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Earle Kubat
07-22-2008, 04:27 PM
Can someone please help me?
I live at sea level in Southern New Jersey. Very sandy soil. No clay.
I have a 1-1/4" shallow well point and casing located approximately fifteen feet from the intake connection of my 3/4 hp A.Y. McDonald Shallow Well Jet Pump, which is located inside my garage. The depth of the water inside the casing is normally around nine feet, with the point driven down to thirty feet. The pump is "new" this spring. I did not connect a pressure tank. I simply turn on a 220 volt/30 amp switch to provide power to the pump.
The pump sounds fine (nice and quiet) and is securely mounted to the garage floor (no vibration). There are absolutely no suction line leaks (all joints are well connected). The suction side is plumbed in with Sched 40 1-1/4 PVC. The discharge side is all 3/4". Frequent checking of the well casing through the 1-1/4 cap indicates the water level in the well remains consistently at nine to twelve feet.
Problem: I am only getting 2 to 21/2 gallons of water per minute. I need more to feed my lawn sprinklers. This is the only purpose of the well. My home is a separate water supply system. I would give just about anything to get this volume up to about ten gpm. Please.... any ideas. My lawn is screaming at me and needs more water. Please Help!
Earle Kubat

leejosepho
07-22-2008, 06:03 PM
How old is the well? I had a well act a little like that a few years ago, and cleaning it with Nu-Well pellets took care of the problem completely. I disconnected the pump and dropped the pellets into the well a few at a time while adding a little water and poking a piece of small PVC pipe up and down in the well to agitate the pellets and keep them from clumping. After I got all the pellets down the pipe, I capped the well off tightly overnight after someone had told me some "fizzing" would drive the solution on down and out through the point. The next day I used a pitcher pump to draw all the gunky water out, then I connected the pump back up and got more water than ever before!