Jfharper
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Have lived here for 15 years and am on a well with sub, holding tank, booster pump, and two pressure tanks. Our county has seen water basin problems due to believed too much agriculture, growth/ development and not enough rain. Basically they think there are too many straws in the water basin and not enough replenishment to keep up. Three of my neighbors have either had a well run dry or had to lower their subs 40 feet, many others in the county have had to drill deeper...the county supervisors are currently in hot water.
My well was tested at 35 gpm when we bought in 1999. Last July our submersible started making noise like it was sucking in air...I have a 20 gpm flow restrictor after the sub and that is where I here the air sound ...it is intermittent....when the sub kicks on it may make that air noise for a moment then doesn't make the noise until the holding tank is almost full then noise until the float kicks it off. Sometimes the air noise goes during the entire tank fill...usually during the daytime...other neighbors are running sprinklers for alfalfa/ forage / hay.
I was hoping we would get enough rain to solve the noise I have, but our rain amount was not enough to date.
After this spring if the rain doesn't solve this for me I was thinking of changing my restrictor down to 15 or 10 gpm to see if this would help with the noise...my guess is the sub is pulling down enough to create a little whirlpool sucking in air intermittently depending on where the water table is at that moment.
Is there any problem with doing this restrictor change?
My well was tested at 35 gpm when we bought in 1999. Last July our submersible started making noise like it was sucking in air...I have a 20 gpm flow restrictor after the sub and that is where I here the air sound ...it is intermittent....when the sub kicks on it may make that air noise for a moment then doesn't make the noise until the holding tank is almost full then noise until the float kicks it off. Sometimes the air noise goes during the entire tank fill...usually during the daytime...other neighbors are running sprinklers for alfalfa/ forage / hay.
I was hoping we would get enough rain to solve the noise I have, but our rain amount was not enough to date.
After this spring if the rain doesn't solve this for me I was thinking of changing my restrictor down to 15 or 10 gpm to see if this would help with the noise...my guess is the sub is pulling down enough to create a little whirlpool sucking in air intermittently depending on where the water table is at that moment.
Is there any problem with doing this restrictor change?
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