Thank you for this. We have springs all over our property. We have a 6 ft deep hole in the ground seep well we have been fussing with for 3 years. One of those years we pulled from the creek. Sediment got in. I think we killed our pump, that's my best guess. My McGuyver Dad, who now lives across the state, just gets mad at me and won't tell me what to do and just says "Drill a well". Thousands of dollars. 15 thousand, if I remember right. And it might still be nasty iron water. This is a hundred year old house. They obviously survived with the existing well for forty of those years. But it is just a 6 ft hole in the ground with a line dropped in, dug into clay. So I don't know if the clay is falling in and/or we killed the pump. All's I know is that I can take a shower just fine and do dishes, but when I do laundry or water livestock, it seems to pull too much water at once to handle that and it drops pressure and then quits bc the automatic shut off switch kicks in (installed in the last three years to save the pump from dying from losing its prime constantly. And now... New development... It doesn't want to stay on when it does quit, even if the pressure gauge shows well above where the shut off switch would activate. It struggles to raise the pressure in the pressure tank. I have to engage the secondary pump (pulls from the creek for irrigation, grandfathered in w the property deed) to help it build pressure. The main pump will big down intermittently, gauge needle dips down, then pops back up, as it struggles and makes "crunchy" noises inside the pump. Ten bucks says that's sediment from the creek, just like I said would happen. New pump is a grand or two. Btw, we did have a screen wrapped around the intake (what the last owners did and we didn't mess w that- they were old farmers and we figured they made it work so don't change anything). Also installed a fine mesh, removable sediment filter on the output of the pump in between pump and the house to keep sediment out of the house pipes and fixtures. That filter hasn't shown anything but clear, clean water since switching off the creek and back to the well (we thought at the time in summer we were running the well dry doing laundry) . So w this recent new problem, I took out the filter to see what the pump would do and got one load of lau dry before the thing quit again. Went and checked the well and it's absolutely full. The problem now is that it pulls tooich water at once for the pump to keep up with, drops pressure, automatic shut off switch engages, and it quits. And I run down the hill to turn the pump back on and ha e to hold that switch on and ( reprime ?) it w the secondary pump helping. Then... One more load of laundry. I'm about to do laundry in the tub. I'm getting desperate. Lol So we have a lot of factors going on. This system w the spring box to catch the sediment looks like something I have looked at before (and argued w hubs about, but he has just been replacing plumbing part after plumbing part) and I told him the sediment would kill that pump. So this option looks like a cleaner, less maintenance option. We do shock our well with Clorox regularily, but it is still an open hole in the ground with a little wooden (box? house?) on top of it to keep people/animals from falling in. Most definitely, surface water can still get in. That was an aspect of safe water that I was completely unaware of before watching yours and others spring videos. Luckily, I grew up drinking all sorts of supposedly unhealthy water sources. Lol I probly have a super great immune system. Lol. But we have bought water to drink for three years bc of the iron taste and our water difficulties. Yesterday, I walked the water line where water springs up below and around our existing well, and marked it. There are plenty of spongy areas in the ground and that area is wet all year, but I found one pooled up area under a downed tree root like yours here, and I believe I will start there and see what kind of flow we get. This looks like a good option to set up seperate from the existing well so we don't have to unhook anything and lose the little bit of water function we've got. Would love to post videos on it, but have been advised to keep that one off the internet. Blue states tend to be pickier about those types of things. Sorry I wrote a book. Was kinda hoping somebody smarter than me could maybe advise about the pump maybe. Since my Dad seems to not want to input He gets tired of the mickey mousing we do, too. Has his own water issues at his place.
Thank you for this. We have springs all over our property. We have a 6 ft deep hole in the ground seep well we have been fussing with for 3 years. One of those years we pulled from the creek. Sediment got in. I think we killed our pump, that's my best guess. My McGuyver Dad, who now lives across the state, just gets mad at me and won't tell me what to do and just says "Drill a well". Thousands of dollars. 15 thousand, if I remember right. And it might still be nasty iron water. This is a hundred year old house. They obviously survived with the existing well for forty of those years. But it is just a 6 ft hole in the ground with a line dropped in, dug into clay. So I don't know if the clay is falling in and/or we killed the pump. All's I know is that I can take a shower just fine and do dishes, but when I do laundry or water livestock, it seems to pull too much water at once to handle that and it drops pressure and then quits bc the automatic shut off switch kicks in (installed in the last three years to save the pump from dying from losing its prime constantly.
And now... New development... It doesn't want to stay on when it does quit, even if the pressure gauge shows well above where the shut off switch would activate. It struggles to raise the pressure in the pressure tank. I have to engage the secondary pump (pulls from the creek for irrigation, grandfathered in w the property deed) to help it build pressure. The main pump will big down intermittently, gauge needle dips down, then pops back up, as it struggles and makes "crunchy" noises inside the pump. Ten bucks says that's sediment from the creek, just like I said would happen. New pump is a grand or two. Btw, we did have a screen wrapped around the intake (what the last owners did and we didn't mess w that- they were old farmers and we figured they made it work so don't change anything). Also installed a fine mesh, removable sediment filter on the output of the pump in between pump and the house to keep sediment out of the house pipes and fixtures. That filter hasn't shown anything but clear, clean water since switching off the creek and back to the well (we thought at the time in summer we were running the well dry doing laundry) . So w this recent new problem, I took out the filter to see what the pump would do and got one load of lau dry before the thing quit again. Went and checked the well and it's absolutely full. The problem now is that it pulls tooich water at once for the pump to keep up with, drops pressure, automatic shut off switch engages, and it quits. And I run down the hill to turn the pump back on and ha e to hold that switch on and ( reprime ?) it w the secondary pump helping. Then... One more load of laundry. I'm about to do laundry in the tub. I'm getting desperate. Lol
So we have a lot of factors going on. This system w the spring box to catch the sediment looks like something I have looked at before (and argued w hubs about, but he has just been replacing plumbing part after plumbing part) and I told him the sediment would kill that pump. So this option looks like a cleaner, less maintenance option. We do shock our well with Clorox regularily, but it is still an open hole in the ground with a little wooden (box? house?) on top of it to keep people/animals from falling in. Most definitely, surface water can still get in. That was an aspect of safe water that I was completely unaware of before watching yours and others spring videos. Luckily, I grew up drinking all sorts of supposedly unhealthy water sources. Lol I probly have a super great immune system. Lol. But we have bought water to drink for three years bc of the iron taste and our water difficulties.
Yesterday, I walked the water line where water springs up below and around our existing well, and marked it. There are plenty of spongy areas in the ground and that area is wet all year, but I found one pooled up area under a downed tree root like yours here, and I believe I will start there and see what kind of flow we get. This looks like a good option to set up seperate from the existing well so we don't have to unhook anything and lose the little bit of water function we've got. Would love to post videos on it, but have been advised to keep that one off the internet. Blue states tend to be pickier about those types of things.
Sorry I wrote a book. Was kinda hoping somebody smarter than me could maybe advise about the pump maybe. Since my Dad seems to not want to input
He gets tired of the mickey mousing we do, too. Has his own water issues at his place.
Beautiful in New Jersey and in pennsylvania you can collect spring water in the mountain areas. Plus it comes from the Adirondacks.
thanks for the video. i have watched engineer 775's video also about spring development. I cant wait to have my own. you did a great job there buddy.
Holy crap. Watching this makes me exhausted.
Good video. Thanks for sharing.
You said in your video that moving water can’t freeze have you ever seen a Niagara Falls about January February and March
Nice job.
Everything great except the focus in places!
thanks. great video.
Thanks