We are back in business. This well guy was exceptional and fixed me up good. He first sent a camera down the well. With the camera at 125 ft the water was cloudy and camera not useful. I asked him if we could run the well down and he said give it a try. The pump ran solid for 40 mins and we emptied the well. During that 40 mins, the water quality improved greatly and the camera revealed a stone along side the pump and rock sediment all the way up past the inlet of the pump. He tugged on the pump with his hoist wench, up and down but it was stuck. As he was thinking what to do, the pump just popped loose. We looked at each other thinking the poly broke but indeed the pump was loose. Poly was stretched and still pulling. Since he had the pump loose and water level low in borehole, he used the camera to inspect the borehole from top to bottom. We learned that the pump was originally set 7’ off the bottom which typically would have been fine but none the less my well dumped lots of rock sediment and filled up the bottom of the well.
The camera also revealed a large sized collapse at 115 ft and no water entering the well above it. At the 145 ft we had a gusher water supply shooting straight across the borehole, good water production. Pretty clean borehole the rest of the way. One small water supply at 128’, probably the .5 gpm the well driller stated. I think there was onother spot in the 170’s that was producing a small supply shooting out.
He did try to clear out the check valve by installing a ball valve onto a contraption his dad made many years ago which was a female end of a pitlesssadapter that connected onto the end of the poly (male end of the pitless) with a ball valve after that. He powered up the pump and worked that valve numerous time but no success. He was hoping that the sudden shock of the closing of the valve may dislodge the sediment. He stated that he has had very good success dislodging checkvalves this way. He than proceeded to pull up the pump and when we had 210 ft out of the hole he installed a new check valve and a 5 gpm flow control. He wanted this flow control to allow the pump to run longer but more gentle as to not stir or suck up junk. After that he lower the pump back to within 30’ of the bottom, cut off 25’ of poly and dropped it back onto the pitless adapter. He also threw 3 chlorine tablets in since we may have introduced bacteria into the water supply.
Next he fired up the pump and checked oporation and we held pressure just fine.
This guy commented that it may have been possible that the well driller could have felt this fracture during drilling and could have cemented it up and drilled it out the next day, possibly but not certain. He had nothing bad to say about the original well driller.
https://larsonwells.com/
Larson well drilling really impressed me and I am very happy at what he did and the price. $600 was exceptional. He got to my place at 8:30 after driving 1 hr to get here. Could not get up my 200 ft driveway which is on a hill. The snow matting was coming loose under his tires and he had no traction so he nevev even got to my well location till 10 am. He left at 1:30. He did indicate that more sediment can come loose. In fact, lowering the camera and pump down the well did send material to the bottom, maybe that was good?
My water is already exceptional and if the borehole doesn’t let loose some more I think I’m gonna have a nice well. Oh yea, he thought that since we tried to clean out the check valve while running the pump after we had it off the bottom, we probably cleaned out the pump inlet that had lots of sediment in it. I was concerned about the pump but he said it would likely be cleaned out fairly well will that much water running past the check valve when he was trying to clear it out. First thing I asked him when he arrived was if he wanted me out of the way and not try an help but he said no, I could use a hand and he wanted me to see the camera working. Very nice guy this Curt Larson is. Immaculate truck and equipment, very decisive and fast at what he does. I could not have asked for a better experience.
Also, thanks to all you guys here who helped to educate me on all this, so much appreciated. So many good people in this world who help each other.
The camera also revealed a large sized collapse at 115 ft and no water entering the well above it. At the 145 ft we had a gusher water supply shooting straight across the borehole, good water production. Pretty clean borehole the rest of the way. One small water supply at 128’, probably the .5 gpm the well driller stated. I think there was onother spot in the 170’s that was producing a small supply shooting out.
He did try to clear out the check valve by installing a ball valve onto a contraption his dad made many years ago which was a female end of a pitlesssadapter that connected onto the end of the poly (male end of the pitless) with a ball valve after that. He powered up the pump and worked that valve numerous time but no success. He was hoping that the sudden shock of the closing of the valve may dislodge the sediment. He stated that he has had very good success dislodging checkvalves this way. He than proceeded to pull up the pump and when we had 210 ft out of the hole he installed a new check valve and a 5 gpm flow control. He wanted this flow control to allow the pump to run longer but more gentle as to not stir or suck up junk. After that he lower the pump back to within 30’ of the bottom, cut off 25’ of poly and dropped it back onto the pitless adapter. He also threw 3 chlorine tablets in since we may have introduced bacteria into the water supply.
Next he fired up the pump and checked oporation and we held pressure just fine.
This guy commented that it may have been possible that the well driller could have felt this fracture during drilling and could have cemented it up and drilled it out the next day, possibly but not certain. He had nothing bad to say about the original well driller.
https://larsonwells.com/
Larson well drilling really impressed me and I am very happy at what he did and the price. $600 was exceptional. He got to my place at 8:30 after driving 1 hr to get here. Could not get up my 200 ft driveway which is on a hill. The snow matting was coming loose under his tires and he had no traction so he nevev even got to my well location till 10 am. He left at 1:30. He did indicate that more sediment can come loose. In fact, lowering the camera and pump down the well did send material to the bottom, maybe that was good?
My water is already exceptional and if the borehole doesn’t let loose some more I think I’m gonna have a nice well. Oh yea, he thought that since we tried to clean out the check valve while running the pump after we had it off the bottom, we probably cleaned out the pump inlet that had lots of sediment in it. I was concerned about the pump but he said it would likely be cleaned out fairly well will that much water running past the check valve when he was trying to clear it out. First thing I asked him when he arrived was if he wanted me out of the way and not try an help but he said no, I could use a hand and he wanted me to see the camera working. Very nice guy this Curt Larson is. Immaculate truck and equipment, very decisive and fast at what he does. I could not have asked for a better experience.
Also, thanks to all you guys here who helped to educate me on all this, so much appreciated. So many good people in this world who help each other.
