Hello, I have been on here in the past with great advice, since then our well situation has changed. We have owned our place for about 2 years. Just prior to moving in the well pump was replaced(I don't know why but my guess is that it stopped working from pumping so much sediment). Since we moved in that new pump has always been loud. I remodeled the house completely and the noise is not coming from loose pipes( I secured everything while the walls were torn apart). I beleive this pump is getting worn from pumping a lot of sediment as well. We pump a very fine gray silt that looks a lot like clay, if I pump about 300 gallons to fill our hot tub the sediment will cover almost the entire bottom of the tub. We get sediment in our toilet tanks, washer, dishwasher, the tub will get quite a bit etc. I know this is not normal so I started looking into possible problems. Recently I finally got a hold of the original well logs for this 31 year old well. The originall well was about 160ft deep with 10ft of screen at the bottom but never going through bedrock and ending at a layer of sand. About 6 months after the first drilling there is a second well log that deepened the well to 240ft and pulled the original screen and cased the well all the way to the bottom. No screen, no perforations and no gravel pack. I am assuming this means the water is coming into the casing through the absolute bottom of the well. The final log is for clay from about 170ft to the bottom. My question is whether this is normal or should this well have been driven further until leaving the clay layer and finding clean water or should perforations or screen have been used regardless of the high amount of clay(the log states that no screen was used due to too much clay). We need to fix this sitution but I want to have as much info as possible in order to discuss my options with drillers. The original driller is still in business and we actually had them out for a pump wiring problem that they caused when installing the last pump but I have no confidence in them based on that experience and now I am wondering if they knew what they were doing when the well was actually drilled.
Any advice would be helpful as well as any referrals for the Seattle WA area for a reputable driller.
Thanks
Any advice would be helpful as well as any referrals for the Seattle WA area for a reputable driller.
Thanks