Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. Mark Twain
Steveabcdefg Anderson wrote:So, did a major fail luckily it is only pvc pipe no pump on the end we had a jet pump but there is a check valve so I'm having to pull up water filled pipe and I did manage to snag it and pull it up a couple of times but something always happened and it slipped back down. After the second time I sent down a probe to see how much further it was and that must have wedged itself between the pipe and now the whole freaking thing is stuck. It's never coming out now, but there is good news I am below the water table it's only 20' however I am surrounded by orange groves and would like to be as deep as humanly possible as I'm sure there is runoff. I sent some more pipe down to try and maybe bang it unstuck but what has happened is I think I am banging the whole thing into the silt and substrate. I ran another 20' of pipe down by just beating the thing, I guess my question is how far down below the water table is normal? It got dark on me but I'm hoping to go out there tomorrow to see how much further down I can go. This is just for a hobby farm but we would like to drink water while we're there. Thanks in advance, it's been a bad day -Steve
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John Daley Bendigo, Australia
The Enemy of progress is the hope of a perfect plan
Benefits of rainfall collection https://permies.com/t/88043/benefits-rainfall-collection
John Daley Bendigo, Australia
The Enemy of progress is the hope of a perfect plan
Benefits of rainfall collection https://permies.com/t/88043/benefits-rainfall-collection
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