Pumping a Well to REMOVE SEDIMENT and Develop Crystal Clear Water
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- What do I do if my well water is dirty?
This video takes you on a well that showed no issues while drilling, but started pumping brown water with sediment in it. So we went back to the site and did a natural well development technique with the pump, pumping the well for 22 hours straight. The difference between start and finish are remarkable comparing it to bottled water from the store. This is a good tool to use as most open hole rock wells don't need this, but this particular case did. This customer has reported no issues since we completed this development.
Hi!! We just moved into a disused farm house and a lot of sediment (sand and iron) was coming out of our taps. But we pumped the well for 12 hours and it cleared right up! And they came and tested our water and it's great! Thank you so much, this video really saved our lives.
Next to your pressure tank, there should be a hose Spigot, it should be between where you’re well comes into the house and before your pressure tank. You can attach a garden hose and run it into your yard or your sump pump to pump your well.
Would have been helpful if you showed how you pumped the well.
He just means he let the pump run to the ground for 20 hours like how the city does when they flush a line after repairs. There is probably a spigot at the well head that he flowed from so it wasn't running all thru the house piping.
So the well development was pumping it out with the well pump? Man, I wish it was that easy where we drill wells.. Just did a 405ft overburden well with nothing but clay, glacier till and fine sand.. Finally hit a 30gpm sand seam, Still very dirty after 6 hours of air development. Onto the step pump. Cheers
Amazing information thank you 🙏.
I have the same problem with a well but haven’t ran it for 20 hours so will do that
I had to slow my water down with charcoal wraped sediment filter to solve problem or i had silt and some particles of sand but water clear in house , if no filter powdery and sand box time evan after well drilled deeper , after slowing water down some with filter it was clear good drinking water , nothing no better than nice clear drinkable well water .
Good Job
Thank you! Help me out alot we just purchased a new house and have a new well.
good to hear, glad you found our videos useful
Can I still run the water inside the house while its running outside?
@@gpmusiclover if you like you can, but that is up to you
Thanks again!
So I got a new well drilled and sentiment was coming out let it pump over night looked good in the morning now a week later tons of gravel came out . It’s been pumping now for over 24 hours and it’s less but the same amount of gravel/sand In every bucket so about. Quarter size amount sitting on the bottom of a gallon what should I do will this ever clear up?
Myrtle Beach in the house
So when you say you pumped it our for that many hours does that mean just letting it run constantly?
Could you do a video on how to clean your lines inside your house once they have sediment?
Whats the best sediment filter, the cartridge type, or? Is there one that can collect and be back flushed often?
Did you just let the pump run and have the water run onto the ground? Or filter and recirculate it? Our well is always pumping up orange sediment and we get tons of little black sediment in our faucets and even just straight into a glass of water if we don’t use a Zero water pitcher. Location is middle Ga
yes, we just let it run on the ground
Hi again from shady valley! The pump guys came a few days ago and put the pump in my well and if you remember it is an artesian well and the water coming out of the overflow turned to rust and looked like a wide stripe of blood running into my pond. After a short time it cleared back up but they said its iron! And they are coming back tomorrow to hook it into my house. They suggest to developed my well and run it a couple of weeks then get it tested! Any extra advice from you guys is deeply appreciated! Thanks so much!
I think you are right on track with doing what they recommend. Running your well is nothing but a good thing for it. It does sound like iron to me too though unfortunately, but nothing that can't be handled though. It sounds like you have a good company working for you! Thanks again for watching and tuning in.
I had my well pump up broken limestone bits and sediments smaller than my 5 micron filter that water stains very badly. Now I go through a filter every week. Last year a hoe ram broke limestone about 200 yards from my well. Hammered for a week and a half from 7am to about 8pm. I believe this broke up solidified sediment and contaminated my water. When the well was drilled 5 years ago to 80 feet it had crystal clean water. How do I hold the company responsible for my water problems that after a year is still bad?
not sure on that one, that is a bad situation there
I could use some advice. I have a shallow well with the pump on top and it's about 50 years old water has always been good and now it started pumping sand. What can I do about that?
