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Originally Posted by lawn psycho
Resale. Look at how this is influencing your decision to buy the house. The next owner will do the same and some will walk away. Something to think about.
I would not buy a house with a dug well as it's too risky for my taste.
As for depth in areas for drilled wells, jmen is dead-on. I co-worker of mine built on Sebago. The drilled to 750 ft on a lakefront lot and we essentially bone dry to that point and had to hydro the well to get only 3-4 GPM.
His neighbors well is at 325 feet with 10 GPM. You just never know when drilling a well BUT, if you buy that house I would get a drilled well as part of the deal.
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And my sister drilled a well at our former lakeside camp in southern NH and ended up with sulphur smelling nasty water. The old dug well had worked fine for 40 years. As I said before, my shallow dug well has beautiful water while my neighbor drilled a well 100 feet from my well and is not happy with the quality.
I would never write off buying a house just because it has a dug well. You might find more problems and expense with a drilled one.