The Best Method For Drilling Water Wells With PVC Pipe

| Thursday, January 23, 2014
By Judy Sullivan


Few items are as critical to maintaining life as potable water. While there is a good deal of this naturally occurring resource on the earth, many fresh aquifers can only be found deep underground. This is the reason why drilling water wells has become so critical all over the world to help furnish this resource to everyone so they can live and flourish.

What most people fail to realize is that generally there are many aquifers full of this fresh resource right below them. Simple wells are often about 60 and 70 feet down, while a shallow well goes about 30 feet down. Going this depth is fairly simple using regular PVC pipe, a garden hose and some hard work to drill it down.

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 hole has been dug and cleaned out it will require some form of well screening before it is a serviceable well. These screens will stop it from filling up and prevent rocks and dirt from going up the pipe line. These are generally bought in a home improvement store or you can make one by cutting diagonal slats into 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe and wrapping it tightly inside burlap cloth.

The hole should also be capped off to prevent the aquifer from any possible contamination from outside contaminant sources. Generally, this is completed by filling in around your pipe with pea gravel or sand to around 5 feet from the surface. This remaining 5 feet is filled with concrete or a mortar based slurry which seals it and forms a small service pad for any pump to rest on.

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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