well drilling time

[tommu56]

Just got my quote from Del Rio - 40K including pump. THat's about twice what I was hoping for.

If you are doing it off grid make sure the pump wont have a large inrush.
Most drillers aren't use to off grid and put a standard pump in with huge inrush.

My grundfus runs off a 2500 watt inverter with no surge.

tom

 

[BoFuller]

Del Rio drills a lot of wells off-grid, and he had a low surge pump in his estimate. Even with that, I'm going to try the rain-harvesting route for awhile and see how it works.

 

[MotorSeven]

Bo, why don't you just build a cistern out of concrete. Down in the Fla Keys many houses are on 30,000 gallon cisterns. I think it would be way cheaper than buying a bunch of tanks. They use concrete block, then marcite it just like a pool, form up and pour a top. All of them there are above ground, but you could go in ground at your location.

Full time living on a cistern requires a big change in water usage. There is a sign in my buddie's bathroom, "If it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow, let it mellow"

 

[Pettrix]

Del Rio drills a lot of wells off-grid, and he had a low surge pump in his estimate. Even with that, I'm going to try the rain-harvesting route for awhile and see how it works.

Don't forget that Seligman averages only 11" of rainfall per year.

 

[BoFuller]

Bo, why don't you just build a cistern out of concrete. Down in the Fla Keys many houses are on 30,000 gallon cisterns. I think it would be way cheaper than buying a bunch of tanks. They use concrete block, then marcite it just like a pool, form up and pour a top. All of them there are above ground, but you could go in ground at your location.

Full time living on a cistern requires a big change in water usage. There is a sign in my buddie's bathroom, "If it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow, let it mellow"

Thanks M7. We can conserve. We do it now when we are up there in the trailer.
As far as the huge tank, I think I prefer having 3 or so smaller ones. If something happened to contaminate one, I would still have the others.

 

[BoFuller]

Don't forget that Seligman averages only 11" of rainfall per year.

I knew that, but the guy I was talking to says he harvests 12,000 gallons a year. 11 inches can be a lot if you are ready for it. :thumbsup:

 

[BoFuller]

Don't forget that Seligman averages only 11" of rainfall per year.

And if in a couple years I find out I have had to haul too much, then I can drill.

 

[Boeing]

Bo,
How much is hauling water....gallons and $$$?
Where would you store it? These might be ideas for me.
The drillers are talking 900' deep plus pump and wiring.......many $$ required.
Plus, I would still probably need a surface reservoir to store water in case the pump/electricity failed.
With that in mind, what IF....I put a concrete storage tank, aka septic tank, in the ground to hold 1,000 gallons or so and had it delivered? Do you add clorox to keep it pure? A much smaller pump/wiring would do for that application..... good idea or bad.....?

 

[BoFuller]

Hauling water is just the cost of fuel. We have a 500 gallon trailer we take 3 miles down the road to the shared well. And even if we drilled, I would still put in 3 or 4 2500 gallon tanks for storage. And yes I put about a quart of chlorine in the 2500 gallon tank when I fill it.

 

[edlegault]

We were looking at buying some land (80 acres) in Arizona. Water wells were very deep and expensive. There was a place in town to buy water real cheap. The gas to drive truck/trailer to get water was more than the cost of the water. We ended up not buying the property because the property had CC&R against any type of commercial work or business conducted on it. Deal buster.