On 9/8/2012 9:33 AM, Red wrote:
On Sep 8, 7:46 am, "
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The well drilling company is not going to know that information
unless they are the ONLY company in your entire area and
install and maintain ALL of the wells...

Assuming, of course, that they are complete idiots and that have no clue
what the competition is up to.

LOL. Another Evan classic. It would take a hell of a lot of new
wells
in an area for that to be the cause of the drop in water of 140 ft in
4 years. Or some MAJOR new wells, ie municipal ones. In my
world, the well drillers would know if that was the cause. After all,
it's their business. At least the well drillers I'd be dealing with.
Also, typically they service more than one well and if the water
table has dropped 140 ft in an area, they would be getting a lot
of calls for the same thing.



Sounds like a trip to your local water board or resources
authority is in order so you can inquire about such recent
developments and report your findings of a 140' drop in
the water level of your well in four years time... Someone
else may have sunk a deep well causing your problem or
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In my world, someone else drilling a new well doesn't cause
a 140 ft drop in my well. Unless maybe the well is right next door
and is a major municipal one. In which case you would think
you would know it went in. Asking neighbors who have similar
wells if they have any problems would be a good idea.

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+1
In my world my aquafer has a refresh rate of 1.5 million gallons per
day. If the OP's well did drop that much in that length of time I
would guess his well is either not in an aquafer or there was a major
ground fault event, which would be well known to all who use it.


I know of a few instances where folks had to have wells re drilled
because the first one did not access an adequate aquifer.