Hi, I am hoping to get some advice from this forum. We have a well that we use the water for the sprinkler system for the gardens and a greenhouse. The tank pressure shows 40 psi, but when we run the sprinkler system, the pressure drops to almost 0 psi after running around 5-20 minutes. The water pressure starts out strong, but then drops suddenly.
We had a company come out and look at the well. Our well is dug 300ft and the pump is located at 250 ft. We were told the water level is 212 ft and it is too low to get good water pressure. They are suggesting we dig the well deeper.
Also, we run a Reverse Osmosis unit from the same well to supply water to the greenhouse. For a couple of months, we had the RO unit running constantly. We just put a float valve on to pull water only when it is needed. They did suggest this could have caused a drop in the pressure, but we are still having the same problem after putting the float valve on.
Does that sound reasonable or should we get a second opinion. I hate to spend the money to dig the well deeper and find out that wasn't the problem. Any advice would be appreciated since I do not know enough about this to know if this makes sense.
Thanks!
We had a company come out and look at the well. Our well is dug 300ft and the pump is located at 250 ft. We were told the water level is 212 ft and it is too low to get good water pressure. They are suggesting we dig the well deeper.
Also, we run a Reverse Osmosis unit from the same well to supply water to the greenhouse. For a couple of months, we had the RO unit running constantly. We just put a float valve on to pull water only when it is needed. They did suggest this could have caused a drop in the pressure, but we are still having the same problem after putting the float valve on.
Does that sound reasonable or should we get a second opinion. I hate to spend the money to dig the well deeper and find out that wasn't the problem. Any advice would be appreciated since I do not know enough about this to know if this makes sense.
Thanks!