camerondaryl
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I have been having this problem for a while.
I just shocked my well and was flushing the chlorine out with an out side tap and hose when the pump just sudenly loses pressure. I go and prime it back and no problems, it will run for a few minutes, then cuts out again...no pressure. This went on for a while and finally it wouldn't prime up to enough pressure to maintain a faucet. I could slowly prime it to about 30psi (it would take a lot longer than it should because it usually just shoots right up to normal operating range) but when I turned a faucet on it never even cut back in.
Now I have a lot of sediment in my water, with a 500ft well (yeah lucky me) which apparently fills up overnight within 100ft of the surface. Could this have something to do with the sediment and the pressure tank or the well pump? I installed a simple in-line filter after my pressure switch and there really is a significant amount of sediment and silt or whatever it is. Mostly dark grey colour but sometimes a bit of brown.
If it is a sediment problem, is there some kind of filter that you can put on the well pump itself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I have some renters moving in in a couple of weeks and would like to get the problem sorted out before.
Thanks,
Daryl
I just shocked my well and was flushing the chlorine out with an out side tap and hose when the pump just sudenly loses pressure. I go and prime it back and no problems, it will run for a few minutes, then cuts out again...no pressure. This went on for a while and finally it wouldn't prime up to enough pressure to maintain a faucet. I could slowly prime it to about 30psi (it would take a lot longer than it should because it usually just shoots right up to normal operating range) but when I turned a faucet on it never even cut back in.
Now I have a lot of sediment in my water, with a 500ft well (yeah lucky me) which apparently fills up overnight within 100ft of the surface. Could this have something to do with the sediment and the pressure tank or the well pump? I installed a simple in-line filter after my pressure switch and there really is a significant amount of sediment and silt or whatever it is. Mostly dark grey colour but sometimes a bit of brown.
If it is a sediment problem, is there some kind of filter that you can put on the well pump itself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I have some renters moving in in a couple of weeks and would like to get the problem sorted out before.
Thanks,
Daryl