How much does it cost to make a groundwater well? to maintain it?

Question

If you can back it up with sources, please do.

Answer 1

If you are talking about ground water, I take that to mean a relatively shallow well, not a drilled one.  The most common way is a driven point well.  You can do the labor yourself and the cost of the point and pipe usually would run around 200 to 300 dollars.  Then you need to dig a well house below the freezing level of the soil and buy a pump.  The whole thing should run you around $500.  The other option is to dig the well which would cost you nothing except a lot of labor.  You would need to install a pump if you don't want to haul the water up with a bucket.

Answer 2

i think around 6 or 70 hundred

Answer 3

Unless you have a neighbor with a well, there is no telling how deep you have to go to hit water.  An earlier poster gave what he paid for 100 ft well.  Out where we live, it's 800 feet or more, and the price goes up sharply with increasing depth.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

one meeelion dollars

Answer 6

Expect to pay at least $60 for a Drive Well Point and $300 for a pump.  If you're not doing it, I don't know how much it cost to hire someone for labor.  As for upkeep, if it's going to be used as a potable source initially you have to determine dissolved minerals of the water, if its high on something or if it has pathogens more likely you're going to have to spend a little extra to treat the water.

Answer 7

I have had 4 wells drilled in the past 5 years.

first cost about 5500

second shortly after and easier digging cost about 5200

next much deeper well cost 18000

last cost about 6200 and was close to the depth of the first two

So it depends on the depth and on the difficulty of the drilling.

to date none of them have required maintenance.

about 18 to 22 per foot

Answer 8

That  depends on the depth of the water table and what you have to drill through.

Answer 9

I had a 100 foot well done a year ago drilled with a 5 inch casing installed it cost $6000. It cost another $2500 to install the pump trench it to the house  and run the power.

Answer 10

You usually pay by the foot with a minimum. Check with drillers in your area.

Lots and lots of variables.

Here in the Sierra Nevada foothills it is running about $20/foot with a 100 foot minimum. That is for a 6" diameter.

Pump, pipe, wiring, tanks etc. on top of that. After you get the gpm you think will suit your needs, take it down another hundred.

Always case the bore, even in rock.