Hello everyone, Just wanted to let you all know how "well" I am doing. Just finished another shallow well today, so that makes two that I have driven so far. The first one was to supply water for my 1/4 acre fish pond. That one went 23 feet down, with about 13 feet of standing water, and it produces about 6 GPM. My fish are very happy now. This one we put down with a Jackhammer, as we had to go thru about 10-12 feet of clay! The other one that we just did today, We did it a little different, We used a hand auger with extentions that got us down to about 13 feet, this is where we hit the sand/water. Then we used a single 20 foot stick of 1 1/4 galvanized pipe with 3 foot drivepoint, and drove it down to 21 feet with only a fence post driver. Much easier to drive, and we didnt mess up the threads this time. so we have about 12 feet of standing water. I plan on using a 1/2 hp shallow well pump, and use this to supply my house, as this is very good tasting soft water, unlike my current deep well water that has a lot of "rust"/minerals, and just dont taste as good as the shallow well water. We did have the water tested by Health Dept, and it came out fine.. Couldnt a done it without ya! Well drilling is not my thing! Thanks very much to all of ya, for all the help, advise etc. Especially Vey and Jymmi, you guys are great! Thank you all, and have a Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roadhawg .

SepticGuy, what are your thoughts on additives? I have a very New home with a new septic tank (5 months old). We don't have a garbage disposal and we have strains on the kitchen sink. The most detrimental things we put in the septic tank are cleaners (mostly septic tank safe) except for bleach. Should I use additives? Have you heard of Septic Helper 2000?