Well Completion and Trial Run

The water well was finished up last week by Carolina Virginia Well Drilling, Inc.  Protocol is for the drillers to add chlorine to disinfect the water in case any bacteria were introduced during the installation.  Since our use of the well for the next couple of years (prior to the house being built) will primarily be for occasional camping trips and irrigation the installers hooked it up for running off a portable generator.  The well was drilled to a depth of 425 feet.  It is a 6 inch diameter casing and the pump was positioned 120 feet from the bottom.  The aquifer re-charges the well at a rate of two gallons per minute which is more than adequate for a typical three bedroom residence, but the depth allows for the well to hold about 400 gallons in the casing and another twenty gallons in the pressure tank. We ran the well continuously for about two hours straight out of a garden hose to clear out the chlorine taste.

20 gallon pressure tank

240 volt, 20 amp plug for generator connection

Homelite generator using propane as fuel.  This generator will run on three fuel types: gasoline, propane and NG.  To convert your generator buy the adapter kit from US Carbeuration