When you ran the pump for 20 hours, was it on full force or just through a garden hose half open?
Good tips and comments too? But for iron, what’s the cheapest way to remove it? Cartridges of some sort, or is there a way of treating the water in a big settling tank?
What good is a well without crystal clear water?
How do I pump my well? Do I need a well company to do it? We keep finding what looks like sand clogging our taps, dishwasher, shower heads, washer machine. Will pumping the well fix that?
Do you have well service in great Toronto area of Canada? thanks
Question. I had a new well installed, they blew air down the well for about an hour. Before connecting to the house they never pumped the water out of the well, it’s been weeks and we still have dirty water, it’s clearing but now the shower water cartridges are not working right and the toilets aren’t either? It should have been lumped before connecting to the house?
@@NetsarimTheWatchman what if the well isn't new with the same issues?
@@NetsarimTheWatchman i live in nc my neighbor had a well drilled last year. How do I fix it??
@@NetsarimTheWatchman we have a new well (installed three weeks ago). We have not abandoned the original well yet. The water from new has a very fine sediment/sand/clay that clogs up the sprinklers. It is not hooked into house lines yet. Per well drilling company we have run the well for several 8-16 hrs a day for a couple weeks. Sediment still seen. They are now coming out to put a 2 in sleeve(?). I am concerned if there is a crack that needs repair (on a brand new well)- we are in for more troubles. Can you suggest anything? Maybe just keep running the well? We are in N Central Florida.
@@NetsarimTheWatchman thank you- I’m off to research spin down filters. We have an operational 2 inch well- but due to wanting to add on to the house, and also being told the 2 inch wells are hard to replace and we can’t chlorinate it- we opted to drill in new location. It’s a 4 inch well- but now the driller is talking about putting in a 2 inch sleeve and I’m concerned that we are going to affect the function of the new well. We’ve been running it for a few weeks/ maybe we just keep running it? Thank you again!
@@NetsarimTheWatchman again, I so appreciate your input!
Just had a new pump put in well here in nc. Lots of iron and orange coming out of faucets then looks clear until you fill up a glass so should i run water alot to try to clear it up or wait few more days to let settle its been 6 days so far thanks .
dang, 6 days is a while. typically a well with iron can get stirred up while pulling and replacing a pump but eventually will settle down through pumping and time from something not stirring the well up. I would run it some if you haven't already. That should help it.
Thanks buddy!!
We did the same thing and we pumped it for 2 days .. the water cleared up and then went dark again...
My well is probably 50+ years old. I don't think it was ever maintained well (pun...slightly intended). I was doing some work on the outside water yesterday and had the pump on recirculate. It is a surface pump, the water is about 8 feet below the well head and at least 75 foot deep (longest piece of kite string I had to check) and an 8" casing. We have added bleach in the past but since I recirculated yesterday (for about an hour) the water is full of red stuff. I am pretty sure it is rust as we put some in a glass, added bleach to no effect. I am afraid that it is rust from the casing.... any ideas?
I'm in Central Oklahoma. I replaced my submersible pump about 6 or 7 years ago. Every since then, I will get red clay silt in my water if I run my water house full blast. Everyday household use is fine, but if I open the outside spigot for more than like 10 or 15 minutes it turns red and clogs up my household filter. I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to turn on the outside spigot and let it run for at least 24 hours??
that is odd there, not sure if you have a screen in your well or not but you may have an issue with your screen
Before you build a house or buy land, know the water, shitty water, shitty house
Hi. I've run my brain ragged trying to figure out what to do. I'm really hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I am the buyer on a pending purchase on 37 acres in East Tennessee. The property had, at one point, a house on it. The purchase is contingent on the well being viable. I live close to Atlanta so I'm not there and know no one local. The real estate agent found the well location but the guts are missing, or stuck down where (who knows?). He and apparently a good ol' boy down the road figured out that there is 90' of water, not 90' deep but he said water itself. It has had a metal cap put on it. There are no county records of the well. All I can find out is that it's been over 10 years since anyone has resided on the property.
