Well Depth?

[Thomas]

My main well 130 feet deep.
Hit ledge at 110 feet and 40 gallons a min.
The other well which is about 50 yards away they hit ledge about 100 feet and went extra 20 feet and that over flows 5 gallons a min.

Took today off from work for the weatherman said maybe a shower.....Wrong!!
8am thunderstorm w/ rain and 3pm thunderstorm rain and wind,looks Like I'll double my pace around here just to get caught up.

Thomas..NH

 

[JimBinMI]

Wen,

Come on! Different strokes for different folks, you know!

You say tomato I say tamato. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Some people just prefer the taste....OK?

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!

 

[JimBinMI]

Wen,

By the by, I've seen lots of homes on well water that had a hard water faucet at the kitchen sink! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!

 

[MarkV]

P.K., Is it common to have water coming out that hot in your area? Sounds like Yellow Stone Park. We are still building so no power for hot water yet. Our water is so cold that washing up at the end of the day will shrivel up all kinds of important body parts.

 

[TomG]

I don't know about softeners. Do they take out iron? When we bought this place, it had an air injector in the feed line and a filter tank. The unit backflushes every week, but doesn't need salt. I understand the unit is removing iron and several other metals. The iron isn't too bad, so we disconnected the unit.

Our well is 175' but we've never tested the flow. Surface water is about 20'. The water is so cold that I'm thinking of rigging up a heat exchange system to cut down on electric bills. The exchanger would use waste water to warm the well water going to the hot water heater.

The well at our camp, about 10 miles away, is a dug well about 20' deep. There, you hit surface water at 5'. Both places are on the Canadian Shield, a huge granite layer that has been glaciated. It's an area of granite and schist outcroppings and banks of glacier sand. The depths of sand layers and drainage patterns are so varied that you can hit water anywhere from 5' down to a bunch.

 

[JimBinMI]

TomG,

Yes, water softeners take out iron. It consists of a mineral tank and a salt tank. The salt sits in some water to create brine, salt water. The brine then backflushes the mineral tank to clean out anything it filtered from the water. This backflushing is usually either scheduled every week or number of days, etc based on water useage or like mine, it backflushes after is cleans "X" number of gallons of water. With the system I have, you save salt expense by only backflushing when needed.

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!

 

[JimBinMI]

MarkV,

OK, definitely not an expert here, what do you mean by 30 gallons a minute and 15 gallons a minute? Does that mean the well is naturally pressurized? I have my Well Record in front of me and it doesn't say anything about gallons/minute? My well has a 1/2 hp submersible pump and I have a pressurized tank in my basement.

JimBinMI

We boys and our toys!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I live in Oklahoma City. My well is 190 feet deep, The driller hit water at 110 feet. I can pump water at 60 gallon per minute without lowering the water level in the well. Wells on the other side of town go 500 feet deep and may get 12 gallons a minute. As I understand the gallons per minute rating, it is how much water can be pumped and sustained without pumping the well dry. Our water had enough minerals in it that it left a white residue on dishes and shower doors so we put in a water softener. THe taste was fine. I think it measured 23 mg per 1000 mg. The water softener removed the residue and my wife is happy so I am happy.

 

[W5FL]

Yes, If you have Iron in the water, and it is less than 5 ppm, then buy the biggest water softner you can afford and it will remove the iron and soften the water. It does require salt, but most units now measure the water consumption, and only recharge when the soft water is actually all used up.

Heat exchange with waste water is prohibited by most health codes, for obvious reasons. Where the ground temp is pretty constant, you can use a loop in the warmer ground to heat it some. Since water is normally above 32 degrees F in order to flow through the pipes, I am not sure you are going to gain enough to even worry about it. Most water from deep wells is about 50 deg F in this part of the country.

 

[Peter]

My well in Holliston MA is 500', 6gpm. Great cold water and I'm using no filters. They had to hydrofrac it to get it up to 6 gpm. I think 5 gpm is the minimum the state will allow for a single family home. I've had no problems with the amount of water (multiple showers, etc.)