Bought new home. Is this a well?

[Rocketgremlin]

I'm a city person but moved into a house in a small NJ township. The home has city water and city sewer but when I was moving some irrigation lines I uncovered this lid. Either the realtor or the home inspector told me that the home is city water, but the irrigation system was supplied by a well. The hole is 30" across and about 8 & 1/2 ft deep and dry with no pipes running into it anywhere. Didn't smell like sewer. Dry with some stones and sand at bottom. Is this a well or a septic tank or something else? Home built in 1970. I I've also included as a picture of what I think is a well pump in my crawl space.

 

[Greenmonster123]

The hole looks like a cesspool of some kind. The other looks like your shallow well pump

 

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[Smooky]

It might be an old bored well that was filled in with gravel or it might be a dry well:
http://www.aconcordcarpenter.com/installing-a-dry-well.html

 

[Craigpump]

It might be an old bored well that was filled in with gravel or it might be a dry well:
http://www.aconcordcarpenter.com/installing-a-dry-well.html

It isn't filled in enough. It should be filled right to grade with sand or crushed stone. I would've made the seller do it prior to closing.

 

[Valveman]

Follow that white pipe coming out of the pump. See if it goes to a shallow well somewhere or to that underground tank.

 

[Bgard]

unless there is another pipe coming out the side of that pump it looks like there is not a discharge/outlet pipe connected to it, the pipe should connect to the tank and line going out to system.

 

[Rocketgremlin]

It isn't filled in enough. It should be filled right to grade with sand or crushed stone. I would've made the seller do it prior to closing.

I agree. I would have liked to have known it was there when I purchased the home, but it's been a year now. This summer I was leveling for an above ground pool and didn't want the sprinkler system to spray the pool and equipment. When I was leveling and digging to relocate 2 of the heads, I dug down and hit the lid....so I hosed it off and took a few pics. I would like to get it filled though.

 

[Rocketgremlin]

The well pump is in the crawlspace in the "addition" that was built in around 1987....which is actually the master bedroom now. From what I can see, the white pipe is heading towards the front of the house. Next, I'll have the wife activate the sprinkler and see if that pump motor runs or not.
I assume there is a way of getting old zoning or survey records from the township? It's not that I mind if the stuff is there, but I'd like to know what holes and caverns are under my feet.

 

[Valveman]

The pump is not going to work. Like bgard said, there is not pipe connected to the discharge of the pump.