DiamondCarr
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We are constantly running out of water. We have lived here for 71/2 years and the well is 14 years old. It is about 250 to 300ft deep I think. We started occasionally running out of water about 4 years. We replaced the 35 gal flotech tank ( think that was the size) when we discovered it seemed to have a bladder leak with a larger flotech our water issue though has progressively gotten worse especially this year. Last fall we had a pump service come out and drop the pump 20 feet to 180. We just had him back out last week and he replaced the flow tech 1hp with a goulds 1hp pump and new water pipe. He put in new 320psi pipe toreplace the 80psi pipe and a new control box. We had replaced the tank switch a few weeks before and the capacitor too. The tank is a 4 year old flotech 70gal I think and it seems to be keeping pressure at 28lbs. The switch is a 30/50with a manual lever. When we run out of water which is at about 45 gallons at full force (we have a farm and fill water tanks) at greatly reduced rate we can run longer. If we turn all water off and wait 15 min then go turn the switch back on the pressure gauge is 0. the pump turns on at 28 when the switch is activated and turns off at about 40. We must wait for at least 15 to 20 minutes to use the water again. My husband took a shower this evening with no other water running and the water ran out. We do live in the high plains of Colorado but we have had plenty of rain and moisture in our area this year. The wire from the Main breaker to the pump house is lighter than my husband likes and we can no longer run anything of significance off that pumphouse breaker box since about 3 years ago without it throwing the breaker at the main box. before that there was no issue. The wire to the well head is a larger wire and he plans on replacing the lighter wire but it will require quite a bit of fence moving and such even to ditch witch it. Any ideas? Thanks!