Water well experts
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Topic: Water well experts
Posted By: DonDittmar
Subject: Water well experts
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 2:26pm
This old well was right at the end of my driveway and is a nightmare in the winter when trying to snowplow. Hit that with the tractor bucket and it will throw you off the seat. My question is, is there any reason I can’t cut that off 6” below the ground? I can stick a tape measure down 5 feet before I hit something solid. Not sure what the rod with the nut in the center is and yes the wire in the hole is dead.  ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 3:43pm
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I helped dad cut off a many of them...at least a few... so I say Yes you can cut it off. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 4:26pm
| If you cut below ground level it must be sealed to keep contaminates from entering the ground aquifer.i sealed mine with a couple bags of quickcrete. Than deregerster it at the county marked it as sealed with concrete. Cut it off and put gravle over it. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 5:15pm
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I'd cut at least 1 FOOT below grade, not 6", just to be really,really sure. Up here I'd have to do it on a Sunday and hide what I did otherwise 3 or 4 City departments get their noses bent outta shape. To decommision a well, I need permit($1000),eng cert($2000),pro con to do it($3000) so you can see why I wouldn't tell anyone... Anybody asks you're just removing an old defunct lamppost.... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 5:50pm
| When you put the concrete in hang a steel plate ring the size of the pipe a few feet down in the hole to catch the premix, mix it pretty dry too then once get a load in the pipe take a stick to make sure it settles tight dipping in and out of the plug, once a little has set up fill as far as you want. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2018 at 11:07pm
| Around here ya gotta have a certified person to close 1. County pays for closing it. I had 1 closed, mom had 3 closed on her farm. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 12:31am
| here the state pays us to close up old wells. $500 each! |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 12:20pm
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WHEW Jay, that's a little spendy! Just take a 1/4 stick of dynamite and drop it in the hole and RUN..... Tell the neighbors that the car/truck/tractor backfired.... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 12:27pm
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Around here some people used to set off dynamite in an old hand dug or bored well but usually after they dropped somebody in there that they didn't like. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 4:20pm
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I assume it’s capped off inside because I can run a tape measure down 5 feet then it hits something solid. Not sure what the fence post is on the inside??? ------------- Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity" 1968 D15D,1962 D19D Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 5:24pm
wish it was like that here!, I'm fixing to have to deal with one on my property that's dry most of the year and water isn't safe to drink. It shows both on the county plat and on surveys so I can't quite do the 1/4 stick of DuPont and then stone. Only a licensed driller can do a well, then the county has to inspect it. I was told to expect a couple of thousand to do it. I am told that property can't sell until dealt with. Georgia Law - https://dph.georgia.gov/sites/dph.georgia.gov/files/related_files/site_page/EnvHealthChemHazWellAbandonmentFS2015.pdf" rel="nofollow - https://dph.georgia.gov/sites/dph.georgia.gov/files/related_files/site_page/EnvHealthChemHazWellAbandonmentFS2015.pdf ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 8:28pm
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Seems now any drilled well is suppose to be regestered and located on property - to abandon one it needs to be grouted by a licensed well company . once abandoned then it is recorded in well logs with state . ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 9:10pm
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Boy OI couldn't wait to get to the bottom of this one ...........Dynomite? ------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 9:18pm
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But I have to go back out an werk on my precious Fords some more an I'll be back in to address this Dynomite isse. I'm gonna be chuckling for days. LOL ------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2018 at 9:54pm
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Well, (Pun intended) hurry back!! You're too far away for me to hear you chuckling and I am con------fused (hehehe) by you chuckling anyway. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |