sivancic
New Member
Hello and help. Here is my situation and I wonder what my options are.
My home in Belmont,NC has a drilled 6inch round well, unknown how old, with a 23 year old pump, and the pump resides about 100 feet down. The water started showing a lot of sand in the house then there was no pressure and no water. We called a water guy and he raised the pump, replaced a bad pressure valve, removed 5 gallons of sand, put the pump back in and tried to pump and just got sand again. So he moved the pump up 40 feet and still just sand. He indicated that the casing in the sand level was broken and filling the well with sand. He also indicated that my options were to drill a new well at a cost of between 4 and 6 grand, or to see if a neighbor was willing to let us use their well and we pay them for their water. After talking with the neighbor they were too worried about litigation to allow us to share their well it looks like we will need to have a new well drilled. By big problem is that my home and land sit under a new toll road that the state will be building in 2 to 3 years and they will be using eminent domain to purchase my home so I really don't want to invest in a new well when it will only be destroyed in less then 3 years. Do I have any other options????
My home in Belmont,NC has a drilled 6inch round well, unknown how old, with a 23 year old pump, and the pump resides about 100 feet down. The water started showing a lot of sand in the house then there was no pressure and no water. We called a water guy and he raised the pump, replaced a bad pressure valve, removed 5 gallons of sand, put the pump back in and tried to pump and just got sand again. So he moved the pump up 40 feet and still just sand. He indicated that the casing in the sand level was broken and filling the well with sand. He also indicated that my options were to drill a new well at a cost of between 4 and 6 grand, or to see if a neighbor was willing to let us use their well and we pay them for their water. After talking with the neighbor they were too worried about litigation to allow us to share their well it looks like we will need to have a new well drilled. By big problem is that my home and land sit under a new toll road that the state will be building in 2 to 3 years and they will be using eminent domain to purchase my home so I really don't want to invest in a new well when it will only be destroyed in less then 3 years. Do I have any other options????