any of my assumptions wrong?
We just want to get the toilets flushing and the sink to wash hands in going (we use hand sanitizer after the dirt is removed).
I have spent the last few days perusing the forums here trying to find a person with my problem, a few came close but didn't quite apply.
My father-in-law has owned a cabin by a river for decades (at lease 30 years), it has a driven point well in the slab that runs down 48'. The water is very sulfury so they only take showers and flush the toilet with it. Recently (in the past 2 years) supply to the pump has seemed to drop off, he burnt up two pumps and when they were running, it was much longer than the normal duty cycle we had come to anticipate. He thought that the point on the well had clogged or corroded or deteriorated and decided to drive a new well.
Last Monday, prior to starting any work, we dipped a wrench rope combo into the old 1.25" well pipe and found water at 13' below the top of the pipe. I then attached a pitcher pump, primed it, and commenced pumping until there was so much suction in the pipe the pitcher pump handle would whip up lightening fast if you just let go of it. No water came out. Pulled the pitcher pump and we had drawn the water level up to 6' below the top of the pipe. Our educated guess was, that well produced for decades and now a pitcher pump won't cut it, she must be clogged.
Today we drove a new 1.25" point down to 22'. We would have made it to 23' except we cut 12'' of one of the 10' sticks for another project. The screen was purchased at Big R (local farm supply) and is one of the circle hole ones. Lots of Teflon tape used and we tightened the daylights out of each connection.
At 23' depth on the new installation we now have a water in the pipe 12' below the top of the pipe. I attached the pitcher pump, soaked the leathers for 15 minutes and commenced to pumping. We generated vacuum just like with the deeper well. Please note that the well sites are within 4' of each other.
Our sea-level elevation is around 550' so this regular pitcher pump should pull water 12' no problem. The suction lets me know its working. Tomorrow I am going to pour water down the new point and see how long it takes to disperse.
I wish we had taken time to call a local driller, I will most likely do that Monday.
Is there anything else I am missing or are any of my assumptions wrong?
We just want to get the toilets flushing and the sink to wash hands in going (we use hand sanitizer after the dirt is removed).