Have your own well within city limits?

[Gd999]

Our well is a "bored" well 24" dia and 24 ft deep put in last March and our water is fine and plenty of it. We got a driller that has done quite a few wells in our area and he told us before he started just about how deep it would be and how deep to hit water. He was very close on both accounts with our area being known for a good water table.
Talk to someone with experience in your area and they may be able to give a fair estimate of finding water. But it is pretty much impossible to be sure untill you have a very expensive hole in the ground. I went to school with a guy that bought property in the country and IIRC sunk 5 wells and never got a good reliable water supply. His next door neighbor had natural springs on his property and more water than he could use. No tapping into the neighbors water because they hated each other. Some friends just had a 250 ft hole put in the ground and got a trickle of salt water. Jim.

I was going to have it installed in the backyard. But the truck is 12’ wide x 40’ long. The boom needs to be able to extend to 40’. I was going to install a wider car gate in my chain link that would fit the well truck. But the length of it and the boom has me thinking things won’t fit. So I’d have to put it in front yard on side of house.

 

[04FXSTS]

I will try posting a couple pictures. Jim.

 

[04FXSTS]

I only have figured out posting one picture per post, the one above is dropping the dirt out of the bucket. This one is a shot of the rig.

 

[indyblue]

I was always on well and septic up until this past summer when they ran sanitary sewers and made everyone tie in to it. We still have well water though, as they didn't run city water lines. They don't seem to have any problem billing me for my sewage disposal. I am guessing the grinder pump they put in probably has some kind of metering function.

I love my well water and hope to never have to get city water.

I live in Washington Township and only have a well, I like it.

But now I request fluoride treatments from the dentist since there’s none in the water.

my pump needed to be replaced a few years ago, I think I had C and J do it.

 

[04FXSTS]

Here is the bucket going back down to get some more dirt. The bucket is about 36" in diameter. You can see what my yard looked like, brother it is a mess and these picts don't show the huge pile pile of dirt that came out of the hole.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I live in Washington Township and only have a well, I like it.

But now I request fluoride treatments from the dentist since there’s none in the water.

my pump needed to be replaced a few years ago, I think I had C and J do it.

C&J came out and replaced my pressure tank and re-did some of the piping and valves when I was having some issues last year. I was really happy with them.

 

[klausm]

we hand drove one for my dad so he could use it for his sprinkler and pool
the locals can usually tell you where the first water table is
usually a certified well driller has to go to the second vein and that is where it can get expensive

 

[Gd999]

Here is the bucket going back down to get some more dirt. The bucket is about 36" in diameter. You can see what my yard looked like, brother it is a mess and these picts don't show the huge pile pile of dirt that came out of the hole.

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Oh man. What a mess. Thanks for the pics.

 

[Gd999]

I’m close to the white river. I guess if worse came to worse, I could bike down there with a big water tank, fill it, then come back and filter it heavily.