So on my farm my water well is flowing about 30 gallons/ min. So in winter we have to keep the pump house heated to prevent the casing from cracking as well as prevent ice from breaking the down hole pump wires which come through the top cap.
Now I am moving in a new house on an adjacent property as I just subdivided my quarter and here are my questions.
I already have a water well drilled and it is artesian as well about 15 gallons / min. but quite far from where the house will sit. Currently the well leaks up around the outside of the casing. Not hard but it keeps the ground saturated. The water well driller came by and put 3 bags of bentonite around the casing poking it down with a stick and said that May work. It didn't. So question one. Has anyone had this problem and what did it cost to fix. The well is 100 feet deep.
Question two. Because the well is about 200m from the house do you think the cost of running power and water lines that far would be so great that I should just drill a different well close to the house. I do know a cased well will cost me 3800 dollars.
I should state that the current leaking well did not cost me anything. The gov. Drilled it 2 years ago to monitor something. I have the option to take it and assume all liability. That's why question 1.
Question 3. The driller / owner also said that if it were his well he would not run a pitiless adapter because it's artesian. Instead he suggested building an 8x8 pump house and running a surface jet pump that way there r no wires running to bottom. I think he said this possibly because he don't wanna drill into flowing casing in winter. Maybe not. Anyway I put a lot down. So I will stop.
Thanks and if anyone can offer advise or works on a water well rig and has some time to have a call on the phone I sure would appreciate it. Just pm me
I would wonder what the gov was monitoring ?? This kind of throws a red flag up for me. I would get a lab test on the well before assuming it. If that all checks out, you know what the well produces, that's a good thing. Then you just have to do the math weather to go for it or not. If you drill a new well you never know what it may or may not produce.
Make sure you test for bacteria from the well, obviously not from around the casing but inside the casing. Do you know how deep surface pipe is set? And how far down your liner starts?
If the water is good, I would think you want a pitless adapter. Why bring water to the surface to pump under ground over to your house. Well house that needs heat cost a lot more than running a pump a 100 ft to bottom.
I have an 25 ga/min 125 feet deep artesian weII on my pIace as weII.
The weII is over a 1/4 miIe from the cistern/pump house.
I run a 1 1/4" poIy hose that is connected to a T on top of the weII and runs underground to a fIoat vaIve (with overfIow) in the cistern, from there the water is pumped to the various Iocations.The water runs free fIow to the cistern year round...there is no pump in the weII.
The weII head and T is out in the open without cover and it feeds a 5000 gaIIon water trough 2-300 feet away in one of my pastures as weII.
The weII runs continousIy and has never froze in the coIdest weather yet.
My weII aIso Ieaks some outside the casing(pIastic one) and i have been toId there is nothing one can do to stop it short of dumping bentonite or concrete down the casing in the hope to seaI it off compIeteIy and driIIing a new weII.
I have not found a weII driIIer yet who is wiIIing to undertake fixing or seaIing my weII and driIIing a new one.
I guess they are scared and i can't bIame them for it.
Bison, so the cistern is buried closer to your home ?And you still have to have a heated pump house?
Yes to both questions.
I buiId the cistern with the pump house on top as there was a water distribution manifoId Iocated in that spot, every water point was provided free fIow at some point in the past but it was bothersome so i went with a pressurized system.
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