all is well lol

[Roy in georgia]

talked to Mr. Chastain today he told me that what is happening is when you drill you blow air in as you drill and the sand stone will have shelves that the veins feed in water as he drills the shelves get the particles in them and as the water finally comes through the blockage it washes in the fines and thus causing the sand. He also told me he never hit granite and set the pump at 150 ft. because there was no need to set it further he hit water around 80 and with the 20 gpm it was filling faster than I could pump it out. I asked him how he measured gpm he said the easiest way was to have a 5 gal bucket and stopwatch to see how long it takes to fill it up. and with the new veins I think it may even be better. I looked at the filter when I got home and no visible change in the amount of buildup after washing clothes and baths yesterday evening. Randy told me to call him next time he may have to come pull the pump and put something on the end to help filter.

 

[noncompos]

Just out of curiousity, is his rig cable tool or rotary??

 

[Roy in georgia]

I have no Idea it was gone when I got here but I think it is rotary if my thinking is correct I have seen it before on jobs that we happen to be on at the same time.

 

[Mark-Mi]

Filling a bucket tells nothing.You must do a 4 hour pump test for my county.Mark

 

[T_Bone]

Hi Roy,

Sounds like the driller used rotary precussion drilling maybe using Quik-Foam as a drilling mud? It's just like a huge rotor hammer with air.

They used they same on my well last year. The driller went 340ft with a 6" bore in 1-1/2days. When he hit water at 180ft, it shot a stream of water 60ft out of a 10" discharge pipe and again when he hit another aquifer at 290ft. He was really pi$$ed when I said I'm stopping at 340ft of a planned 500ft'r cased bore.

We got 8gpm to 10gpm at 340ft by the bucket & watch method which is good for a temporary test. However that's not that accurate as the State requires 4hrs minimum testing.

How my driller turns this into a 25gpm well, is drilling a deeper bore as then he can pump the "tank"(bore length) and claim it's producing that much gpm. He did this to a couple of neighbors in the same aquifer.

You can find out a bunch about a well driller by calling your State? license regulator for well drillers. Mine asked me who was drilling the bore and then stated it's always good to get a contract in writing from a driller. You can read between the lines on that one. My driller complained heavily when I requested a pre-contact to the point I told him to remove his equipment if no contract. As it was it all turned out just great. The rig operator was very a educated and experienced young man.

The internet is also a great place to locate good info. Our State Dept of Water Quality website was full of info.

I would strongly urge you to educate yourself on well drilling from what you've said.

T_Bone

 

[Roy in georgia]

yours prob. was drilling by the foot mine was set price with guaranteed water. he came drilled then I had to wait a week before he had the bill ready.The price was what he told me and he put a filter canister on that wasn't agreed on in the beginning at no extra charge. He came highly recommended in my area owns just one company does alot of the work with his guys. The other well companies are all owned by the same people using different names in each county. when I talked to the inspector he seemed to be happy with my choice of driller and said if Randy told you the location of the well is good it will be I just have to come look and document its location.

 

[Dan-IA]

Drilling a deeper well doesn't really help all that much if the well driller is sealing the well casing with bentonite all the way down. He could drill through 3 aquifers and only the one at the bottom will yield you any water.