Oh Well , no water to be found

[Matthew Paul]

Oh Well , its all about my well .  I have a duplex that was still using a hand dug well .  Like jack and jill went up the hill , except this one has a 3 ft round concrete lid and a pump in it .  I went over on Sunday to re energise the water since a tenant was gonna move in .      

NO WATER   

I move the lid and there is 1 ft of water in the well , it usually has 5 to 6 ft of water in it and fills up fast . So I have to bite the bullet and get a new well drilled . We have stupid rues here and there is good water at 100 ft , BUT due to radon we have to go 450 feet . So I have to drob $ 13,000 on a new well .   The price was $16,000 but if I do the connection and the lawn restoration they knock 3 grand off .    I have tractor/loaders and backhoes so thats no big deal and the connection is easy its just use the existing wire and hook up some poly pipe . 

I knew this day was coming , I was always on pins and needles  with this well , BUT luckly it went dry when there were NO tenants there .  But still 13K sucks 

[Steve Babiak]

Originally posted by @Matthew Paul:

Originally posted by @Thomas S.:

Did you try digging the existing well deeper before going the route of drilling. If it has a foot of water it simply means the water table is low. Dig down 5 feet and you should end up with 6 feet of water.

To test this run he well pump and see how fast the existing water level is being maintained.

Thats not gonna happen , i am not going down a 25 ft deep hole thats 3 ft around standing in a foot of water and shoveling wet sand into a bucket and then having someone pulling that bucket up over my head . 

Hand dug wells are a thing of the past . It worked for me for the first 3 years I owned the house , the gross rents were $ 22K a year .  I had the money set aside for this . 

Its the last hand dug well on the street , it was installed in 1954 

Maybe hire somebody to hand dig, while you raise the bucket? ;)