Water Well

[JEck]

Bought my house last year and the previous owner tore out the submersible pump, all the wiring in the well house and inside my house, and all the underground throughout the yard when he put in artificial turf. I went back to grass and am needing to figure out what would be the best way to go about this. My yard is not very big so it won’t take much water to keep up. I bought a cheap 1hp jet pump online. What would be the best way to go about plumbing this in? Should I just stick a foot valve on a garden hose and stick it down the casing, or should I figure out how to run pvc thru the well house cover?

 

[Rich M]

First read seems like drinking water well. Second read is irrigation well.

If irrigation well stick the pipe down the well if you can. Use a check valve to maintain pressure at pump.

If drinking water well, run off drinking water system.

Im a scientist kind of guy. Not into this green grass thing that wastes water and spreads fertilizers far an wide for no reason. My grass goes brown and crunchy in summer but my food plots don’t. You anly water em once a month. Screw the lawn.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

How deep is the well? What’s the static level?

 

[JEck]

16 feet to water, total well depth of 37’

 

[wowzers]

16 feet to water, total well depth of 37’

I’m really jealous as someone who just drilled a 400’ one.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

I think I would get a role of poly pipe for this.

 

[Customweld]

I’m really jealous as someone who just drilled a 400’ one.

Ouch! Wells up in your area are expensive to drill.

 

[wowzers]

Ouch! Wells up in your area are expensive to drill.

Yes they are. I was into the well for the same as I paid for the property almost ten years ago.

 

[Beendare]

16 feet to water, total well depth of 37’

Multiple options and it depends on whether you can run continuous off of the well itself- you would need to test to determine. My guess is it won't pump continuous to water the yard and thats why the previous owner took it out....or he kept replacing pumps and/or having pump problems.

In cases where you cannot pump continuous; pump into a storage tank then have another pump in the tank.

In any case it's always best to install a pump saver circuit on your well pump- saves your pump. FYI, Old wells benefit from jamming a big air hose in there and pumping out the accumulated crap and silt.