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<blockquote data-quote="TFX 186" data-source="post: 345672" data-attributes="member: 2289"><p>Allen,</p><p>Thanks for the feedback. What I was talking about by pumping it hard is this. I have a hydrant just a little distance from the well head. The hydrant pumps wide open. I had a 3/4 hp pump in the well. I watered my garden with the hydrant. When I use the hydrant full out and not throttled down, it stirs the really fine sand really bad. I actually installed the filters about 2 years before any sand showed up. I had a water company install some treatment and it was suggested to also install a large home filter before the water hit anything in the house. No one around my area has a decent well. The old guys woudn't spend the money to dig deep enough to get water that wasn't coal vein water. Do you think I would be able to dig another well in my yard of the same depth and not have the real fine sand? The old timer well guy said that fine of sand can't be filtered or screened out in the casing? And yes you re correct, the average guy living in the country and having a well, knows very little about water wells and who to get to have a good chance of getting a decent well dug and finished. Usually, it's IF you can get someone to drill one or fix one. I don't see any chance of rural water for this household in my lifetime anyway.</p><p> PS for any of you that take your good water for granted, there are those of us that haul water or will be hauling water soon. Maybe after the government is done making sure all the reservations in ND have free water, the rest of us, farmers, ranchers and average Joes will get a shot at decent water. 3rd world problems in our backyard! Sorry for the rant.</p><p>Thanks Allen</p><p>Fish On!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TFX 186, post: 345672, member: 2289"] Allen, Thanks for the feedback. What I was talking about by pumping it hard is this. I have a hydrant just a little distance from the well head. The hydrant pumps wide open. I had a 3/4 hp pump in the well. I watered my garden with the hydrant. When I use the hydrant full out and not throttled down, it stirs the really fine sand really bad. I actually installed the filters about 2 years before any sand showed up. I had a water company install some treatment and it was suggested to also install a large home filter before the water hit anything in the house. No one around my area has a decent well. The old guys woudn't spend the money to dig deep enough to get water that wasn't coal vein water. Do you think I would be able to dig another well in my yard of the same depth and not have the real fine sand? The old timer well guy said that fine of sand can't be filtered or screened out in the casing? And yes you re correct, the average guy living in the country and having a well, knows very little about water wells and who to get to have a good chance of getting a decent well dug and finished. Usually, it's IF you can get someone to drill one or fix one. I don't see any chance of rural water for this household in my lifetime anyway. PS for any of you that take your good water for granted, there are those of us that haul water or will be hauling water soon. Maybe after the government is done making sure all the reservations in ND have free water, the rest of us, farmers, ranchers and average Joes will get a shot at decent water. 3rd world problems in our backyard! Sorry for the rant. Thanks Allen Fish On! [/QUOTE]
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