In ways, I wish I actually had a tide about which to speak. But I don’t. In fact, quite the opposite.

So the well guys showed up Friday morning to see about resolving the situation with low water pressure (and what was presumed to be an underwater leak). They started in right away and prepared to lift the old pump out to check for leaks. That was all fine and dandy, until the pump was found to only move about a foot before it was getting caught on something in the casing. That was presumed to be a build-up of stuff on the steel casing over many years’ time.

A long story short, while trying to remove the pump and get it past the obstruction, the pipe snapped at the coupling between it and the pump. A second attempt to use the electrical cord to dislodge the pump proved quickly unsuccessful as well.

So there we are, pulling up 80 feet of water pipe with no pump on the other end. It was pretty disgusting. So there’s a pump stuck about 87 feet below ground, under about 67 feet of water. What to do now?

We install a new pump (of course), this time at about 67 feet (above the old lodged pump) to see if there’s enough water getting by the old pump to still supply everything. After getting things lined up, installed, and wired up, we now have 20PSI, but the same problem (a leak).

At this point in time it’s pretty obvious — there’s no leak in the house, and since there’s all new PVC water line in the well (above the new pump), it’s pretty obvious there’s no leak there — there’s a leak underground between house and well. Just to make sure, they raised the pump about ten feet and isolated the pump to make sure the well side was functioning properly. Of course, it was…so we were back to the original problem.

So we have to dig in a new water line, which will be done sometime next week. I called to request locates for power and telephone, which should be done by 3:30PM on Tuesday. Hopefully they get done Monday. 🙂 The water line business shouldn’t really take terribly long, but it is an excavation process…so yeah… Good times. Wait, not really.

We’ll see how things shape up after the water line is fixed. If the well seems to still supply reasonably, it will mean that drilling a new well isn’t necessarily on the ‘near’ radar (1-2 years)…but likely no matter what the outcome, we’ll be looking at drilling a new well at some point in time. It all depends upon how long things seem to work acceptably.

So that was my Friday morning and midday. I went to work for a few hours in the afternoon and then Beth and I (with Kirstin) went to Erik & Jill’s for supper and good conversation. So it was a late night and I have in the last 24 hours developed quite a cold…so I didn’t post any pictures last night or make a post. The pictures are done now (for Friday), and this is obviously the post in place of Friday’s…

So until next time (presumably later today)…

“We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?”
– Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

–MZ