HomerS wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:42:14 -0700, Ook wrote:

Sweeet. I will look for one of these. The water depth in my well is
about 10 feet, but it drops to about 7 feet in the summer, and I don't
know how much more it drops with the pump running. Towards the end of
last summer, it started to suck air so I'm guessing the water level
dropped right down to the foot valve at that time. I can raise the
intake tube some, but at the risk of running dry towards the end of
summer.

On Jun 18, 11:03 am, Andrew Duane wrote:
There are "sand separators" for pumps that have to live in sandy
areas. I had one on my first house, very VERY cheap insurance.


Water tables are dropping just about everywhere. You may need to
choke down the rate you are pumping from the well.

I'm thinking the sand filter you install at the bottom of the well
will help, but you probably also need to crank down the flow rate.



Most of the time I'm only running 3 sprinklers at once, so I don't have
that much of a load on it. However, my pump is a new 3/4 horse pump, and
I imagine that it's at max flow when it's filling the pressure tank
sigh. I'll go for the sand filter and see how that works - but do they
make them for narrow well pipes? My well is a 2" pipe that goes about 20
feet into the ground. My inlet tube is a ~15 foot 1" pipe (because I
can't get a 1 1/4 foot valve to fit into the pipe, so I had to drop it
down to 1"), and I think the muck level is at about 17 feet or so. I
took a sounding last week, and I think it was water at 7 feet, bottom
mud at 17 feet. I'm guessing that the narrow pipe aggravates the sand
sucking problem. I wish I could pump out the mud and gunk at the bottom