Plenty of water in the well

[deere755]

We have an old well we use fro watering our garden trees etc. on our place. It is not used for our home we have rural water for that. Most of the time if we do alot of watering we pump it dry. Thursday night I saw something I have never seen before in my life. Water was bubbling up through the top and flooding the yard. It had a lot of rain Thursday as well as all spring but I have never seen a well do that.

 

[RonMar]

Are you on sloping ground? It could be that the water table above you has raised and that is pushing water up your well artesian style as that is the path of least resistance.

 

[Bird]

My grandparents (and later my parents) had a well at one end of their vegetable garden which did the same thing occasionally. That was in Ardmore, OK. In fact, nearly every Spring, they pumped water out to the street just to lower the water table.

 

[JB4310]

I saw something similar just yesterday, the last farm in our suburban town has about 50 acres of slopeing pasture where the run off ponds up at the bottom and then goes under the road thru a culvert, It's not just run off I guess because the old timers tell me they would draw water for drinking from a spring fed well there, it's just a concrete pipe the goes straight down x # of feet.
I saw yesterday the the water was pushing up out of the cistern (if that's the right word) which stands about a foot higher than the surrounding water.
Seemed odd, I guess it's coming from the head pressure from the hill, coming under ground and pushing the water up over the static level of the surface water, appears to break the law of gravity, but it must be gravity that's doing it. this area never dries out.

I know a guy that had to put a drain tube out the top of his well head because it would constantly pour out the top flooding his lawn as well, his house is at the bottom of a hill in a low spot though.

 

[Racer71]

Check your basement.

 

[deere755]

Check your basement.

We don't have a basement but our crawl space is flooded which has happened before. The well is probably 300 feet from the house.


Bird I am not sure how I posted this thread twice but I guess that is what I get for being on the computer when I should have been in bed. Sorry about that.

 

[Diesel-ME]

I have an old unused dug well in my yard. The snow just cleared out around it and I heppened to pull the cover for a look-see today. Similarly, I found the water to be within 6" or so of ground level. This is the 1st time ever that I've seen so much water in the ground around here (central Maine).

We have been really really lucky this spring though. After record snow fall this winter the melting over the past 3-4 weeks has been gradual, with no huge rain storms to mess things up.

Another week of nice high 40's-low 50's predicted (yeah that's nice around here for April and we'll see the snow leave the yard. Heck I may even be mowing grass before Memorial day

~Paul

 

[forgeblast]

This year i have had more places that have surface weeps then i have in the last 5 years. I was very surprised, some of the places were always damp but now there are puddles. the frogs seem to love them.