Hello everyone, First some background. I bought a foreclosed property. The plan is for my folks to retire there rather then convert my basement into an apartment.The bank sold it as vacant land. It has several structures and old trailer house on it and a well. The previous owner passed away. His kids lived there until the county sheriff's department evicted them. They trashed the trailer and the property: So far removed 5- 30 yard dumpsters of trash and replaced all the plumbing in the trailer (concrete and nails down the drains). The well pump died on Friday, and after much dithering decided instead of trying to fit a new submerged pump into a very, very jury rigged system (storage tank is a pressure tank from an army shower unit that looks like it rolled down a mountain) to just start over. So what we know about the well is rumors from folks who knew the old man. The well is between 250-350 ft, the pump is at 200, 225, or 300 depending on who remembers him putting it in, and he did it himself. I know it is over 140 feet because that is how much PVC we've pulled up before the lighting & rain put a stop to work. Hope to get the old pump out today. No idea how much water it actually puts out. Know that it has been supplying the trailer, out buildings... with water since the 1980's. The water pressure is crappy, except for the tub and forget running water in two places at once. Now this is where the fun starts. The well is nowhere near the trailer. In fact the well and tank is about 200 feet as the crow flies from the trailer and ~100 feet lower in elevation. Okay so I put in a new pump on flexible-poly line (pulling PVC is pissing me off) w/ a safety line. So after that do I put a storage tank by the well and put in a sending pump to run water up hill from the tank to the trailer and everything else? Or a pressure tank and hope like heck that the pressure tank can send water that far? Thank you for thoughts, ideas and help. I love diagrams-very visual person

Hi guys! I’m looking for some thoughts. We have a hand-dug shallow water well that’s about 60+ years old. It’s about 30’ deep and 4’ round in diameter. Water is pulled using a Teel 1.5hp Convertible Jet Pump with two pipes (push/pull/ejector in the pipes then foot valve). Water is stored in about 40 gallon galvanized steel tank, really old too but works just fine. We use the well to water our horses, twice daily. Each time we use about 70 gallons. The Teel pump is about 12 years old and I can hear the humming of a bearing going out...time for a change. ---------------- Two questions: First, for the past 6 months or so the water tank has been water logged. It holds air just fine, but I have not pumped any air into it – because I don’t see anything wrong with the pump kicking on and running continuously to replenish the 70 gallons. With the way we use the water, clearly the water tank is depleted two times over, so I don’t see how putting some pressure in it will benefit the pump. In fact, it would seem detrimental if the pump cycled on/off several times. Am I missing something? Or, for the manner in which we are using the water (70 gallons in about 15 minutes), the water logged tank is probably more efficient? Second question. I’m not sure why the pump was set up the way it was. A 1.5hp pump with a deep well configuration, but on a shallow water well. I’m referring to the two-pipe setup, 1.25” pull, 1” push with the ejector in the pipe about half way down (12-15’), followed by a foot valve on the bottom. Don’t get me wrong, works just fine, but with the efficiency of pumps these days, I’m wondering if the 1.5 hp pump and the deep well config is overkill. I was thinking about switching to one of those ¾ hp pumps with a small 6 gallon tank attached below setups, with a single pipe and foot valve only. My thought is - it’s fine if the pumps runs the entire 15 or so minutes we are watering, the current setup already does that. Water storage is not a goal and depleting 70 gallons at a time would require a huge tank. Thus, why I’m wondering if the current system is overkill considering the manner in which we use the system. I’ve compared GPM ratings and on paper, a ¾ HP should be efficient, I think, lol. :confused: So what do you think, would a ¾ hp, no storage tank (or very small tank) system work? Thanks in advance :)