well point question

[arribba]

I have a shack in the NC mountains that uses a spring/cistern system. The spring comes out of a hillside and right now is collected through seepage into a small bottomless tank. When it rains, I get a lot of organic matter in the water. Could I drive a well point into the hillside to collect the water (if I can miss the rocks) and use that to fill a sealed cistern?
Thanks

[speedbump]

I don't know where you are in NC, but I believe it's one large rock.

bob...

[Rancher]

a small bottomless tank. What is a bottomless tank?

Rancher

[arribba]

The "tank" is what the health department recommends... basically a barrel with a lid to keep out debris and the bottom cut out and filled with gravel. The water seeps into this and then moves downhill to a cistern.

If I can find the one part of NC that isn't rock, will the well point work driven horizontally into the hill?

Thanks.

[speedbump]

It would work in your bottomless tank if you used coarse sand or gravel. It won't work just hammered into the side of a hill.

bob...