Mike(NEOhio)
Well-known Member
- Location
- Newbury, Ohio
My well is drilled 75 ft and cased 25, to bedrock. The pump is down 30 feet and the water level is at 13 feet. Always had plenty of flow but it would pull sediment when I used a lot of water. It settles over a couple of days but it's gotten worse over the years. Now we can only do one load of clothes in a day. I put a whole-house filter on over the weekend and the 5 micron element plugged in about 90 seconds. Has anybody here ever pumped out a well? I talked to a driller who said he could bail it but would have to get his truck into the wife's landscaping. "Absolutely NOT" was the response. I've tried just running it wide open from a hose but with the pump so shallow it can't pull fast enough to really clear it. I have a pump rated 100gpm at 10' head but I don't know if it will lift that much. Any suggestions?