Any Water Well Drillers our there?

[pa_of_6]

Ok, so I’m redoing an old well and am wondering if I can air lift it to clean it out.

It is a 4 inch well and had an old Jensen pump-jack on it.

I would like to convert it to a submersible pump because the old working barrel had worked itself into retirement.

But... I know there is silt in the well. It it about 200 feet deep with about 25 feet of silt in it.

Now the question... can I air lift it and get the silt blown out.

I would then like to put in pea gravel and chips to act as a filter before I install the submersible.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.


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[Trochu]

Not a water well driller, work with a geotechnical driller, and it depends on how big your compressor is of course, but I don't think a typical trailer compressor will blow it that far.

[MountainTi]

I've blown out 300' holes with a 375 cfm screw before. A foaming agent would help a lot.
But call a water well guy, be your best bet.

[Willard]

Not actively in the trade anymore but I have done this on old 4” wells. Give it a go with some 1” drop hose with a 6-8 foot section of 1” pipe hose barbed to the bottom of the hose with a trailered air compressor supplying the air. All that could go wrong on a old well like that is you discover it doesn’t clean up after 2-3 hours of blowing the well which indicates either a hole in screens or casing . And this could have happened after paying a company to do this for you.if it all works out look at puttting a slimmer pump in than the common 4” pumps as it will sit tight to the wall in that casing and has potential of getting stuck.Good luck

[Flatlandliver]

Where are you located?
You need someone with a rotary/air drill in your area.
They can run the pipe down without a bit and blow it out for you.

[pa_of_6]

Sure they can...
But at what cost??
Well drillers aint cheap


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