How do I go about flushing the well out, in order to test it? I'm sure there is bacteria and it will need to be shocked. There is no electricity and no pump. If there were a pump, I have a good portable generator and would figure out a way to flush it myself. There is no discernible driveway to get a large truck to the location, which is down a hill. I've typed every known configuration of words into google, google maps, youtube blah, blah, blah... the only information I can find is on homeguide.com which is more about what to do and what it might cost but not who to get to do it.
Now I'm not some city dweller, I grew up in West Virginia and when we moved to Georgia 35 years ago where we live was the sticks. I have no problems getting mud on me and doing back breaking work but this is outside my wheel house. I've got about 3 weeks until the closing date. This property is for my widowed mother who is partially disabled in one dwelling and myself in another dwelling. My father passed almost 10 years ago, now he was a jack-of-all trades and he taught me how to weld, operate heavy equipment, mechanics, do damn near every type of home repair imaginable and we had a well in WV but I was only 10 when we moved here and we've been on county water ever since. I helped when the natural spring face collapsed on the old family home place near Clendenin, digging, shoveling, trenching, placing a new cistern to catch how far back we had to dig into the mountainside to get to undisturbed water (that was fun). Argh, sorry! I hate rambling on. I don't suppose you know anyone in that area that could do the job. I just looked you up and no your not close, but being in the southeast there's always a chance yeah. From what I've read it seems a derrick truck would be needed, but I don't even know what that means.
Again my apologies for typing too much. You try to make an enquiry as brief as possible and it never works out. Any information you can provide me with, in any way, would be greatly appreciated.
where are you in East Tennessee? I may have some connections up there. You need to start by getting yourself or someone out there to drop a test pump in that well and pump it using a generator to see how much water it is producing. You may not need a boom truck if it isn't too deep to the water. If it is 200-300 feet to the water, then that is a different story. At this point (3 weeks until closing), you need to be less worried about flushing it out, and more worried about whether it is viable. Because all the well drillers in upstate SC and in western NC are super busy and backed up. So you would want to get on someone's list quickly if this well wasn't viable and you needed to have another one drilled.
@@WendellLeeWellServices Hi. Thank you so much for getting back to me so soon. The property is in Treadway, near Rogersville, Sneedville, Thorn Hill. If my realtor was correct in his statement it is 90' of water but, he might of meant 90' to water. He's a local guy who owns land and also has a farm so I assume he's dealt with wells to a degree. If you know of someone reliable and honest in the area I would be grateful. If not, where in the world do I get a 'test' pump? And should I ask my realtor shock the well now (he offered) so that when I can get there to get the pumping going it's already working on killing the bacteria? Again thank you for any help you can give me.
Just curious did this purchase work out for u… I live in Treadway
@@janet1278 The land purchase went through. However, we’ve hit a wall on trying to relocate. My mother has had a series of debilitating incidents and being within 15 min of a state of the art hospital is ideal.
I was able to get the original homesite and driveways cleared and ready to move our RV onto but even that hasn’t happened. I still haven’t had the well revamped and life seems to have different plans for us right now.
I’m hanging onto hope of relocating some day because the layout of the land is fantastic. But as it stands right now, it’s just sitting there. ☹
Hey man I was wondering if you could help me out I got a well made it's about 12 meters deep The water comes out clear but after you let it sit it turns brown it also smells like iron when it comes out of the well I was wondering is there any fix or if I can dig it deeper to clear it up or well pumping it out help I would really appreciate your help
sounds like iron to me as well. you could potentially go deeper and hit more water that wouldn't have iron in it, or you may hit water with iron in it. I would probably have that water tested and spend te money to treat the water you have. Especially with a shallow well and I'm assuming you have plenty of water as well.
thank you for the reply I'm going to try to go deeper and see if I can hit cleaner water and yeah there is a lot of water it never runs out but the iron in it clogs the filters that I have on the well I really appreciate the help thanks
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