2200.00 to drill a well and install a nice hand pump at my place.

[Altarboy]

Yay or nay?

[Helen Keller]

how deep?

[BISHOP]

Why just a hand pump?
Plumb it into the house AND put a hand pump on it for when there is a power outage.


BISHOP

[l921428x]

What kind of strata?

[Altarboy]

The cost may be less.That is based on 120ft. Since I live in a valley with a creek behind my house, it may be much more shallow. I have an electric well to the house now. The strata is dirt, limestone, etc..

[kuntryboy]

that's $18.33 a foot. my neighbor works for a drilling/well service over here in coffee county. i'd be glad to ask him about the price.

[Altarboy]

That includes a (approx) $500 well pump which is heavy duty. He quoted 12 per ft, but I am including the pump in the price as well as the $75.000 state fee. I can't see him needing to drill past 50 ft. Oh, and that is with at least one 22 ft casing.

[JTHunter]

AB - 50 feet is not deep enough to avoid surface contamination UNLESS you reach artesian water with 2+ gallons per minute flow rate.

I used to inspect and test wells in a Missouri county south of St. Louis for the health department.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

AB - 50 feet is not deep enough to avoid surface contamination UNLESS you reach artesian water with 2+ gallons per minute flow rate.

I used to inspect and test wells in a Missouri county south of St. Louis for the health department.

Doesn't it depend on the type of land? We're sand out here, I think they only went 60' down. I had some work done not long ago, gophers had chewed through the damn water pipe! Since then I've had to chlorinate the well every month and a half or so......Keep getting the rotten egg stench.... 20 years I had to do it once or twice, now every month and a half......I can't figure out what the problem is. Any suggestions?

[Altarboy]

I guess sulphur has oozed into your well.Both my neighbors have sulphur in their wells. I do not. I don't think it can be fixed- except by a water softener.

[O.S.O.K.]

The old time wells around here are only around 12-15' deep. The water is good. I'm talking about the ones that people dug themselves.

Regardless, I would think that an in-line filter would be much cheaper than drilling deeper. I don't know about reverse osmosis systems but that'd be another option.

I'm planning on using a driven point well system to put in a back up well on my place.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

I guess sulphur has oozed into your well.Both my neighbors have sulphur in their wells. I do not. I don't think it can be fixed- except by a water softener.

Water softener does nothing for rotten egg smell. Chlorine does the trick for a while. But it's wierd that I only had to clorinate the well a couple times in 20 years, have the well worked on and bam every month and a half.

[kuntryboy]

i have a sulphur well. it is about 125' deep. it is what some call white sulphur. we drink it daily. it does smell a little. i run it through an in-line charcoal filter. then we bring it in, let it stand, then pour it through a brita. tastes a hell of a lot better than city water.

[1 Patriot-of-many]

i have a sulphur well. it is about 125' deep. it is what some call white sulphur. we drink it daily. it does smell a little. i run it through an in-line charcoal filter. then we bring it in, let it stand, then pour it through a brita. tastes a hell of a lot better than city water.

Ours smells a lot. Terrible smell. I had an inline charcoal filter, they don't last very long. Guess I'll just keep chlorinating the well every month and a half.