This is my first post. This is my problem: I have a water well that is 220 feet deep. The pump is at 150 feet. It is a 1/2 HP submersible pump. I replaced the pressure tank one year ago, the old one was waterlogged. The new one is an 86 gallon one with an empty pressure of 36 pounds. I checked this pressure today. I just replaced the 40/60 pressure switch today. These are the symptoms: Yesterday, the pressure would rise to about 40 pounds, the pump would shut off, the pressure would slowly fall to 38 pounds and then rapidly drop to 8 pounds, then slowly drift on down to 2 pounds before the pump would kick back on and repressure to 40 pounds. Then a repeat. This went on for most of yesterday. When I went to install a new pressure switch last night, the pressure was at 60 psi so I waited to see if maybe the problem had cleared itself. This morning, things were back to the same problem so I replaced the pressure switch. While replacing the switch, I cleaned out the pressure switch stand pipe with pipe cleaner; it was not very dirty, and seemed to be clear. Now, I have somewhat similar behavior of the pressure gauge with these additional observations. The pressure switch is remaining closed while the pump is shutting itself off and on through some other means. Today's cycles have been varied in nature with cut on pressures from 0 psi (with a 4 minute bottom time) to 35 psi. The cut off pressures have been from 40 psi to, at this moment, 60 psi. I suspect the current 60 psi cut off was due to the pressure switch but I have not looked. That's it. Thank you for your ideas.

Greetings, I am purchasing my first home on the eastern shore of MD, specifically in Dorchester county. The area is very well known for water problems. With that said, the home I am purchasing has water in the crawl space and has a large puddle of water about 20ft off the back right corner of the home. The rest of the yard has less standing water that is visible on top of the grass several days after rain events. The clay content in the soil is very high, I suspect this is why the water takes several days to seep into the ground. I considered a french drain; however, the land is very flat so it will be difficult to route the water 70 feet or so to the front of the yard and into the city drainage system. I was thinking about doing a web of connected dry wells from the back right corner of the yard (where the massive puddle is) out to the front and have the last pipe/french drain go into the city drainage. The water would essentially fill up the dry wells first and any overflow would then go into city drainage. Will this work? Will it alleviate the water in the rest of the yard and crawl space? Do you suggest I should add organic matter to the soil to increase water percolation? Again, I am a first time home buyer and very ignorant to cost effective solutions for a problem of this nature. Any thoughts, comments, suggestions are much appreciated. Thank you for your time. I attached a picture of the crawlspace after 2 major rain events and a major winter storm.