Dis360
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Was there any sediment when you drained the tank or did it just start after the pump was turned back on? If only after, the sediment is probably coming directly from the well and is not an accumulation in the tank. If it does not clear up with hard pumping, you might need to add a dole valve to limit the pump GPM.
I don't recall much if any sediment coming out when I was emptying the tank, it was only once it was re-pressurized, in fact as the tank cycles the pump on water coming out turns brown almost instantly then goes away once the pump cuts off. From what I understand my well is 240 feet deep and the water level is 70 feet from the surface, I don't know how deep the actual pump goes down. The pump installed has quite a bit more flow, 13GPM over the previous pumps that have been over the years, those were 6 and 7 GPM but I don't know how they acted because I didn't live here then.