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Because a 120 foot deep well costs $9,000 here and dropping four points will be $1600 when I reuse my good suction lines, pump, and tank. I wish I had your faith in well drillers but I don't and that's why I posted here to find out the purpose of drawdown tubes in a shallow well.

Hello All: West central FL, here. I'm in the process of vetting shallow well drillers to sink four new 10 foot points on 20 feet of pipe through water table at 13 feet and hardpan at 20 feet. Most of the drillers are confident of finding plenty of water on the other side of the hardpan. The...

Thank you for the suggestion, Reach4. I think I've already found my leak though with air pressure and bubble leak detector. Fixing it tomorrow and hoping for the best. Mike

I hadn't thought of testing the pump on a bucket of water, so thank you for that suggestion, Valveman. I have, since my original post definitely isolated the leak to an ell in my stem wall and under a slab that'll be messy to get to but could be worse and will be fixing that tomorrow and then if...

I have a relatively new shallow well in the Tampa Bay area with four 4 ft long 1-1/4" plastic points about 20 feet in the ground. I have water at 13 ft and I'm using a 2 horse Red Lyon irrigation pump and a 20-gal pressure tank. It has been working okay for about a year until about a month ago...

Thanks asktom. Would something like this work? Am I correct that it appears that the toilets vent on the shower and tub drains? Mike

I'm planning a rebuild of a two story slab on grade duplex in Saint Petersburg FL with (almost) the same fixture layouts on both floors and need help designing/understanding the DWV system with wet vents. I've read elsewhere that I can put just two fixtures on a wet vent and need to upsize one...