- Joined
- Mar 10, 2005
- Location
- Hooterville (24171)
We bought another house for my 24 y/o step-son to live in (no explanation should be needed why 
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The well was *BORED* (basically, they used a 24" auger down to bedrock and sleeved with 20" concrete pipe) sometime late '49-early '50 and supported 2 adults & 4 kids over it's life . We've had the well "cleaned" (basically, shocked, lot's of agitation and pumped out x3) and that old well guy deemed it "pretty decent" from a flow perspective (barring bacteria testing).
Specs are:
- (from ground level) 39' deep
- Water level is 19' 6" from ground level
- According my ciphering that should be about 320 gallons capacity
- That volume was refilled (from as close to empty as his pump would do) in about 20 hours = approx. a little less than 1 gal/minute
The cleaner suggested a regular submersible pump (given the water depth was over 10') versus a jet pump. I've had some exposure to jet pumps (mostly negative) and he backed it up with nothing good to say.
Anyone see anything obviously wrong with this?
The goal is to make it as trouble-free as possible for the next 10 years.
I'm good installing a 1/2submersible, but having trouble finding a pitless adapter suitable for the 20" (24" OD) concrete casing radius. I realize I could go cheaper, using a copper elbow (cemented/grouted thru the case), but that will add valuable time on the backside WHEN (not if) the pump needs to come back out...
)The well was *BORED* (basically, they used a 24" auger down to bedrock and sleeved with 20" concrete pipe) sometime late '49-early '50 and supported 2 adults & 4 kids over it's life . We've had the well "cleaned" (basically, shocked, lot's of agitation and pumped out x3) and that old well guy deemed it "pretty decent" from a flow perspective (barring bacteria testing).
Specs are:
- (from ground level) 39' deep
- Water level is 19' 6" from ground level
- According my ciphering that should be about 320 gallons capacity
- That volume was refilled (from as close to empty as his pump would do) in about 20 hours = approx. a little less than 1 gal/minute
The cleaner suggested a regular submersible pump (given the water depth was over 10') versus a jet pump. I've had some exposure to jet pumps (mostly negative) and he backed it up with nothing good to say.
Anyone see anything obviously wrong with this?
The goal is to make it as trouble-free as possible for the next 10 years.
I'm good installing a 1/2submersible, but having trouble finding a pitless adapter suitable for the 20" (24" OD) concrete casing radius. I realize I could go cheaper, using a copper elbow (cemented/grouted thru the case), but that will add valuable time on the backside WHEN (not if) the pump needs to come back out...
