Hi all,
I'm looking for some thoughts on our home well situation please. Apologies for the novel/detail
We have a 420 foot drilled well with the pump set at 400 feet. The pump is a Berkeley 7SP4E
Three days ago we ran out of household water. No sediment in the new filter - no smell, no discolored water - the pressure tank just went empty.
Doing the ice cube test (many, many drops) we've definitely recovered some water - three days ago it took 10 seconds for the cube to hit bottom and splash - today we're down to 7 seconds.
The pump kicks in when I manually trigger (and hold on) the low-flow pressure switch (you can hear it hum in the well and at the pressure switch it draws 10A.)
The offset and drop pipe were pressure tested and held 100 psi (so no leaks there) - everything is well below the frost line (northern New England.) Offset enters the house / pressure tank are both located in a warm basement.
Our well guys came out on day one and checked all of this out and said basically "you don't have any water in the well". Their write up estimated the water level was 400' at that point (when the ice cube drop took 10 seconds.) Given the recovery in water levels we've seen since then (and still no water being delivered to the pressure tank) - can you folks think of anything else that could possibly be coming into play here before we call them back to pull the pump?
Thanks very much in advance!
I'm looking for some thoughts on our home well situation please. Apologies for the novel/detail
We have a 420 foot drilled well with the pump set at 400 feet. The pump is a Berkeley 7SP4E
Three days ago we ran out of household water. No sediment in the new filter - no smell, no discolored water - the pressure tank just went empty.
Doing the ice cube test (many, many drops) we've definitely recovered some water - three days ago it took 10 seconds for the cube to hit bottom and splash - today we're down to 7 seconds.
The pump kicks in when I manually trigger (and hold on) the low-flow pressure switch (you can hear it hum in the well and at the pressure switch it draws 10A.)
The offset and drop pipe were pressure tested and held 100 psi (so no leaks there) - everything is well below the frost line (northern New England.) Offset enters the house / pressure tank are both located in a warm basement.
Our well guys came out on day one and checked all of this out and said basically "you don't have any water in the well". Their write up estimated the water level was 400' at that point (when the ice cube drop took 10 seconds.) Given the recovery in water levels we've seen since then (and still no water being delivered to the pressure tank) - can you folks think of anything else that could possibly be coming into play here before we call them back to pull the pump?
Thanks very much in advance!
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