The Well

We have 2 wells on the property.  One has been broken for a couple years.  It is an expense fix, we haven’t wanted to deal with.  This summer our big well quit working.  We need this well.  Our rental house gets all it’s water from the well and we use it to fill the pond.  We called out a local well repair company to fix it.  We discovered that the electric problems we have been having at our tenants house.  We want to continue improving the property so Darling Husband decided we should buy a bigger pump.  They were very busy and the pump we needed was in another state so bought 500 feet of hoses, we attached a hose to city water and ran the hose up to the water tank at the top of the property.  For 2 ½ weeks we gave our tenant water this way. 

The day the pump was repaired was the hottest weekend of the year, our pond was dangerously low.   Even with the aeration putting air in the water we were worried about having the fish die off.  

We started pumping water into the pond and ran the pump for 30 hours straight – we pumped the well dry.  We had never had problems with the well going dry before!  We contacted the well company and they informed us because of the long drought we have been in the water table is very low and a lot of people are burning up their well pumps by pumping their wells dry. 

Our poor tenants had been having water and electric problems for 2 months and now after spending all this money we did not have a secure water supply for the tenants.  So we decided to hook up our tenants to city water.  Our water bill has gone up we are using the well to fill up the pond about 20 hours a week a few times we have pumped the well dry but it is filled up again

a few days later.