New Well at 1.5 gal per min.

[stumpfield]

My well was drilled just a few months ago with only 2gpm. 245' deep. The pump is set at 235'. The initial static water level was at 20' but now it has dropped to 75'. My driller didn't want to go any deeper afraid we might loose the well. He was right about that. Saved me a few bucks. I got about 1000 gal per day with a solar pump.

 

[hockeypuck]

I had a well drilled to 505 feet and i was only getting 10 gallons an hour! Ouch. the static would not come up to more than 150 feet. Driller hydro fracked and I now have 8 plus gallons a minute and the static is at 10 feet. If you are getting 1.5 gpm, I would set the pump at 500 and use the well as reservoir. If that does not work for you, you can always frack latter. fyi I believe you have 1.5 gallons of storage per foot of 6" well.

Puck

 

[hunterridgefarm]

My well is 360 ft deep. Static water level is within 20 ft of the top of the well and pump is just off the bottom. That gives about 500 gallons in the 6" hole. Recovery rate is just about what yours is at 1.5 gpm. In over 30 years, with a family of 5 we have never run out of water, and thats doing plenty of laundry and taking plenty of showers, etc.

If your static level is near the top of the well then you should have 800-900 gallons in the hole. More than enough to not worry about. Relax.

Thanks Mad, I am a little more relaxed now. The water level is near the top and the pump will be set close to the bottom. He got the 2000 gallon figure from the recovery time.


Jim Brown,

I am thinking about a storage tank but will wait and see. The cost is $9.00 per foot for the drilled well. I am still not sure what the cost for a boost pump for county water would cost. I am 400-500' off the road and on top of a ridge the is flat over a couple acers.

RayH

Too late for the Hydrofract the well was capped and they were gone when I got out there this afternoon.

Joel4330,
I just don't like county water. I have always had well water, like the taste and how clean it makes me feel in the shower . And as I said before I don't know how much a booster pump for the county water would cost. And before I went that route I wanted to try the well since the driller said I should have no problem finding water.


RobJ,

He said I would have plenty of water to wash cars, water a small garden, wash clothes, etc. Just don't leave the water running all night and don't try to use it with the green houses.


Thanks to all for the replys my blood pressure has now dropped to normal. It was just the fact that 1.5 gallons per min did not sound like a lot of water. But I feel better now...I think I'll go wash the tractor, cars,soak in the tub and then take a shower

 

[turnkey4099]

Show off your sitting on a underground lake!

Same here. Well 65', 20gpm, static level 10ft from top. Yes I, and most of my neighbors, are sitting on on top of a lake - a big aquifer.

Harry K

 

[turnkey4099]

I am thinking about a storage tank but will wait and see. The cost is $9.00 per foot for the drilled well. I am still not sure what the cost for a boost pump for county water would cost. I am 400-500' off the road and on top of a ridge the is flat over a couple acers.

RayH

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Pressure tank, pump, pipe, wire should come in well under $1000. Under $500 if you weren't having to string so much pipe/wire. My original source was a community well 1/4 mile away and other than having a 3 hp pump the installation was nothing special. I drilled my own well 10 years later to get away from being an unpaid well maintenance man and the arguments about who was using too much water.

Talk to your pump dealer for needed pump/motor sizes when you do go that route. He will need the elevation difference and your projected "gallonage" use to size the pump properly.

Harry K

 

[InlineDieselFan]

Hunterridgefarms,

I would think the same along the lines of Madreferee, you should have plenty of water stored up inside of the casing. If you happen to run out of water that is when I would then put in a storage tank. Certainly in the meantime figure out everything that you need now so if you do run out of water you can just go get it done.

I guess living in the wet enviroment pays off, the well was drilled in July during a long dry spell and we got 42 or 45 gallons per minute.

steve

 

[Ronbo]

I live 12 miles from the gulf of Mexico. I have three wells. One 65ft, one 75 ft. and one 456 ft. The two shallow wells are hard water, full of iron and sulfer. I received a HUD grant. Told them if I could not get a new well, I did not want anything. Got the bids. 5900 down to 475 ft. They stopped at 456. 50 gpm. Soft water, pump at 120. Love the taste and the feel.

Ron

 

[tommu56]

you could add plastic systern to your well thats what i'm planing to do.
my well is 0.5 gpm at 450 ft but i dont trust well driller and thats an whole nother story i was looking at 1200 or 1500 gallon ones from norsweco
solar pump to tank pumping when sun is up and 24v pump to cabin from tank as needed

tommu56

 

[SteelDust]

Hunterridgefarms,

I would think the same along the lines of Madreferee, you should have plenty of water stored up inside of the casing. If you happen to run out of water that is when I would then put in a storage tank. Certainly in the meantime figure out everything that you need now so if you do run out of water you can just go get it done.

I guess living in the wet enviroment pays off, the well was drilled in July during a long dry spell and we got 42 or 45 gallons per minute.

steve

Adna WA, huh???

Hey neighbor.... Adna here as well.


Wet environment plays no part in well yields, it's a function of geology, not climate. I'm living proof of that. I'm at 80 feet and 3 GPM. The property behind me drilled to 375 feet and yielded 0.75 GPM, their water came in the top 100' also. I could have drilled deeper, for storage volume, but in doing the calculations the tank was cheaper to install than digging at $26/foot. Plus, it gives me the ability to access that water without any electric power (bucket on a rope). It also gives the Fire department a place to drop a suction if need be.

I installed a 1500 gallon storage tank, with a float switch cutoff at about 250 gallons remaining in the tank. This purpose of this was to avoid floating the tank in ground water should I run it empty (poly tank). I water 4 horses, am able to water lawns, and do normal daily activities without fear of running out of water. (Unless I forget and leave it running....hahaha).

Another side benefit of the storage tank is your ability to aerate it. I have the discharge to the tanks plumbed above the water level, this allows for the incoming water to break the surface tension and cause aeration. Should you still have unacceptable iron levels they can be further reduced by putting a pond aerator (on a timer) in the tank and then mechanically filtering out the now oxidized iron particles.

 

[CurlyDave]

Let me give you a different way of looking at this.

When we put in our septic field, I deliberately made it as large as possible. Given our soil, the county would only lets us go to one sized for a 4 BR house, but it rated at 450 gallons per day.

Now that works out to 0.31 gpm.

Unless you intend to irrigate, 1.5 gpm is a lot of water. Sure, you and I both would like to have 40 or 50 gpm, but Santa didn't bring that. What he did bring is 5 times as much water as you really need.