Tomshouse,
Welocme to TBN. Several questions:
1. You had/have good water from your 125' deep well - why did you abandon this well? Was it low producing or running dry?
2. What is the flow rate of your old well versus your new well?
3. What region of the country are you? FL and the south (or high water table areas) seem to have 4" wells thru sand where in the Northeast we have 6" wells thru granite..
4. What are your neighbors well depths - do they have good water? At what depth?
5. Do you have enough land to move a well to another area? I think if your neighbors (if in a 500-800' radius of your place) have good water you should be able to get good water too.
*** Carl< Thanks for the reply. The 125 ' well is a 11/4 " gavlnize pipe well. Its been there mostlikely 40 plus years. I think if I install a pump that I know is good I might get water. I ran 125' of 3/4" copper pipe and washed the well out. I got dirty,leaves, and then some grey looking sand. I have a neighbor about 300' plus who has a 4" deep well and his water is good. It is appox 130 deep. I live within 500 to 600 ft from a deep creek. I live in Virginia on the east coast. I am so disappointed on the money spent to get such BAD water. I have looked into a filter system. Among many I found a company called buget water. The reviews look good and I talked to someone from there. Appox $1,000.00 for a system. We had the well put in the month of may of this year. The pump is below ground. My house,drive way,flowers, doors and everything this water has touched has turned rusty red brown looking. There no way to know what kind of water you are going to get, but it looks like I am the only one having this problem. Wells at at 45' to 145' in my small neighbnor hood. I am sorry this is so wordy. Thanks for your replies...Tom