Help understanding well...water coming out of top

[bk82388]

Moved into the house last summer, so I do not have a firm understanding about the well itself, not really sure the type or any real info. I noticed at the time that the head(?) of the well is different than any one I have seen before. Anyhow, it works and pressure is good, but I was outside yesterday and there is water pouring out the top through a spout that appears to be an attachment for a garden hose.

Can someone tell me what might be causing this? Is this normal?

Water pressure is good, and is holding steady at the tank.

 

[Reach4]

If you turn off the power to the pump, and wait 20 minutes, does that affect the water coming out?

If water continues to flow, you apparently have an artesian well. I am not sure what you should do about it. It will make things interesting around there in the winter.

 

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[bk82388]

If you turn off the power to the pump, and wait 20 minutes, does that affect the water coming out?

If water continues to flow, you apparently have an artesian well. I am not sure what you should do about it. It will make things interesting around there in the winter.

The pump has been off for 20 mins now and the flow has not slowed at all. We just got through winter and there have been no issues, and since its been on the property for quite a while I assume its been making it through the winters just fine.

Does the water table being so high have an effect on the well? My basement flooded due to all of the melting snow and rain in the last 2 weeks, maybe the rise of the water table increases the pressure?

Any info on artesian wells that I should know?

 

[Valveman]

Yep looks like an artesian flow. Free water. Start a fish pond or something.

 

[SHE-PLMBR]

Definitely an artisian well. Just never seen a set up like that.

 

[Craigpump]

I would advise you to pipe that off to a low area on the property and put stainless steel screens in the pipe to prevent anything from entering that pipe.

 

[Boycedrilling]

I'm not familiar with the well regulations in Massachusetts. In Washington and Oregon, and probably many other states, this would be a violation of water well regulations. We have to be able to contain and control a flowing artesian well. It is considered a wasting of the resource to let an artesian well flow uncontrolled.

I have drilled artesian wells that have had as much as 20 psi at the surface, and others that have flowed as much as 300-400 gallons per minute, before being capped.

 

[Craigpump]

Here in CT there are no regulations that state that artesian wells must be capped. Last year we did one that flows 10 gpm through a second 1.25 pitless, we got a letter from the inland wetlands official stating it was ok to discharge into the wetlands.

 

[bk82388]

Thanks for all the info everyone!