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All very interesting, thank you so much for the links, I am reading now.

Forgot to paste the link . . this is how I did it as an amateur As you can see I have no problems at all removing sand from the lower part of the pipe but after an hour or two the sand comes back to the previous level, more precisely it fills the lowest part of the 100 mm pipe for about 1 m...

Thank you for your input, it makes sense, perhaps the only reason why I was thinking of capping it at the bottom end is that, since the pipe fills up with sand up to the same level no matter what I do, perhaps with the cap I could make use of that extra meter of pipe as water reservoir to avoid...

Sorry, I thought the slot were implicit or how would the water get in . . Thanks for that, I shall obtain some finer gravel, however I'm still puzzled by the cap at the end of the bore, if I use one I loose 1 mt of depth (which is filled with sand anyway) but that could be gravel . . So . ...

Thanks, I'm aware of the slots size, my question is about cap or gravel at the bottom of the well ?

Hello everyone I’m new here and new to wells too, just successfully dug a 4.6mt bore hole for a submergible pump with compressed air and water having found very shallow water table. However, no matter how deep I go, after 3.6mt all I get is sand. I got the pipe deeper by 1 more meter (4.6)...