Up state New York lake house owner with a well 240 ft down. The ground is shale and clay based. The lake is about 250 ft away from house. Well was pounded in the year 2000. 230 ft the pounder ran out of equipment at that depth so I had to have it hydro fracked and have had water. Many of my neighbors lakeside have wells 350ft plus and have methane, as well as the usual colors orange, black etc... Sense then the home next to me has been rebuilt and drilled a well in 2010. We noticed a water shortage and started adding water to our well from a lake pump I use to water the lawn with and it works great in the warm months. A couple weeks ago the well pump went and we had another one installed with a pumptec box which shuts off the pump the second it senses no water. Seems like the well isn't refilling after it drains down. We ran it out of water last night and 8 hours later there is no water in the well. I've spoken to a few people with well experience and drilling a new well isn't really the best idea, might have the same problem. How can I open up the vanes in the current well? I was ready to try dried ice, but I have 20 feet if casing to worry about, right? Ideas please?

I left the water running out side (0700) and forgot about it. went to take a shower at 530 pm and no water. I checked the beaker to the well pump and it was still on when i went to the well the pressure was at 0. I pushed the over ride button on the blue box on the top of the well pump in the ground at comes on for abut 5 sec and shuts off. did I loose my prime or burn up my pump?:wall: