May Well Drilling

Well, it is finally here (sorry I couldn't help myself). Our well is being drilled! The drillers hit water at 120 feet and we have well over 16 gallons per minute. We couldn't have asked for more.

The pump is 70 feet down the well, and a 1 1/4" line runs into our shed where we have the controller and pressure tank installed. There is no storage tank with our system. The controller maintains a constant pressure set at 60 psi using a small pressure tank connected to the main line. There is a faucet inside the shed, a frost-free hydrant outside the shed, and a hookup for our future irrigation system. Since we have so much water, we bumped up the size of our pump to a model rated at 2HP. After the well was drilled, we dug the 40 or so foot trench from the well to the shed. Besides the drillers' truck getting stuck on our property, the process went smoothly overall and we are so excited to start planting now that we have water.

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