Sunday, January 26, 2014

A Simple Method For Drilling Water Wells With Common PVC Pipe

By Judy Sullivan


Few things are as important to maintain life as water. Even though there is an abundance of this natural resource on the planet, much of the fresh aquifers lie deep underground. This is why drilling water wells is so critical in the world today to help provide this natural resource to people so they can stay alive and flourish.

What many people often do not realize is that many times there is an abundance of it right under their feet. Most wells are no more than 60-70 feet deep and a shallow well is often half this at 30 feet. At this depth it is reasonably easy to use common PVC pipe and some elbow grease and a garden hose to get down to it.

There is a real possibility that the water you discover at this depth is not safe enough to drink and use for preparing food. You should plan to have any well you are digging tested for possible contaminates or bacteria. This is vital even when it is installed by a professional driller.

The most used size of pipe is two inches however, when going deeper it is often better to use a three inch pipe to start off. Begin by making your bore hole with the two or three inch pipe. You do this by running the slurry down your two inch drilling pipe as you forcefully rotate it in a counter-clockwise and clockwise direction.

The displaced dirt and various other materials are washed from the hole with the flowing slurry down your pipe and out of the sides of your hole. If you notch out the bottom ring of the pipe to break apart the dirt this becomes even easier while twisting and turning your pipe. As you start going further down, work your pipe up and down than side to side and keep twisting it to prevent the shaft from collapsing.

After your pilot hole is dug out and cleaned up you need to have some sort of well screen for it to be serviceable. This stops the hole from filling in while stopping dirt and rocks from being drawn up the pipeline. These can be bought in many home improvement stores or one can easily be made by cutting slats in a piece of 1 1/2 inch pipe and wrapping it in burlap cloth.

This hole must be capped to stop contamination to your aquifer source by outside environmental contamination. This can be done by filling in around the pipeline with sand or gravel to roughly 5 feet from the very top. The top 5 feet get filled in with a mortar or concrete based slurry that seals it off and forms a pad for your pump to bolt to.

Even if this well will not have clean drinking water, it may still be useful for items like watering the garden or lawn, washing your clothes or filling different features and pools. Basically drilling water wells inside your back yard could reduce how much of this resource you use. This often saves households money while saving the planet's precious natural resources.




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