r/WaterWellDrilling

Like the title says, we are trying to find our well. Bought the house 2 years ago and never got any information for it. The pump is in the basement and goes to the front yard, had someone come and dig around but still can’t find it. Don’t really want to spend a couple grand to have them come excavate... the town has no information on it either. Does anyone have any ideas for how we can find it ourselves? Metal detector maybe?

Edit: we’re located in Simsbury ct and the house was built in the 60s.

Picture of the pump

https://imgur.com/a/7Mpew9A

We are having well issues and aren’t sure the best way to remedy. Would love advice since we’ve gotten different suggestions from well companies. Short version is that the water turns brown/orange after heavy/moderate usage, and also the well can’t sustain a professional pressure washer. Details at the bottom.

Without actually inspecting the well, these are some suggestions we’ve gotten:
-Iron has clogged up the veins and we need to clean and blast the well to restore the yield.
-Blasting risks collapse, so we should brush, surge, and bail sediment from the well tank.
-Might need to deepen the well, or even drill an entirely new well.

Thoughts on these? Is blasting or surging too risky? We don’t want to jump to an extreme option, but are willing to do/pay what is needed to have reliable, quality water. FYI records show the test rate when drilled in 2017 was 15 gpm, and the pump is set at 140 ft. We have a water softener and a whole house sediment filter (which gets absolutely caked in iron) and water is usually clear. Thanks in advance!

Details:
After heavy (or even moderate) usage, the water will run brown from iron for 1-3 days. ie trying to fill our small fish pond, trying to use my residential pressure washer, running the hose to water newly planted trees. This used to happen more in the dry summer months but it has happened twice during this extremely wet spring. Our neighborhood has lots of iron, but none of neighbors have this same issue. Are we reaching the bottom of the well and stirring up the iron down there? Why does it happen so easily?

We had a professional pressure washer come do our small deck, and he kept having to pause because the pressure was dropping to zero. By the end of the job the water had turned brown. He estimated he had used maybe 100 gallons, and said he very rarely sees wells struggle like this. Not sure if our well is low capacity or what, but it seems like it should be able to handle a small power washing job. This is the only time the pressure has dropped like this…usually the water flows fine, it just turns brown.

started filing my pool for about an hour a day with the hose mostly open and on the first day I got these dark black filters within minutes of finishing filling, (we have filled our pool like this for the last 3 years without problem) and now I’ve slowed down to less then 45 minutes a day but they just get dirty supper quickly like within 30 minutes of even not filling the pool, I noticed that the partials seem to be caught mainly in the last finer layer of filter, located in north west NJ of that matters, setup of filters in the last photo and that filter on the right is first in line and was just replaced under 10 minutes ago

Not sure if this is the right sub for this. My parents have this super old well pump that doesn’t work. We are wanting to get the well up and going again. Anyone know what we could replace this with?

I have what appears to be an old abandoned shallow well/cistern setup on my property with a submersible pump still in place. I’m trying to understand whether it was a seepage cistern, shallow well, or groundwater collection system, and whether it’s recoverable for irrigation use.

I bought this house two years ago and it’s currently on city water. The house was built in the 60s. I removed a pressure tank assembly from the crawlspace that was left over from what I believe to be whatever this setup is.

I dropped a small little sump pump down in there and was using it to irrigate my garden, and given the really severe drought conditions in North Carolina pumped it dry within a few weeks

Having issues with lots of iron sediment in 3 year old well. I first noticed sediment and red iron slime in faucet aerators, water lines and toilet when the well was brand new. I installed GE whole house water filters and it has made a big difference for a few years.

We’re now having bigger issues with sediment filling up the pressure tank and loss of pressure. Regulator reads 45-70psi. I tried to flush the pressure tank out about 25 times and there was lots of black shiny iron sand spouting out the hose. The pressure tank still seems like it’s heavy and full of sediment.

I called the well drilling company gave them the original water test results(very high in iron), but otherwise good. They sent me a quote for over $7k for a total water filtration system.

Am I getting hosed?

The 35gallon pressure tank feeds 2 houses off 1 well. 2 laundry facilities, 3 bathrooms, Plenty of consistent water use.

Here are the specs from the initial drilling:

“Well Depth-425 feet
Casing-40 feet
Depth to Bedrock-3 feet
Sealed into Bedrock a drive shoe
Static water level at time of drill 20 feet
Yield-8 GPM
1 HP 10 GPM Pump set at 400 feet
Pressure Tank-Fl-12 35 gallon
 
Our wells are not screened or gravel packed. Please let us know if there is any other information needed. Have a great day!”

Should I pull the pump up 20ft? Install centrifugal filter before pressure tank? Both? Something else entirely?

Any guidance from neutral professionals would be appreciated. Thanks a million!

I’m the sprinkler guy at this place. The irrigation system is fed by a 3000 gal holding tank. The water wasn’t turning on and all wiring was ok on the sprinklers so I checked out the pump room. Our holding tank is full and the second I turned on the second controller I heard a beeping noise from the pump area (could be the pump controller but it didn’t beep a second time when I turned the sprinkler controller on again so I can’t tell). There’s never any water in this area even after rain and it looks like there’s some type of oil. I refrained from touching anything in case I get shocked.

Did something blow out on the outlet pump? There’s no psi minus the gravity fed water from the holding tank

I have a voltage meter, what should I check first?

Thanks in advance

Help! My husband and I just bought our first house about two months ago and it came with a fountain in our backyard. We have loved it and It has been working fine until a couple of days ago. We were outside with some friends and the pump was on and the fountain was completely full and then about 20 minutes later, we look in the fountain and the water was noticeably lower. We have come to the conclusion that the water only gets extremely low when the pump is on.

When the pump is off, the water seems to stay in. We really don’t know anything about backyard fountains so I thought I’d come here first before we attempted to fix it ourselves and then screw something up. Any help or advice would be so greatly appreciated. We are just worried the water is leaking towards our house or somewhere else that could potentially cost us some money.

Thanks in advance!!!

Hey all,

My well pump is starting to make this kind of scratchy, grinding noise inside of it when it first turns on. It kind of sounds like a rock or sand bouncing around.

We don’t really have sandy soil up here so I don’t think it’s that. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks!

Hi experts. Please don’t scare me. We are having this issue where we have renters next to our house and they have a broken farm tile in front of their house that floods and consistently runs off and directly onto our well. I just had our well tested and we have 11 TC and zero e. Coli…I had it tested after we actually replaced the pump in January and it was 4 TC and 0 e. Coli.

Unfortunately, nobody gives a shit that this is happening. The department of health won’t do anything because it’s not sewage running onto my well. The HOA doesn’t care. And neither does the county. Aside from getting a lawyer we appear to be out of options, but my concern is contamination from their stagnant water.

Please let me know your thoughts or if you have any advice.

Included pictures of the swamp. I did not get a good picture of it Running onto our well, but it does pretty regularly whenever it rains- we have a French drain installed to help with the flooding