Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Diagram of well

This is all you can see of the well now.

Here's the diagram of the well with all the relevant statistics. The back fill has yet to be added. We hit water at 60 ft but needed to continue until about 180 ft to get a decent fill rate of 100 gallons/hr. The water levels off at about 30 ft below the surface. The reservoir of water is about 135 U.S. gallons or 620 litres.

The bentonite collar is necessary in the code to prevent infiltration from surface water because we are directly on the rock. Bentonite is a type of concrete that expands enormously when it comes into contact with water. It added a nifty $1700 to the cost of the well :-/ .

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