Re: Wells in northern states

Posted by Brian G. NY on February 21, 2015 at 13:48:52 from (96.43.74.180):

In Reply to: Wells in northern states posted by Chris Jones on February 21, 2015 at 10:42:42:

When I was a kid, farms were supplied with water by two methods.
1.A dug well usually no more than 30 feet deep laid up with flat stones leaving an inside diameter just large enuf for a man or boy (not too fat) to go down with a ladder to clean it out. We have a lot of them in this area and all the ones I have seen are laid up very nicely.
There is a large 5 to 6 ft square flat stone at the top with a nicely cut round hole in the center.
Over the hole some type of hand pump was situated. The one on our family farm had a "chain and log" type pump with a crank. We used this until about 1951 when I was ten at which time we dug a 5' deep ditch to the house and installed a shallow well pump.
2. A spring on the side of a hill piped down into the house and/or barn. Sometimes the pipe was buried in a shallow ditch in which case the water had to flow continually, usually into a watering trough.
I bought an old farmhouse in the 60s which had a spring about a quarter mile away in the middle of a field up the hill with a 5 ft deep ditch leading from it. This was the best water system I've ever used as there was a steady 50 PSI or so pressure at all times. Mind you, this ditch was dug by men with picks and shovels.
For the past 75 years or so all the wells in this area are drilled using 8" casing down to water producing rock or shale and use 5 ft deep pitless adaptors like the ones Hank posted pics of.
My former home had a 250 ft well which was cased the entire length but produced over 25 gpm over the top; an artesian well.
The well at my current home is 200 ft. deep but is cased only to 40 ft. It produces about 4 gpm and the water's static height is about 35' from the top. I've heard that some banks won't give a mortgage unless the well produces at least 5 gpm. The question never came up when I applied for my mortgage.
Apparently 4 gpm with that kind of reservoir is sufficient as, in addition to my wife and I, my son, his wife and three teenage daughters lived with us for a month while his modular home was being set up at his place. I think most people know how much water a teenage girl uses to shower! LOL

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