Posted by jdemaris on March 11, 2008 at 05:54:01 from (67.142.130.17):
In Reply to: O/T new well posted by Roy in georgia on March 10, 2008 at 19:31:09:
I'm curious to hear what you find out. I've worked part-time for several well drillers in New York and Vermont. The ground and aquifier is probably a lot diffferent here then in Georgia. Here, that sort of thing never happens. You drill the hole and only put the 6" casing down to bedrock - usually around 80' down. Then all the rest is bare hole in solid rock until you hit gravel or water-bearing shale. Most wells here are either 150 feet for the best tasting water, or 200-300 feet for the most gallonage and lousy tasting water. The deeper you go, the more iron and iron-bacteria in the water. Regardless of depth - we drill the hole, then pump it out once to clean it, and then sit the pump 30-40 feet from the bottom. In this area, I've never seen one pump dirty after that - except after big rainstorms. Some wells get turbulence after a lot of rain - from where - who knows? Obviously, a 200 foot well with only 80 feet of casing - can have many different veins of water flowing into it. I've also seen a few when the pump shock retraint wasn't put in properly, and the pump would dance around and hit the sides of the well, knocking debris into the water. If the pump is in rock though, this shouldn't happen. I just drilled a 180' well in the Adirondack mountains - and it was crystal clear from the first day, and is artesian - i.e. it comes out the well head on it's own. We stopped using the pump and now let it feed to our cabin by it's own pressure. Put in a pitless adapter 5 feet below ground and water flows all on it's own. I've got to drill a well soon in northern Michigan where the ground seems to be all sand - and the water table is only four-feet down (dig a hole and you get a pond). So, this will be a learning experience for me - since the water-table and ground is completely different. My wife's parents live in the area and their well is 450 feet deep - yet they live on the bank of a river. Their well is also artesian and the water is the worst stuff I've tasted in my life. They've got every type of filter you could dream up along with a water-softener and osmosis.
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