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Posted by on September 23, 2007, 12:45 pm
> ngein...@gmail.com wrote:
> > We drilled our well 6years ago and there were no problems. Now in the
> > past year our production has gone done a lot, and we recently retested
> > the water and it has high levels of sodium and fluoride were they do
> > not recommend we drink or cook with it. So we had a drilling company
> > come and took a look and he examined the substance we get from our
> > filter and said it was surface sand which was not a good sign. He
> > decided to shock the well and see if that would help. So I went to go
> > and pump out the well after letting it sit for 12hours and the water
> > only ran for 45 minutes and that was it, and since then after letting
> > the well recover(8hours) the water only pumps out for 15-20minutes.
> > So now I am looking for others opinions before we spend a bunch of
> > money drilling a new well or deepening the exsisting one. There are
> > so many different things that could be the problem, but I don't know
> > were to start.
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Natasha
>
> How deep is the well? What depth is the pump? How deep was the
> water table when you drilled the well 6 years ago?
> Can you measure the current water table depth?
> What part of the country are you in?
> How wet was the weather in the months preceding your well drilling?
> How wet has the weather been in the past months?
> Do you have a storage tank, or just a pressure tank?
> Do you have a "Pumpsaver" or similar on your pump?
>
> If your drilling company thought that shocking the well would solve
> your water production problems, I would find another well "expert".
> Your water table has gone down. They do go up and down depending
> upon the time of year and the the weather (and sometimes other factors).
>
> Depending upon your answers to the above questions, there may be
> a variety of things that you could do to get by until the water
> table recovers.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Well Depth- 220ft
Not sure depth of pump
We are in North Western Alberta, Canada
We have a pressure tank only
We donot have a pump saver.
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