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    Sand will not end

    Two years ago I replaced the drop point in my well which is on my recreational property. It is jet pump system and is 65' deep and has a 2" casing. I did not know what gauge the original point was so we went with a 60 gauge point. We ran the system for hours to clear out the sand and it seemed...
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    Sand in well water

    What they use up here is a 3' drop point. Looks like a point you would drive without the large tip. The tip is flush to the case of the point. The 1-1/4" coupling on the end on the point stops inside the drive shoe. You need to pull that up the casing when you change it out and drop the new one...
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    Sand in well water

    I was wrong with the foot valve. I meant to say drive shoe. The Bremer valve is what we used. It also has a check in it. So if I have this right on the end of the 2" casing there is a drive shoe that the drop point seats into and the screened point sticks out into the sand and gravel bed...
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    Sand in well water

    The guy that helped me has done quit a few wells so I believe that he has done this before. He had a tool called a carrot which works like an easy out. That is attached to the end of a length of 3/4" rigid pipe. We drop that down and add lengths of pipe until we got to what you called the Bremer...
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    Sand in well water

    I recently bought some land with an existing well. It has a 2" well casing and a 1" drop pipe with a jet pump. Total depth is 55' with the drop pipe down 40'. It had sat unused for about six years and I'm not sure how old the well is. I replaced the pump and drop point and the ejector two years...
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