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This is what I’m working with. Developing a 150acres to build on eventually. Historically very good water in the area. Practically no contamination from agriculture/industrial etc. Many neighbours have used very shallow (10-15’) dug well for decades. There is a commercial spring water company...

The first column was the first test I did almost immediately after installing the well. 20ft is the total depth. Static water level is 5.25’, but it produces 2700gal during 3 hours of continuous pumping. The first test shows mostly higher levels as I had only pumped it out a couple times. The...

I’ve got a newly constructed 20 foot dug well. I’d like to think I built it right with two loads of washed, crushed rock around the bottom two tiles. I’ve fully tested the water twice, a month between each test. I shocked it between testing which took care of the coliform and e-coli issue. The...

I recently built a flow sleeve for my 1hp submersible pump that I’ll be using in my shallow well. This forum helped immensely, but I noticed a lot of folks had requests for more pictures. I opted to use a 5” sewer pipe and mated that with a 6” well seal. A 5” well seal would have been ideal...