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new water well dry after only two months?

We recently built a house. The well digger hit water at 22 feet and continued until the well was 34 feet. He assured us that we would not have any water problems. Well, last week our well was so low, the pump was unable to pump water. We have had alot of rain lately so this really scares me. I was told that it is not so uncommon for a well to be bad during the first year. We did not have a written contract. I have contacted my States Attorney, he says I do not have a case to take legal action. Any suggestions out there as to what I should do. We hauled water the other day, and this is not something i want to get used to.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It is also possible that someone around your area has a deeper well than you. If that is the case, you'll have to dig deeper than their's. Because their's is deeper, they have access to more water than you. They may have used so much water that it drained it below the lowest point of your well. You really can't do anything about that except dig a deeper well. This is known as "The law of the deepest well". People in rural areas have this problem all the time due to a nearby city. The city well is obviously going to be much deeper than any residence can afford. Hope you get your problem resolved quick! Best of luck.

  • Doug R
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I am assuming that you haven't lost prime to the pump. Many times when a well is dug, it is difficult to ascertain how much volume that a well will supply. We had what our driller termed a slow well - in other words, it would not supply water fast enough to keep up with the pump. What we did, and it is still in place today, was to put a storage tank above ground to hold a reserve of water, and then place the original well pump on a timer, so that it would keep the storage tank topped off. That way at night the well had a chance to catch up, and we always had water for the house. I would suggest about a 500 gallon tank with a standard jet pump system. The other option is to drill deeper, but that doesn't necessarily get you additional water. The additional depth, however, could give you the additional volume you need provided that the well is still producing at some level of output.

  • 1 decade ago

    water at 22 feet wow I am not sure where you live but I was going to get a well one time and was told water is usually below 50 or 100 feet in most cases sometime 200 or 300 feet deep ... You could get your own low cost water drilling machine from a company I do not remember the name try a web search on drilling my own water well ? or drilling my own water well machines... you could make a real cheap one out of a lawn mower and just buy the pipe dig it deep er and see what happens...

  • 1 decade ago

    Call the guy back and ask him to dig deeper for you, explain what happened maybe the water is running out somewhere else or you have an underground leak in one of the pipes. Have you noticed water anywhere that doesn't look right?

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  • tjnw79
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It could be that was a bad spot. That there was water but it was in a "holding hole" and didn't have resources to refill it. Maybe you should have another well dug on the other side of the property.

  • 1 decade ago

    You really have no choice but to dig deeperand hope you don;t have to go to much further to hit good water

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