This past weekend the real work started. Having struck water, it was now a matter of being able to pump that water. Shallow well pumps will only lift water 26 feet where I am located in the world. I am not sure of the exact math involved, but it has to do with atmospheric pressure and sea level and apparently there is a limit you can lift water by vacuum, which the shallow well pump creates to move the water up the pipe, through the
impeller and out to the house.
Being that I have 31 feet of pipe in the ground to the top of the water, I had need to get down to the 25 foot level. This meant digging down several feet to the next coupling, or one pipe length which is 6 feet, and removing the pipe at that point and installing a check valve and
strt elbow along with the shallow well pump. Digging a hole roughly five feet wide and several feet deep is not an easy process. The top foot was soil and sand, but the lower part is all
hard pan. Not fun. Using a shovel and a bucket to haul dirt back up a ladder, I spent Sat. and Sun. digging to china. The pictures really
don't do the hole justice. The plan is I will be putting a three foot culvert up on end to serve as a well pit. At the bottom of the pit will be the pump. Tonight will be the test to see if the well will pump water.
This past weekend the real work started. Having struck water, it was now a matter of being able to pump that water. Shallow well pumps will only lift water 26 feet where I am located in the world. I am not sure of the exact math involved, but it has to do with atmospheric pressure and sea level and apparently there is a limit you can lift water by vacuum, which the shallow well pump creates to move the water up the pipe, through the impeller and out to the house.
Being that I have 31 feet of pipe in the ground to the top of the water, I had need to get down to the 25 foot level. This meant digging down several feet to the next coupling, or one pipe length which is 6 feet, and removing the pipe at that point and installing a check valve and strt elbow along with the shallow well pump. Digging a hole roughly five feet wide and several feet deep is not an easy process. The top foot was soil and sand, but the lower part is all hard pan. Not fun. Using a shovel and a bucket to haul dirt back up a ladder, I spent Sat. and Sun. digging to china. The pictures really don't do the hole justice. The plan is I will be putting a three foot culvert up on end to serve as a well pit. At the bottom of the pit will be the pump. Tonight will be the test to see if the well will pump water.
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