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Well because I've got the pipe but I don't have a trash pump I guess is the main reason

I'm not saying that the well rings could not have somehow separated but it seems unlikely to me. The bottom ring is sitting on rock and the top ring has not moved up or down since the well was dug. I did have to go down into the well a couple years later when the water table was high due to a...

I think I can come up with something to get some of the sand and mud out of the hole using the pvc pipe with a flapper. I know this is a touchy topic around here but I was hoping someone would have commented on adding a cycle stop valve to maybe help in the future. I've read so many views on...

I found one of those rigs here.........//stock.adobe.com/search?serie_id=248767020

3' ID

Im not sure if that is the technical name of this liner but that is what everyone around he has called it for years. It's concrete pipe almost like concrete drive way culvert only it's in shorter sections. It's around 3' around and the sections are like 3' long. It fits together one on top of...

It lined with sections of 3' concrete well curb. The sections are basically 3' around and 3' tall, they are toung and groove and they fit together and added as the well is dug deeper. The pump is a 4", 1/2 hp submersible pump plumed with 1" black polly pipe. We had a pretty good earthquake here...

I built my house in 1992 and although everybody tried to get me to install the new style septic system and a deep well. I'm kinda old school and went with the standard gravel/ drain tile septic system and the old shallow type well. That's what we used to call them anyway. Basically a hole is...