Hello,
I'm new to this forum and to having a well. This looks like a great forum, lots of good information and very helpful people and advice.
I'm in the process of buying a house, it's been vacant for about 1 1/2 yrs and the power, and well pump, have been shut off. The power was just turned on and the pump run for the first time in quite a while. The water is very dirty, you can't see through a glass of water or to the bottom of the toilet tank after running the water. During the test we did run the well empty twice, it was dirty the whole time.
The well was put in 1997, it's 300 ft deep, uses 3/8" drilled casing (I'm not sure what effect this may have, just saw it on the original records), the flow is pretty low, it pumps at about 7.5 gpm but recovers pretty slow at about 1.3 gpm, same rate from the original test and the retest the other day.
Is it typical for a well thats been off so long to be very dirty? How long or amount of water should I expect to need to run before it clears up.
Thanks,
Jerry
I'm new to this forum and to having a well. This looks like a great forum, lots of good information and very helpful people and advice.
I'm in the process of buying a house, it's been vacant for about 1 1/2 yrs and the power, and well pump, have been shut off. The power was just turned on and the pump run for the first time in quite a while. The water is very dirty, you can't see through a glass of water or to the bottom of the toilet tank after running the water. During the test we did run the well empty twice, it was dirty the whole time.
The well was put in 1997, it's 300 ft deep, uses 3/8" drilled casing (I'm not sure what effect this may have, just saw it on the original records), the flow is pretty low, it pumps at about 7.5 gpm but recovers pretty slow at about 1.3 gpm, same rate from the original test and the retest the other day.
Is it typical for a well thats been off so long to be very dirty? How long or amount of water should I expect to need to run before it clears up.
Thanks,
Jerry