Farm Well 101

I've spent more than a few hours the past two days learning about wells and jet pumps.  With all my years of construction and plumbing experience, I can freely admit that I've never worked with wells.  So of course I turned to the internet, YouTube, and technical service advisors at Goulds Water Technology and Locke Well and Pump Company.  We'll end up getting up a Goulds SJ10 Deep Water Jet Pump that will supply water to our two greenhouses, the garden, and our shop.  While we wait for it to arrive, we went out and began the work of clearing the well site.  

This is the well on the farm side of our property.  It has clearly been abandoned for some time.  The previous owners bypassed this well and ran pipes down to a submersible pump in the pond.  No longer needing this well, the previous owner also sold the pump off this well.  We plan to restore it using some of the money from Liliane's FFA grant.

This is the plumbing array that used to be connected to the well.

Well seal with 1.25" and 1" twin pipe system for a deep well jet pump.  

The pipes removed from the well.  From well seal to the foot valve it's 41 feet.

This is the existing foot valve and jet assembly.  We'll replace this with a Gould's Jet Assembly.

Inside the well.  17 feet 6 inches to the water from the well seal.  

My least favorite trees, sweetgums, growing over the concrete slab surrounding the well head.  

A GIANT sweetgum stump that has five different trunks (two showing).  This will be a real challenge to remove completely.

Hard to see in this picture, but this is another huge stump from an unknown tree.  Probably another sweetgum.  This will also be a challenge to remove completely.

At day's end, this what it all looks like.  We need a new deep water jet pump, a new well seal, new jet package, and a new and larger pressure tank.  We'll also have to redo all of the connections to the water lines out to the greenhouses and to the shop.  Then we have to put cinder blocks around the slab and a roof over the whole thing along with insulation.  Then a receptacle and light in order to provide heat in the winter to prevent freezing.