Here's my situation: I bought a 55 year old house in mid-west South Carolina 2 years ago. Currently water is supplied from a rural water system. However, originally water was supplied from a 2" well (at least that is the pipe sticking out of the ground a few inches). About two feet down the pipe is reduced to 1 1/2". I cleaned out the debris, and have dropped a plumb-bob down. It went down about 150' before stopping. The string was wet about 40' above the plumb-bob when I pulled it out. To save water bill money, I would like to use this well if possible for irrigation purposes. Is this doable? I am supposing a jet-type pump would be required. Thanks for any input/suggestions.
Revitalize 2" well
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Post some pictures. I think you may have 2" casing and 1.5" pipe inside of that?
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Yes, that's it....
To get that going again, you would need a casing adapter to connect two pipes between the pump and the coaxial piping arrangement.
https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/what-is-this-part.60756/
EDIT: After looking at the pictures, I am not sure what is going on. I was thinking there could have been a pitless adapter down there, but in that case, you could not have passed a plumb bob.
Could the casing adapter have been removed, and the inside pipe went down? If so, bringing that up could be difficult, because some gasketing called leathers could add a lot of friction.
So search terms I would start with are "deep well" jet pump packer "leathers"
https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/what-is-this-part.60756/
EDIT: After looking at the pictures, I am not sure what is going on. I was thinking there could have been a pitless adapter down there, but in that case, you could not have passed a plumb bob.
Could the casing adapter have been removed, and the inside pipe went down? If so, bringing that up could be difficult, because some gasketing called leathers could add a lot of friction.
So search terms I would start with are "deep well" jet pump packer "leathers"
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Like Reach says, probably a packer down there. If you can get a hold on the 1.5" pipe you can pull the leathers loose and get the inner pipe and packer out.
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