Good well flow rate?

[RobA]

I'm having a house built and just had a well dug. The driller hit 50 GPM at 300 feet. Is that good?

 

[jimmyj]

50 GPM is excellent.

 

[Carl_NH]

Thats great - sounds more like a small stream than a well! Normally if you get 5-10 GPM that will suffice for most homes.

I would look at the static water height and probably set the pump a bit above the area where the high flow is occuring because at that rate a submersible pump could get pushed around wearing out the wires or damaging the pump eventually.

 

[smstonypoint]

50 GPM is excellent.

I'm not an expert, but I agree with jimmyj. I believe that 5 GPM is adequate for residential use.

Steve

 

[nickel plate]

We get 5-1/2 gallons per minute and store it in a 3000 gallon surface tank and jet pump it everywhere on the property. Say you use 500 gallons per day. The tank refill at 3 gpm would be would take about 2-3/4 hours-at 5 gpm the refill would be an hour and forty minutes. This can be done over night on a timer to start and a float switch to stop.
Your quite fortunate with what you have provided to water is of good or repairable quality.

 

[RobertN]

I'm having a house built and just had a well dug. The driller hit 50 GPM at 300 feet. Is that good?

50gpm is great. Realistically, you'll pump around 10gpm though. To pump more takes a big expensive pump, big expensive wire, and a lot of electricity...

 

[Mousefield]

50gpm is great. Realistically, you'll pump around 10gpm though. To pump more takes a big expensive pump, big expensive wire, and a lot of electricity...

You are right. Most well (submersible) pumps are in the 8-10 gallon per minute. On our first property the well we drilled was rated at 30 gallon per minute but had a 10 gallon per minute pump. With 50 gallons per minute that is a great well. But sometimes wells will either end up producing less and sometime more and occasionally dry up. My brother had a good well until new neighbors drilled theirs, then his went dry and he had to have his drilled almost 300 feet deeper, can you say $$$

 

[keegs]

dang... @ 50 gpm ...you probably don't need a pumb ...JK

I think anything > 5 gpm is what they shoot for.

 

[jimmyj]

Maybe you can open a car wash with all that water!:thumbsup:

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

We don't know what our old one is. It's an above ground pump but has never been worked on or pulled. We have used it 20 years and only had to change out the holding tank. We think it was here 10 years before?? Noone was required to keep records back then.

We got nervous as its us and a tenant using off that old well. Also they are pushing ground water use here and we don't know what that will entail so we decided to drill a new one while we could. I think it was 310 ft, the flow is 40gpm. Hubby got a 2 HP pump it wasn't much more and its a 4 inch well. We have been watering the lawn, the garden and man do we have water. He is going to connect it to the house system, hasn't had time yet. But we think its good to go for a long long time.

Our next door neighbor has a nursery and the county or someone came out and put a meter on his well and he has to pay a waterbill. Ever heard of that?

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

They had drilled one about a 1/4 mile away for an RV park, he said it produces 80gpm.

We don't live to far from the San Jacinto River so we have great water here. One well driller said this is some of the finest water quality around. Our house is 30 years old, original pipes and there is no lime or anything in them. I know we have some dissolved calcium in it, figure that's probably why my bone density is so good for an old lady!

 

[bironacad]

Thats great - sounds more like a small stream than a well! Normally if you get 5-10 GPM that will suffice for most homes.

I would look at the static water height and probably set the pump a bit above the area where the high flow is occuring because at that rate a submersible pump could get pushed around wearing out the wires or damaging the pump eventually.

Anything over 5 is supposed to be good. My well produces 12 and I can run two hoses at the same time. I suspect your bragging, lol.:laughing:

 

[Gordon Gould]

My well was only 2 gpm when drilled in 2000 which was a bad drought year here. So it may be more now. The pump is down 440 ft and the static level is way up at 17 ft so we have alot of storage. Over 500 gal. We have never had a problem.

 

[dmccarty]

Most of the wells in my area are around 5 GPM. One near by well is at 30 GPM which is unreal. Your 50 GPM is huge.

We have 15 GPM which is excellent. I think our pump is 5 GPM.

Later,
Dan

 

[smstonypoint]

I don't want to come off as bragging, but I had a well drilled at my farm that produces 60 GPM. The well driller said that I had enough water to establish a mobile home park.

The well driller dowsed to determine the exact drilling location. I realize that there is no scientific basis for dowsing, but it didn't hurt in my case.

Steve

 

[rmully]

I had an old shallow well and it did OK until the 2007 drouth and then I ran out of water and had to look about putting in a new well. They drilled for 2 days and the drill operator asked me how much water I wanted and i replied enough to run the house and wash the truck and take care of the garden... he laughed and said you have 175 gallons a minute and that is more than the city of Concord. I was shocked to say the least. The well excedes my pump ...what a surprise.

 

[smstonypoint]

I he laughed and said you have 175 gallons a minute and that is more than the city of Concord. I was shocked to say the least. The well excedes my pump ...what a surprise.

That makes my 60 GPM a mere trickle.

Am I correct in thinking that you are located in Cabarrus County? My farm is located in Iredell county.

Steve

 

[RobA]

Thanks for the feedback. This will be the first time I've had a well.

 

[grsthegreat]

I don't want to come off as bragging, but I had a well drilled at my farm that produces 60 GPM. The well driller said that I had enough water to establish a mobile home park.

The well driller dowsed to determine the exact drilling location. I realize that there is no scientific basis for dowsing, but it didn't hurt in my case.

Steve

i never believed in dowsing either, until i had someone show me how to do it. I was trying to locate a 2" waterline - 5 feet underground and wasn't sure where it was. My wife was by my side and was a total skeptic. after locating the same spot 4 times in different directions, i got on the mini ex, and dang if i wasn't exactly where the wand said it would be.

kind of spooky scary that is

 

[gwjd]

ye we were looking for a pipe at work water company came out to help find a leak they pulled out the bent wire and sure enough on the blue print water main was right there