What Are You Drinking Tonight?

[CurSedVoyce]

i use a weighted throw line to find bottom and depth to water.
It's easier when you already have pipe in it and can just use pipe length as you pull the pump to be cleaned etc

 

[Burnham]

The fellow who drilled my well used some sort of device to shoot a beam of light (I think...it was over 30 years ago ) down the shaft that then registered the depth to the surface of the water.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Light faster

 

[flushcut]

Can you elaborate on the "forced" part? I could see the city mandating that they hook to city water, but fail to see how the city could force them to use it.

Well it went something like this, here’s your new city water and disconnect your well. Plus here’s your new sewer/water bill. That was it in a nutshell as it was told to me.

 

[flushcut]

what would you suggest. Remove concrete cap and hire someone to consult? Wondering if there is a hand pump option if I just want to redneck it and have for emergency water. Dont want to spend to much if well is bad....

I would have the water tested first(if possible) before spending a lot of money.

We looked into a hand pump and figured about $2000 all in but our well is 112’ so fairly shallow deeper wells need a more expensive pump.

 

[SeanKroll]

My neighbors each have 25' deep wells, one put in by hand for the garden with a hand pump plus power-outage backup. Both have deeper wells.

Mine is 82' deep and has an iron-remover deal that I should learn more about. It self-flushes, I guess.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

We are at 160 feet and considered not a terribly deep well. Waters head is at 60 feet current. Might drop down to about 100 in summer

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Oh, and Rob put in a solar powered DC pump this year. It'll fill a 3000 gallon tank in a day withfull sun. Down side, wont pump at night.

 

[flushcut]

We are at 160 feet and considered not a terribly deep well. Waters head is at 60 feet current. Might drop down to about 100 in summer

I would think that is really shallow in your neck of the woods.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Probably so. I know folks that are 400-1000 feet.

 

[SeanKroll]

Spendy for digging a well, I'll bet!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Whooooo boy it is.

 

[Dave Shepard]

There is one here in town that is over 1,300'. The former General Electric building where I cut the timber frame earlier this year is over 1,800, and I'm told the water is around 95⁰. That one is a mile up a mountain, so I imagine they had to drill until they got back to the valley floor.

 

[Burnham]

95 degrees! Opportunity there, I think.

My well supplies 48 degree water.

 

[lxskllr]

Nothing like a nice refreshing glass of hot water when you've been working outside in the summer :^D

 

[Dave Shepard]

A former acquaintance worked in that building 30, or more, years ago and tried to set up a geothermal system. Guy running the shop didn't, or refused, to understand what that was. So, a missed opportunity, in this case.

 

[flushcut]

Is there a volcano near by? 95° is real warm, that’s bath water!

 

[Dave Shepard]

I'm not sure what was going on geologically. Typically, ground water is in a certain range, but it is much hotter in that well. In fact, the USGS stopped in to check it out at one point. Much before my time at the building.

 

[flushcut]

It would be something to know what’s going on down below.

 

[davidwyby]

We are below sea level on mud, very shallow ground water. Well water is nasty. We have a lot of geothermal energy wells.

City water is canal water…dirt and chlorine. We have RO.

 

[stikine]

RO ?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Reverse Osmosis

 

[davidwyby]

May be a downside that it strips Every Thing out of the water

 

[treebilly]

Drinking lots of coffee and water today. Got to keep caffeinated to survive the holiday

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Coffee, now on hot toddy