We plan to drill a new one this summer. Ours is just fine, producing well, but we have lived here since 1991 and only had a few things done to it. A new tank with a bladder as the old was leaking and this one I don't have to bleed like the others that got waterlogged. Also couple of things to the motor.
It's an above ground pump, so they are saying its likely 200 to 250 deep only, we don't have a clue, no information on it. And since people had lived here before and the house was built in the 70's, likely the well is that old.
Our water is wonderful, we are about a 1/2 mile from the San Jacinto river so I'm sure we have easy access to water. This is rural and still a lot of woods so I don't worry about contamination. We have galvanized pipe and hubby was planning on replacing it. I had some shower work done and he was really worried about cutting into the pipe, but its clean as a whistle, what a surprise. We have calcium in the water, that's about it, nothing else. That may be why my bone density is so good at age 64.
But anyway we are drilling a new well this summer. I will use it for my garden and lawn until needed. Our reason Texas or this area is getting big on using surface water because of subsidence, we are afraid if we wait to much longer we will get into big time regulations. So that is one of our goals this summer, new well drilled. We certainly cannot complain as we have done work on a septic field twice, hubby did it once himself and little on this well, really cheap living here. I don't know how people in the cities afford all the bills they have, I think it helps keep them just spending and spending.
