I have resently purchased a home with a well and septic. We have low water pressure. I know nothing about wells or pumps. I have a 2 story home. When the water is turned on first thing in the morning the pressure is OK for about 1 minute. This is the case for upstairs or downstairs. After about about 1 minute the water pressure is very low throughout the house. The water pressure on the tank reads 15 PSI and about 10 seconds after you turn on a faucet the pump turns on and the pressure goes up to around 40 PSI. the water pressure is low even when the pump is on. As soon as you turn off the faucet the pressure on the tank goes back down to around 15 PSI. At a friends suggestion, I tried raising the pressure in the tank. I pumped it up to 40 PSI and it went back down to 15 PSI on its own immediatley after I disconnect the air pump. Any suggestioins?

I presently have one 18" dia x 24" deep plastic sump pit with 3 pipes running into it servicing the exterior and interior foundation drainage pipe systems. The first pipe,which is approx 17" above the bottom of the pit, is for the exterior foundation drain pipe. This pipe is the source of probably 90% of the water. The second and third pipe are from the interior foundation drain piping. The bottom of these two pipes are 6" and 8" above the bottom of the pit. I presently have the float switch on the pump set to turn on when the water level gets to 6" in the pit, which is the bottom of the lowest pipe. With all the rain/snow we have had lately the pump is running about every 5 minutes. I also have a high water table or natural spring so the exterior pipe is constantly dripping water into the pit. If it doesn't rain for like a month, the pump will only run about once every 45 minutes. It seems to me when I was looking at pumps at Home Depot that the majority of the pumps have the float switch set to turn on when the water is about 12" deep. To acheive the 12" deep level in the present pit I would need to make the pit at least 6" deeper than what it presently is so that the pump will turn on before the water level gets above the lowest pipe and starts to backfill into it. Should I just make the present pit deeper. or should I install a second pit and extend the exterior foundation pipe over to it so that I will then have a separate sump pump and pit for the two pipe system(interior & exterior)? I've read in other posts about people discharging the water to the street. I have about 100 ft between the house and the street with a public sidewalk about 4' from the street, as well as the street curb/gutter. I would love to dischrage mine to the street, but do not sure how to overcome the sidewalk and the curb. Or should I just run the pipe out up to the sidewalk and let it discharge from there? How deep below the top of the ground should this pipe be ran. Getting the pipe to slope isn't a problem since the beginning of the discharge is higher than the street. Just concerned about grass growing and the possibility the pipe freezin in the winter.