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Woke up without water pressure yesterday. The pump was still running so it hadn't been off long enough to shut it in. Hooked up the neighbor's hose to prime it and hopefully get it started... but my pump would never kick in and take the prime. Any ideas on how to get water flowing?

I recently had the foot valve changed on my shallow water well... as usual, it blew a bunch of sand on restart. we let it run for five or ten minutes to blow most of the sand out, but still got a lot in the house plumbing. all three toilets are out. two will flush if you fill the reservoir...

I recently had the foot valve changed on my shallow water well... as usual, it blew a bunch of sand on restart. we let it run for five or ten minutes to blow most of the sand out, but still got a lot in the house plumbing. all three toilets are out. two will flush if you fill the reservoir...

my well froze friday night... no water but the gauge is holding 82 psi today [monday], the weather got to 50 or so for the entire afternoon and i had placed a space heater in the well house. now the well has cut back on, but will run continuously without shutting off. pressure gauge still...

so i bought this house with a well knowing nothing about how to own or maintain a water well... but you guys have helped me service it many times before so i'm hoping you can do so again.. this one looks bad though - real bad. with no warning signs the wife comes over and says the water is...

Gustav passed through here yesterday... we lost power around 2 p.m. and were out about 26 hours. When the power came back on, neither the well or flushing is working. I'm chalking the flushing up to a flooded septic tank and allowing the septic pump some time to work... however, the well...

Recently, I was having problems with my water well and the bladder tank. I fixed it with advice from this site [thanks!]. However, in doing so, it seems that some sludgy stuff was purged from the bladder through my water lines. It was enough to clog most of the filters on my faucets, etc...