shallow well

  1. S

    New shallow well - no water

    All, Last year I put in a very simple 1 1/4" driven well point coupled to a 1HP pump. It didn't get down far, maybe 13'-15'. It ran two sprinklers fine, three ok, four not great. Overall I was happy with the first attempt. Pump was about 2' from the well head. Pretty large expansion tank...
  2. ApoJake

    Shallow Well - Used to get water, but now I don't

    Hey Experts! I'm having an issue with getting water for my already existing irrigation system. Five years ago, I drove in 20 feet of a 2" galvanized pipe with a 3 foot well point (also 2" dia) for a total well length of 23 feet. I had water all previous years until this year. Had an old 1HP...
  3. C

    Shallow Well Pump Questions

    Hello all, I have a river house that is lifted in the air that has a shallow well pump with a single 1.25" pipe going into the ground. The pump was around 20-25 feet above the water in the well. We recently lifted the house up about 6 or 7 feet higher in the air and found the pump was not...
  4. Urban Sugarmaker

    Sandpoint well has water but I can’t pump it up

    I just installed a new 1-1/4” sand point well. I’m currently at about 20 feet down. It’s all sand to about 19 feet and then it feels like gravel. I can feel it if I turn the pipe with a pipe wrench. I initially drilled a pilot hole with 1” pvc pipe and a water pump. Worked fantastically until I...
  5. Medwar

    Beat the drought! Pumping & filtering a seeping spring

    The drought is upon us here in the west, and I'm finally getting around to tapping a seeping (~ 1 gpm) spring in a seasonal creek on our property. Goal is to pump the water about 30 ft. vertically, and 80 ft. linearly to a ~500 gallon holding tank. Its unclear what our rights are to the water...
  6. wer83

    Sand Point installation question

    Good day all, longtime listener, first time caller. I live in north central Florida and I have been wanting to wash down my own shallow well for some time to use as irrigation (and also in case of emergency during severe weather for toilet flushing, etc.). Anyway, I've read a number of...
  7. tjstyphon

    Need help with shallow well jet pump replacement

    Our old pump is wearing out and won't build enough pressure to shut off, so it needs to be replaced. I would like to get more pressure than we have currently. My husband is deployed, his brother is willing to change the pump but doesn't know enough about them to recommend which one to get...
  8. BrianC73

    Jet Pump Pressure Issue

    I’m having a strange problem with a shallow well pump I recently installed. I also pulled and replaced the driven pipe and point. The pump primes right up to 50 PSI and will hold indefinitely. On the discharge side I have a 1” tee which transitions to a 3/4” PVC line which then is reduced down...
  9. Larry Jones

    Shallow Well help

    I recently hand dug a shallow well to 25 feet. I initially wanted to install just a hand pump to water my garden. It worked great, however our garden has gotten big enough now the hand pump takes way to long to water the garden. The casing on the well is 1 3/4", and I can not find a pump the...
  10. Mindquake

    Shallow Well Jet & CSV Kit Help!

    Great info here. Glad I stumbled on it. Thanks to all!! I’ve got a 2400 gal. water storage tank as my water source. My issue pertains to pumping water from this storage tank up to the pump/pressure tank combo unit at the house 50-ft away. The intake line runs 3” underground, level for 50ft...
  11. gg113

    Jet pump fails to hit pressure cutoff after heavy use : losing my mind

    We bought a house with a driven point well 2 years ago, and have had flawless pressure until two weeks ago. During the use of our standby generator mid power outage, where we had a voltage spike and slight pressure surge at the sink during operation and i went down to make sure the pump was ok...
  12. pjbMit

    Rust buildup in 1.5" shallow well pipe

    I have a shallow well, and went to replace the 3/4 hp jet pump with a new Goulds pump, and replace the back flow valve. I noticed a lot of visible rust caking in the well pipe. What are my options for cleaning this up? I'm assuming that knocking it free is bad, because it would fall back...
  13. Gary Pugh

    Coastal Sand Point

    I live a five hundred feet from the ocean on the coast of MA. I have a sand well point I just installed for irrigation. 1 1/4 point and pipe. 3/4 HP pump and tank. I dug down in my crawl space about two feet and hit the water/sand level. I drove the point down about six feet from there. So the...
  14. Tom Thompson

    Shallow well low volume and CSV valve question

    Hello, First post here. My in-laws have had a shallow well in the same witched stream for about 40 years. it's a low producer, but has worked. We put one in and it worked for 10 years, but then we had problems. We now pounded a new 1 1/4" shallow well about 18 feet down. We can get good...
  15. Theonecloned

    Troubleshooting shallow well problem

    I'm having issues with a shallow well that I drove in last year. I drove 1-1/4 galvanized pipe with a stainless steel drive point. I drove it down with a weighted post driver and as expected the first 10 feet drove relatively easy. At around 12 feet the driving became very difficult. It wasn't...
  16. Theonecloned

    Problem with new shallow well

    Hey guys. I'm hoping a shallow well expert can help me out with an issue with a new well. About 6 months ago I drove a new shallow well for my mother. I think my first mistake was going to the local fleet store to buy the 1-1/4 galvanized pipe. Probably not the highest quality pipe in town...
  17. Mike kostas

    Shallow Well pump for large home.

    Merry Christmas everyone! First time posting a thread anywhere. But I'm finally stumped and even my uncle who is a licensed plumber and educator for Boston gas and father another licensed plumber gas man can't figure this one out. Aprx 4500 SQ ft home with 4 full bathrooms , large jet tub 1st...
  18. Ttown419

    Jet pump won't prime? Or something else?

    Hello all, I am new to the forum and hoping I can enlist someone's help and experience. We moved into our new home and I noticed there is a galvanized 1 1/4 well pipe outside. I dropped a rope down and it came back soaked with clear water (not muddy) probably 12 feet down. I took a chance and...
  19. @Delaware

    Shock / Disinfect Shallow Well

    Hello, I am new to wells and well ownership and my new place has a well which I am trying to learn more about. The well pump is under a manufactured home in Delaware. The well pump is a Pentair STA-RITE FN / FSN Shallow Well Jet Pump. Here's a pic of the setup (I'd fixed some stuff which is...
  20. Eric Walker

    Low Flow From 1 1/4" well aprox. 30 ft deep

    So me and my wife bought a 1100 square foot house built in 1935 because that is what we currently could afford. We bought the house knowing we had a water issue which out inspector told us was due to carbon steel pipes, which have since been removed and replaced with pex. We were still having...
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