Jerry Joyce
New Member
We dug our well (229 ft) in Mid July. Bore Drilled. We installed a pump teck pump and pumped it clean. Just before we put it to the house it went silty and cloudy (just as a low front was moving in). We pumped it clean again and then hooked it up. prior to a rain as the low approached the well went silty and cloudy again. Kinetco wants to put a $2200 system in and Servi-Soft tried an inline filter and re-bed of my backwash filter. It clogged the 5 micron filter in 1 day. Pumped it twice yesterday and it went clean, then I hooked it up, bypassed the filters and flushed the house. Then I put the cartridge filter on (by passing the backwash one b/c it is clogged - reduced pressure a tone). By last evening it was crystal clear, drinkable, good tasting and great. I ran it all day. Turned it off at night. Morning came and it was great! Clear enough to shower and drink (BTW no bacteria - it passed that test). I did not leave it on today, got home this afternoon and it was gray and cloudy again. Currently pumping it to try and clear it back up. I thought that once a well cleared up it stayed clear? Do they often go from clear to silty to cloudy to clear to silty to cloudy? This is the 3rd time it has gone south (maybe 4th). The driller keeps telling me to pump it but I can't leave water on all day every day? I can't contentiously pump. To his credit he offered to dig a new one at no cost, but trenching and other costs will of course occur. Not sure what to do. Is the casing maybe cracked? Is there a crack somewhere else allowing silt in? Does the level of a well really rise when a low comes in? Is it a bad well? Will pumping it more stabilize it? Do I pay to simply have it filtered with the infusion tanks instead of drilling a new well?