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Hello,
I recently purchased a home which had an old well. The well was not producing much water flow so I decided to dig it up. I found it had a 3 inch casing with a 3/4 poly pipe drop tube. Turns out the metal elbow was almost corroded shut. While I had the well dug up I put a few bottles of well restore and blasted it out with an air compressor (160psi) at the bottom. After doing that I replaced the drop pipe with 1.5 pvc. The original pipe went down 21' but I put the new pipe down 23'. I get great flow 30GPM but the water has sand in it and it is messing up my sprinklers. Is there any way to stop the sand? I was thinking of digging it back up and installing a well screen. Any advise would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Paul
I recently purchased a home which had an old well. The well was not producing much water flow so I decided to dig it up. I found it had a 3 inch casing with a 3/4 poly pipe drop tube. Turns out the metal elbow was almost corroded shut. While I had the well dug up I put a few bottles of well restore and blasted it out with an air compressor (160psi) at the bottom. After doing that I replaced the drop pipe with 1.5 pvc. The original pipe went down 21' but I put the new pipe down 23'. I get great flow 30GPM but the water has sand in it and it is messing up my sprinklers. Is there any way to stop the sand? I was thinking of digging it back up and installing a well screen. Any advise would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Paul