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Old 02-22-2009, 09:29 PM   #1
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Default Thomas Well - Yes

We used Thomas Well for Water system. We had a unique system since it supplied two houses and had to be drained for the season. We have a valve shutoff that will drain lines from the well and house when turned. Its buried 4 foot down. We got a number of quotes and they were all within $1000 of each other. We chose Thomas because of the unique syatem and he had answers right off the top of his head. It cost us $2000 more than the quote but that was due to additional deep(531'). We didn't have much of a choice of moving. The well truck had all it could handle since it was under power lines.
On the water from the lake. My friend pumped from the lake during the season. In the winter he disconnects the pump and uses a sump pump and connects to the line to the house. Drains completely when all done using. When I went to a well I left my line to the lake. I was going to do the same thing and put a separate faucet at the camp. The camp is uphill from the lake, gets old fast hauling.

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Old 02-23-2009, 08:50 AM   #2
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"...In the winter he disconnects the pump and uses a sump pump and connects to the line to the house..."
My sump pump will only raise water to about nine feet elevation. What might I be doing wrong?

This year, I plan to prime my lakewater system by running a garden hose to the lake. The hose will be connected to a hose "bib" (faucet) I installed in the main waterline two feet below the lake's surface.

The "sump pump end" will be from a 6-gallon bucket of water on the front porch. Theoretically, this combination will force the bucket's six gallons of water into the 1" waterline at the lake level and prime the entire waterline up to the house pump: a "lift" of about 30 feet.

In previous years, the three-gallon filling process has taken two hours of constant babysitting.

(Of course, the house pump will be open at the filling plug to reduce back pressure and to drain the excess).
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Old 02-23-2009, 09:25 AM   #3
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We used James Gray in 2008. Solid work. 500 foot well was about 6k, I think. Once the house was complete, though, we needed a water softener because lakes region drilled wells are notorious for hard water (tough to lather) and iron content (lot's of staining). Good luck.
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Old 02-23-2009, 12:58 PM   #4
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"No, I have no filter system and draw f.rom a depth of about six feet"

No filter system at all? Is that safe? I realize you don't cook with it but still doesn't sound very clean.
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Old 02-23-2009, 06:29 PM   #5
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Acres per Second: a 30-foot lift, on the suction side of a pump?? Sea level atmospheric pressure will push a column of water up only 33 feet into a complete vacuum. From that you have to subtract what little pressure you get from the lake's 504 feet elevation, plus the vapor pressure of the water at the lake temperature (less than a foot's worth).

Perhaps I don't understand your current situation regarding the house pump: does it actually pull water from the lake up 30 feet? If so, that's some good pump, I'd say.
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It's probably a "Duro" pump pushing all those extra feet.
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