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Old 07-19-17, 10:51 PM
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New member with old well

I'm new here so here goes. I got an old well that has not been in service for 8 years. It's an 8 in casing. I pulled the old pump but honey bees had taken it over. The old pump had 170 foot of pipe but now I can only get down around 60 feet dropping a large weight. There are a lot of dead bees down there.
 

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Old 07-19-17, 11:09 PM
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Welcome to the forums.

Your title was a little unclear so I took care of it.

Are you trying to get this well back in service ?
Does the pump look to be in good shape ?
It will need to be tested after being unused for so long.

So tells us more.
 
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Old 07-20-17, 04:40 AM
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You will need to clean out all of the organic debris (bees' nest, etc.) down there. There are companies that specialize in this work.
 
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Old 07-20-17, 09:01 AM
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Yes I bought a new pump and new pipe but can't afford to have it cleaned. Hope I can do it myself
 
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The 170' depth of your casing presents some serious problems in cleaning it out because you can only "suck" water up by 2 gravities, or about 33' (at Sea Level) before it would rather vaporize (boil) at that low pressure (vacuum) instead of coming up the suction pipe as a liquid.

Somehow, you have to dislodge the debris and then position some kind of trash pump down at the bottom to "push" the water and debris up to the top.
 
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Old 07-22-17, 11:08 PM
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I will be running camera down the casing so I will know more in a couple days, then I will post again ty
 
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How did you conclude that the Well is 170' deep ?

When you pulled the old pump, did you also bring up about 145-150' of pipe ?

Here in Vermont, we have a registry at Public Health that contains the statistics on all wells drilled since the 1970s; but not all well drillers comply with the filing requirements.

The Registry contains data on the casing type, casing length, well depth, underlying soil/rock structure, static water level, original pump HP, pump depth, and GPM.

You're probably in a more sophisticated place, and should also have a similar registry; your profile doesn't indicate where you or this project are located.
 

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