Reply #43: this has been the problem this week [View All]

[Kali]

there is a standard 1.5 hp submersible in the well. The old green pump used to take water from both the well discharge and a storage tank above ground at the same time (a safety gimmick to prevent it running completely dry.) For some reason we can't quite figure out, (probably a slight change in the plumbing configuration) it won't work running both pumps at the same time, so this one is just getting water basically by gravity from a 6000 gallon storage that sits a few feet above it.

We originally had another submersible IN the storage tank but we burnt up three or four (under warranty) before somebody figured out the pressure fluctuations from the different places we were wanting to pump to, plus the too-frequent pipe breaks down low were causing the problem. And old well man set us up with the myers pump. It worked for 15+ years and will probably be rebuilt so we have second or a spare. If we had known the problems we were going to have with this new one the last week or so, we probably just would have went for the rebuild alone. As it was, the first one died before we had any rain and that well was the sole source of livestock water for an unknown time (turned out to be just a couple of days, but one can never know) So we were in a situation where a replacement was supposed to be the fastest solution. Ha!