Posted by jdemaris on October 19, 2014 at 06:15:59 from (70.194.2.81):
My in-laws would like us to take over their house in northern Michigan. They've moved to a condo in the city of Alpena and the house sits on edge of the Alpena township on the bank of the Thunder Bay River. We live 40 miles away in a more rural area.
Their house is only 15 years old and very expensive to live in (even though it is super-insulated with structured foam panels) So I'm experimenting with a few things trying to see if it can be made cheaper to live in. Main two things now are water and heat. The house is super-insulated but still a pig to heat with propane. I'm installing two wood burners down the basement (wood stove and wood furnace). Main thing I'm dealing at the moment is the water. Even though this house is on the bank of a large river and I can hit water if I dig a two-foot deep hole, their drilled well is 780 feet deep! The water is awful and needs a lot of treatment that cost $60-$70 a month. I just dug a 8' deep well in the backyard and the water tests MUCH better. Now I'm trying to figure how to make it permanent. Can't find anyone that sells concrete well tiles around here. Largest culvert pipe I can find locally is galvanized steel and 36" diameter. $400 for a 10 foot piece. I'm thinking of using that, stuck in the well vertically and then attach a pitless adapter to the side. I'm wondering if I want to use a submerged pump IN the well - how to support it? Well pumps like this are usually somewhat supported by round well casings and rubber torque arrestors. Not sure how to support such a pump inside a 3 foot wide culvert pipe. And yes, I could just put a jet pump in the house. I'd prefer the pump in the well though if I can find a good way to do it. More efficient.
The drilled well tests: Total dissolved solids - 1400 parts per million. Hardness - 100 grains per gallon. Iron - 5 parts per million.
The water from the hole I dug with my backhoe tests: Total dissolved solids - 940 parts per million. Hardness - 44 grains per gallon. Iron - 0.3 parts per million.
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