Finding my well.

[Tom E]

I bought my house in 1984. The house was built in 1970. The well is shared with the house next door and we both have our own in home jet pumps. I never knew exactly where the well was and it doesn't have an above ground cap. The neighbor is in a nursing home and no one lives there right now so I can't ask him if he knows. There is no problem right now except that I am in the process of replacing my 44 year old jet pump. Because of the age of the well I would like to find out where it is just in case. How can I go about doing this?

 

[Valveman]

Metal pipes can be traced back with a metal detector. Plastic pipe you may need to feed a wire through to find with a detector, or just start digging.

 

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[Greenmonster123]

When I need to trace plastic pipes I use a 200’ wire snake and a wire locator. Regular metal detectors won’t work if it is deep. You can probably rent a locator from electrical supply house or irrigation supply house. Also if you think it is a steel casing a Ferro-magnetic locator works very well for finding metal objects buried vertically

 

[Toolaholic]

Find out who has lived in your hood for a long time and is somewhat Mechanical. They may remember the well driller Co. then call them.

 

[Reach4]

https://terrylove.com/forums/index.php?threads/fleck-5600-twin-1054-tanks-and-chlorine-injection-valve-leak-media-replace.82624/page-2#post-595812 says

NJ attempted to digitize well records. you can search various ways here:
https://www13.state.nj.us/DataMiner...ategory=y&catName=Water+Supply+and+Geoscience
can search by well driller, when well was drilled, location of well,etc. my well was drilled at about the same time and I was able to locate the record (I think) based on the location with no other records being close in proximity and the timeframe being correct​

If you cannot find the info yourself, https://www.state.nj.us/dep/watersupply/pw_permit.html has links where they offer to search for $10.

 

[Valveman]

I have seen people who could find it with two brass rods, but not me.

 

[Dana]

I have seen people who could find it with two brass rods, but not me.

What do you use, bent coat-hangers, or are you a forked stick kind o' guy?

 

[Valveman]

Can't make it work for me. But I have dug where I was told and some people can do that very well.

 

[Dana]

Can't make it work for me. But I have dug where I was told and some people can do that very well.

Every time I've tried it with bent wires I ended up finding the power lines instead (usually over my head, not exactly where I was looking. )