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Yea, I did check it as I drove it down. ( however It was my first time doing it) Ok, if you checked it, you must have used a Pitcher Pump. If so, the water level had to be less than 25 feet. A shallow well jet pump would have worked much better than a packer jet.
The reason I went with a deep well pump is, I have a 1.5 dia well about 3 feet away that with a 1/2 hp pump only produces around 2-3 gallons/min. ( although I never ran short of water or had any surging problems). In researching wells, I found that 25' is the max recommended depth for a shallow well pump. Anything deeper requires a packer and a jet pump to get any amount of gpm. The 25 feet is the depth to water. The depth of the well has nothing whatsoever to do with deep or shallow well pumps.
Is there a better way for me to go? Yes, put a shallow well ejector on that pump and see what it will do. If you have another well close by, the water level in it will be the same as the other well.
Can you relate the Gauze size to GPM for me? I thought I read somewhere that an 80 gauze equated to around 15 GPM. In which case my ¾ hp pump would be pretty much maxing out the screen. An 80 gauze screen is a very fine mesh. It is used to stop sand a little larger in size than powder. The flow through it and the surrounding sand is quiet slow. I would be surprised if you were to get 5 gpm through it. Since you drove this well, you will never be able to see what the water bearing formation is like or it's size. The screen could be in Pea Gravel which could use a 25 slot screen which would yield a lot of water compared to the 80 gauze in fine sand.
Because of my other pump not having any surging issues, do you think a smaller pump would work better? Something pulling around 9-10 gpm? The pump size has nothing to do with the flow. A 1/2hp pump can produce aroung 10 gpm. So your reduced flow is on account of the well and screen not the pump.
Sorry for all the questions, I really do appreciate any help I can get!
I'm sorry for the bad news, but I think you need to go back to the drawing board. The way to drill a two inch well; is to first knock the casing in the ground (no screen) then drill it out using a 1" pipe with a chisel shaped bit that water can be forced through with a good sized centrifugal pump. Once you go out the end of the pipe, you will get samples of the formation flowing up the 2" pipe. When you get into clean sand/gravel, that is where the water will come from. Not clay, or dirt. The well will also start drinking the circulated water you are drilling with, this is a good indication the formation will make water. Once you get there, you can drive an 1-1/4" screen through the end of the pipe that is consistant with the formations size, with a K-Packer on the end or with the use of a Bremer Check and the well is done.
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