Why don’t you blow it out with an air compressor? That’s how the well drillers developed my cased well after they drilled..... i think they call it air lifting..... might need to rig up an adapter for the top of the well but it sounds like a small well so it wouldn’t take much of a compressor to blow it out?
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We have a sand point well on the farm that is about 25 feet deep. Only ours was hand dug and laid up with limestone rocks. It's about 3 feet in diameter. We have only run it dry once in 55 years and that was to water a garden. We got rural water 10 years ago so we are debating on plugging it up but we might want it for livestock some day.
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I'd have thought air pressure too IMHO to blow the blockage back out where it came from. But I know nothing much about wells other than they are usually better water than any other provider provides..
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Why don’t you blow it out with an air compressor? That’s how the well drillers developed my cased well after they drilled..... i think they call it air lifting..... might need to rig up an adapter for the top of the well but it sounds like a small well so it wouldn’t take much of a compressor to blow it out?
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You essentially blow out the sand and fine debris around the point and it lets gravel settle back in. You need a pretty good compressor with a lot of volume so you can hit it hard.Think of a really big bead setter like you set tire beads on rim with.Sort of the same principle.
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I’ve used stainless steel bailers like those in the link to clean out monitoring wells. Not as easy as an air compressor, but it works. Just remember, when you attach the rope, if you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot!
I could make 5 gallon a minute work for me. If more is needed how about a pressure/holding tank, one could double as a sediment or treatment tank if necessary, be creative. You can always go back and do more development on the well "if needed".
I've worked with small sand points but only in the south. I've worked with a lot of larger Alaskan wells, even blown them out to increase volume.
I'm curious as to what your driller guy meant by cleaning out the point? Did he literally mean the slits/perforations may be clogged with debris from the drilling and needed cleaned or blown out? When my Alaskan well guy tells me we need to clean out the point he is referring to, pulling the screen, and blasting/flushing and pumping out a large cavity around the point.
I'd be happy with my five gpm well and call it done.
Always thought it was a load of bull, until I meet a driller, who did it and had an explanation I could barely understand, this old boy was know as the guy to find a good well, and it always worked.
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I could make 5 gallon a minute work for me. If more is needed how about a pressure/holding tank, one could double as a sediment or treatment tank if necessary, be creative. You can always go back and do more development on the well "if needed".
I've worked with small sand points but only in the south. I've worked with a lot of larger Alaskan wells, even blown them out to increase volume.
I'm curious as to what your driller guy meant by cleaning out the point? Did he literally mean the slits/perforations may be clogged with debris from the drilling and needed cleaned or blown out? When my Alaskan well guy tells me we need to clean out the point he is referring to, pulling the screen, and blasting/flushing and pumping out a large cavity around the point.
I'd be happy with my five gpm well and call it done.
Yes, that’s what he meant about cleaning it out, to create a pocket around the well point. I’m headed back out today to collect water samples to have it tested. Like you, I’m pretty happy with a 5 gallon per minute flow as long as the water stays clean.
