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Well the last iteration lasted 27 years. In 27 more years, I'll be pushing up daisies.

OP here, as I posted in my other thread, pump was pulled and there was an oval hole in the galvanized steel drop pipe, just above the pump. I think this caused the sudden change in water clarity. Mystery solved.

OP here with a hopefully final update. The well pump was pulled today. Turns out the old pump was from 1996, so it had been replaced once. The actual problem was the galvanized drop pipe had an oval hole just above the pump about the size of two pencils side by side. That probably explains the...

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As far as I know it is the original 1986 pump. I think the well guys are required to chlorinate the well, though having just done it, I realize it is not that difficult.

I get it. If I was 10 years younger, poorer and the well didn't have 1" galvanized drop pipe, I might consider it. I might even consider it today it if the drop pipe was flexible poly. I've watched a lot of YouTube videos and I realize it is not that hard.

OP here with an update. I chlorinated the well overnight then pumped it at 5 GPM for 3 1/2 hours to clear the well. The flow rate after all that was not enough to run the sprinklers without dropping down to about 25 PSI. My conclusion is that the well pump inlet was not simply plugged with...

Do you not run water back into the well in a continuous cycle to mix up the chlorine ? It seems like that would help in clearing slime from the pump intake screen.

This is a major question for me. Though I don't seem to have slime in the house, I've heard that when a well's usage is reduced (like no sprinklers for the winter) slime can accumulate on the pump's inlet screen and create a blockage. I can do the well chlorination myself, though I have not yet...

The well has a T at the head and 1" rigid PVC heads into the garage with pressure tank about 50 feet away. The other discharge is to a vacuum breaker, then to 1" PVC that runs all over the property, some zones are 300 feet away. This has worked fine for the 5 years I've lived here. I did not...

I'm starting a new thread about the same well that had suddenly provided brown water. Thankfully the water has cleared but I have a new issue. Currently, I'm getting the sprinkling system ready and now find that the well will not maintain more than 25-ish PSI when any zone is running. For the...

OP here. Well, it is a week on and my water is as clear as it used to be. I don't know for sure if it was sediment in the tank as has been suggested or something to do with the high rainfall in April, but I'm grateful that it is much better. I am aware that it is critical to minimize pump...

OP here. Coincidentally (I hope), my well quit today and I had the pump guy out to fix it. It was a bad capacitor in the control box. I bent his ear about the sediment. His recommendation was to wait a bit and see if it clears itself and if not, it may be a pin hole leak in the drop pipe...

Thanks, good tips. I will let it ride for a while and update when I find out something. If there was a hole in the pipe from well to house, wouldn't it leak down fast when well power is shut off? Also there is no soft water line and when I run the sprinklers, it really moves a lot of water over...