James Taylor
New Member
Hello forum. My name is James and I have a few questions to ask. Most recently I moved into a house that obtains water through a deep well system that stopped working after a year of living here. The system was replaced with same characteristics except the pressure tank.{100ft. well; new 1/2 horse power pump(Berkley); new avc 42gal. tank(avc is in middle of tank in the 1 1/4inch outlet, not the top 1/4inch outlet hole); new foot vave that is 25ft. below the static water level}.
The "meat" of my issue is this: The neighbors that live on the plat behind me were building their house themselves, and needed water(they have NO deep well, septic system or a registered county address). So my household allowed them to use our outside faucet to have some water through @60yards of connected hose. They then burried the long hose 4inches underground for the total length of the connection. I left the outside faucet on to be considerate of their needs at the time. Note this was to only be needed until their well was dug. It has been over 3 months. They have not begun to dig for a well, and I noticed the pump is cycling every 1minutes & 18secs. I cut off the out side faucet and not only did it not cycle for over 40minutes it held it's pressure at 50psi(set for 30/50). This let me know that something was wrong. Went next door and found out they had a leak in the hose were it connects to their house. I found out they hooked the end of the hose from my house to their house through a inlet faucet conversion that flows water through thier sinks (2 so far). They also have a splitter that has another hose on it the is draped through their bathroom window that they are using to fill their toilet bowl tank so they can flush it. But I thought how can they be flushing without a county sewage hook-up line, or a septic system. EUREKA!! At the end of our 3/4 acre property they dug a trench @ 1ft. deep, and put a big pvc pipe from under their house(near the bathroom), ran this pipe @ 40ft. and broke out a hole
in the top of our 2nd cylinder(1ft.under surface) in our septic system. Who do these people think they are? When questioned about this they say our drainfields run on their property, and if we don't want to get in trouble and to have to get them pulled up(costing $15,000) I better be cool. But every thing in my residence is up to code and on county records.
So now my pump keeps running non-stop every minute or so. The neighbor says "he has a leak and don't worry about it, deep well pumps can handle running all day, how do you think people water their lawns"? I'm confused about my rights and my newly installed pump. He is saying I should stop worrying because the pump will be fine, and if it goes up he will replace the pump.
The reason I have not cut off our outside faucet is because of what he says about the drainfeilds on his property. I don't want the fines or whatever that he is claiming.
IS THERE ANY THING I CAN DO TO STOP THE PUMP FROM CONSTANTLY RUNNING BESIDES CUTTING THE OUTSIDE FAUCET OFF? ANY MANUAL ADJUSTMENTS? ANY EQUIPMENT PARTS I CAN INSTALL? CAN MY PUMP BURN UP BEING 1/2HP AND 4 MONTHS OLD? WHERE CAN I FIND OUT ABOUT MY RIGHTS? CAN A PUMP HANDLE 2 RESIDENCES? CAN THE WELL RUN DRY BECAUSE OF CONSTANT RUNNING OF PUMP?
The "meat" of my issue is this: The neighbors that live on the plat behind me were building their house themselves, and needed water(they have NO deep well, septic system or a registered county address). So my household allowed them to use our outside faucet to have some water through @60yards of connected hose. They then burried the long hose 4inches underground for the total length of the connection. I left the outside faucet on to be considerate of their needs at the time. Note this was to only be needed until their well was dug. It has been over 3 months. They have not begun to dig for a well, and I noticed the pump is cycling every 1minutes & 18secs. I cut off the out side faucet and not only did it not cycle for over 40minutes it held it's pressure at 50psi(set for 30/50). This let me know that something was wrong. Went next door and found out they had a leak in the hose were it connects to their house. I found out they hooked the end of the hose from my house to their house through a inlet faucet conversion that flows water through thier sinks (2 so far). They also have a splitter that has another hose on it the is draped through their bathroom window that they are using to fill their toilet bowl tank so they can flush it. But I thought how can they be flushing without a county sewage hook-up line, or a septic system. EUREKA!! At the end of our 3/4 acre property they dug a trench @ 1ft. deep, and put a big pvc pipe from under their house(near the bathroom), ran this pipe @ 40ft. and broke out a hole
in the top of our 2nd cylinder(1ft.under surface) in our septic system. Who do these people think they are? When questioned about this they say our drainfields run on their property, and if we don't want to get in trouble and to have to get them pulled up(costing $15,000) I better be cool. But every thing in my residence is up to code and on county records.
So now my pump keeps running non-stop every minute or so. The neighbor says "he has a leak and don't worry about it, deep well pumps can handle running all day, how do you think people water their lawns"? I'm confused about my rights and my newly installed pump. He is saying I should stop worrying because the pump will be fine, and if it goes up he will replace the pump.
The reason I have not cut off our outside faucet is because of what he says about the drainfeilds on his property. I don't want the fines or whatever that he is claiming.
IS THERE ANY THING I CAN DO TO STOP THE PUMP FROM CONSTANTLY RUNNING BESIDES CUTTING THE OUTSIDE FAUCET OFF? ANY MANUAL ADJUSTMENTS? ANY EQUIPMENT PARTS I CAN INSTALL? CAN MY PUMP BURN UP BEING 1/2HP AND 4 MONTHS OLD? WHERE CAN I FIND OUT ABOUT MY RIGHTS? CAN A PUMP HANDLE 2 RESIDENCES? CAN THE WELL RUN DRY BECAUSE OF CONSTANT RUNNING OF PUMP?