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What does that mean? Hey....Wetboots?

I don't have a check valve. I just have the pitcher pump hooked directly up to the pipe to determine if I can get any water out of my pipe. The water is about six inches from the top of the pipe now, which is still a couple of feet above ground level. Does it sound like it is a clay problem...

So, even though a couple of hours later, the water is still at the top of the pipe, I don't have enough water in there? My thought was that maybe I am in clay in the sand point, and so it just can't pull it up.

I just bought a Pitcher Pump to test my sandpoint. There are not any instructions that came witht the pump. How do you start using the thing? I hooked it up to the well, and started pumping. Nothing really happened. I then poured water in the top of the pump and started pumping. I then...

I had been checking for water with string and weight, with no luck. When you say pull back, you mean out of the clay though right? I can not just try to pull it up a little bit but leave it in the clay, right?

What do you mean? Pull the well pipe up a little bit? (How far is a little bit?) Hook up a pump and see if I get any water?

Ok, Well I am convinced that it is clay. The water is still sitting in the well pipe, and I have pounded it down through the clay about 2 1/2 feet. How thick can this clay layer be???? This is really starting to suck!

If it is clay or hardpan, what is the likelyhood of pounding through it?

Let me ask you this. Would 2" of hardpan, or clay for that matter really stop all the water from going down the well pipe? It seems that with a 3' sand point, that if I had just gotten into the hardpan or clay, that there would still be 2.5' of sandpoint to drain out the water in the well...

Ok, it has been suggested that I may have hit hardpan with my well. I am driving a 1 1/4" sandpoint using a post driver. I am currently about 17' down, and I have run into something hard, and when I try to put water down the pipe now, it doesn't go anywhere, just sits in the pipe. Question...

Post ReplyShallow Well Problem (SandPoint) Posted by chadfetter on August 8th, 2007 10:38 AM | Watch this Topic I am trying to drive in my own Shallow Well using a sand point. I currently have 17' of 1 1/4" pipe down plus the 3' point. Periodically, I have been running water down the pipe to...