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Filling a well with concrete?

Chadwick said:
Not watching video.
So not sure as to what exactly they are doing this for.

A for instance for us..
Abandoning a well new or old... this is done.. we also dig 18' feet out and cap below ground.. it gets a gravel pack then a seal.

Hope this helps:usa:
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If it's west coast it's probably an illegal well. Lol
 
Deuce 40s said:
Pretty normal to abandon a well with concrete. When we're abandoning them, we fill with grout from the bottom up though. Pump it down with pipe 5' at a time. Seals artesian flow too.
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Same. Had to do it dozens of times for abandoned wells within highway ROWs. Here we have to chlorinate them first to prevent any bacteria contamination from getting pushed back in to the aquifer when they're grouted. Stick a ~1" poly pipe down to the bottom to let any air escape and then fill them full of grout or concrete.
 
Steve300xcw said:
"we abandon a old water well. Being too close to the new septic system, the customer was forced to drill a new well & fill in the old well with cement"
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We drilled a well, against our advice right next to a customer's house. When we set the concrete forms up the customer decided that he didn't like it :homer:. So we abandoned that well and drilled him a new one:laughing:.
 
I just read the description. Didnt care enough to watch the vid, but that sounds about right:laughing:
 
Chadwick said:
Not watching video.
So not sure as to what exactly they are doing this for.

A for instance for us..
Abandoning a well new or old... this is done.. we also dig 18' feet out and cap below ground.. it gets a gravel pack then a seal.

Hope this helps:usa:
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Yea let's go unload 3 mixers onto the ground.....
WHY????
 
Wonder how close to the well is too close?

Mine is like 10ft too close to the septic field. I think 90ft away and supposed to be 100.

Another half assed shit job by the previous owner.
Like putting fucking 29 gauge metal.for a roof with 24" oc purlins
Supposed to be 24 gauge and 16" purlins. So there's another 10 grand.
 
didn't watch the vid

If I were to spend the ~100k to have a well dug without a permit, the county would absolutely LOVE to force me to concrete it.
 
blakes said:
didn't watch the vid

If I were to spend the ~100k to have a well dug without a permit, the county would absolutely LOVE to force me to concrete it.
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Permit for a well? That in California where you can't fart without permission and a fee?

No permits needed here. Septic is supposed to go through AK DEC, but very common people just put them in without "permission". There's no enforcement action on doing that.

A headache when selling though, as most lenders require proof of the DEC filing.
Mine wasn't permitted and caused Wells Fart and Go to not do a mortgage. Local lender was fine with it though.

I plan to dig it up, move the field and file the permit.
Hopefully not surprises, but they used a 2000 gallon tank for a shop toilet and shower 🤯
 
Deuce 40s said:
Not only permits, but the guy drilling the well must be licensed with the state. A drinking well in my area costs $6-8k.
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Now I'm thinking up ways to cobble together something that fits on a SSQA plate and costs around $2k. :laughing:
 
#1 question here. Who's to say the well wasn't dug before regulations existed? I have one myself on my property drilled back in the 50's I'm keeping as a backup but it's only like 80'. Doubt it would suffice. But it's capped and has no way to contaminate that I see? I'm not going to fill it with concrete anytime soon.

To me digging a well is kinda like pricing propane...:homer: And falls back to that EPA / politics thing that differs hugely from county to county, state to state. One county has regs, permits and licenses required. But 1.5 hours away a well is just a pipe driven into the ground.

But the same technique applies to abandoning storm drainage. That's one thing that's uniform everywhere around here. Has to be either removed or filled with concrete. 9 times out of 10 it's cheaper, faster and easier to just fill it.
 
Here4memes said:
Who's to say the well wasn't dug before regulations existed?
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Nobody, but a pvc cased well probably wasn't drilled in the 50s, maybe 70s before permitting was popular.
What happened in the video was the septic guys had to submit a plot plan to the county and they could see the wells location. Septic guys or well drillers don't want to be responsible "illegally" installing a well, especially if it means that they may have to replace it for free.
 
M92PV4U said:
Around here.
50' from septic tank
100' from leach field
100' from canal, drain ditch
100' from close animal confinement (with manure on the ground)
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I don't think mine would pass, its in the shed in the red circle, right in the middle of the cowyards :homer:

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M92PV4U said:
Around here.
50' from septic tank
100' from leach field
100' from canal, drain ditch
100' from close animal confinement (with manure on the ground)
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Same. My leach field is only ~90ft.
 
Deuce 40s said:
Not only permits, but the guy drilling the well must be licensed with the state. A drinking well in my area costs $6-8k.
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No permit needed here, but we must pay our $1000 tax to the county so they can "log" that we are putting a well in and supposedly monitor the aquifer condition. Nevermind that they dont need to know how much water the well produces or how much we consume to do that, they just need $1000.

The driller must be licensed with the Department of Ecology.

Our well to 180ft was $15k.
 
Alpine4x4 said:
No permit needed here, but we must pay our $1000 tax to the county so they can "log" that we are putting a well in and supposedly monitor the aquifer condition. Nevermind that they dont need to know how much water the well produces or how much we consume to do that, they just need $1000.

The driller must be licensed with the Department of Ecology.

Our well to 180ft was $15k.
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That's pretty much what the permit covers here, and about the same price.
 
if i were to drill an Edwards aquifer well at my ranch, its 1650 ft to hit it. recently heard someone tell me going rate is $38 a foot to drill. Looking at close to $63,000 for that well and thats not the extra for pump or solar or electricity.

BTW, the well at my house is 720'. its awesome and is really on no one's radar. wish i could drill another one and put a hand pump on it for SHTF type stuff.

edit: but yes, we cut and cap wells all the time. filling them all the way up seems overkill but cutting off 6 feet below grade and pouring a concrete cap/plug is standard procedure here.
 
Texas97 said:
edit: but yes, we cut and cap wells all the time. filling them all the way up seems overkill but cutting off 6 feet below grade and pouring a concrete cap/plug is standard procedure here.
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We typically cut them off below grade.
 
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