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<blockquote data-quote="TFX 186" data-source="post: 345669" data-attributes="member: 2289"><p>Speaking of water wells and oil wells...... I started having some issues with my water well 2 years ago. When I pumped the well hard it silted up so bad it plugged my house filters and I had to try pump my hydrant for days to try clear it up. It never really cleared up so I had to just limit my usage to little or nothing until it settled down. I had never had trouble with the well before and it's about 30 years old. Low and behold I ended up burning out the submersible pump and had to call a well guy to change it for me. I showed him the fine sand I had pumped out of it and the first question he asked is where did they drill the oil well around here. I told him about 6-7 miles west of me. He just shook his head. My well is almost 500' deep. Do any of you water/oil well guys have any info about this? Is it possible to mess up an aquifer drilling through it? Don't they use precautions of some kind when drilling oil wells so this doesn't happen? Is the old timer well driller just full of it?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="TFX 186, post: 345669, member: 2289"] Speaking of water wells and oil wells...... I started having some issues with my water well 2 years ago. When I pumped the well hard it silted up so bad it plugged my house filters and I had to try pump my hydrant for days to try clear it up. It never really cleared up so I had to just limit my usage to little or nothing until it settled down. I had never had trouble with the well before and it's about 30 years old. Low and behold I ended up burning out the submersible pump and had to call a well guy to change it for me. I showed him the fine sand I had pumped out of it and the first question he asked is where did they drill the oil well around here. I told him about 6-7 miles west of me. He just shook his head. My well is almost 500' deep. Do any of you water/oil well guys have any info about this? Is it possible to mess up an aquifer drilling through it? Don't they use precautions of some kind when drilling oil wells so this doesn't happen? Is the old timer well driller just full of it? [/QUOTE]

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