Is 1-3 feet of water at the bottom of a well enough to keep your household in plenty of water?

Question

mine is around 80 feet deep but only has 1-3 feet of water and I keep running out of water in my house, yet the pump is still running, so i cut off the breaker. I'm guessing my problem is that the well is not recovering fast enough.

Answer 1

How often have you had rain in the past 2 weeks? Your well is beginning to dry. Your best option at this point is to try to use bottled water from the store for drinking purposes and to simply not use the water in your house so much. So "yes" shut off the breaker because your pump is struggling right now just to suck on whatever small amount of water is in the well, right now that's only waisting electricity. This is going to sound somewhat gross but you will have to cut back on flushing the toilet for at least a little while or only when it gets "bad"(you will know when) and only take showers under 10mins long. If you don't have rain for sometime longer past this, then do what I said for about 4days to a week and the moister from the ground should begin to refill your well.

Answer 2

no, .......why do you have a well?

Answer 3

yeah it is, thats sufficient

Answer 4

Doesn't sound like enough. I might have my figures a bit wrong here but the principle stands. My well is 120 feet deep, and when they drilled it, they said that the 'static level', the level that the water naturally sits at unless you draw it down, is 40 feet below the ground. They said that each foot of well depth contains about a gallon of water, so my well contains about 80 gallons of water unless I use some. It flows at around 2 gpm, so if I use more than 2 gpm, it reduces the amount of water stored in the well. If I keep using more than 2 gpm, the well will run dry. It will eventually refill at 2 gpm. So, your well has virtually no water stored in it, and if you use water faster than it flows out of the ground, you run out of water. Sounds like you don't have enough flow to give you enough water for what you do, or your well isn't deep enough to give you water stored in it as it is in mine, or both. If I were you, I'd be conserving water pretty seriously and consulting a well service to see what you can do about this.

Answer 5

NO! That is not enough water for a family much less a single person. You should start conserving water as soon as possible. A good way to do that is to wash clothes at a laundry mat. This cuts down on an enormous amount of water usage. Think about this an average toilet uses 10 gallons of water per flush! So maybe if all you do is pee, you might wait to flush until next time, if you are desperate to save your well. On days it rains wherever you live, catch rain water to flush toilets. A bad sign to tell if your well is low is there might be a muddy tinge to the water, or possibly small rocks in it. Use a clear glass jar to look at your water. Good Luck, I hope this helps!

Answer 6

if you are running out of water it is obvious that you aren't getting enough  water,  sooner or later the pump running dry will burn your  pump out and it will be an expensive repair . maybe you can have your well hydrofraced to get more water to flow into the well. as most homes in the us have private wells this is very common .toilets do not use 10 gallons per flush not even old ones , you will have to ration your water use and give the well time to recover.

Answer 7

should be ok depends on the size of your household though!

Answer 8

i guess