Wells, Sump Pumps and Septic Sewage Systems - How can I locate my well??
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bradie
03-27-05, 05:30 PM
I am getting a new drive put in an my well pump is in the corner of my basement near my drive. How can I locate it so I don't have problems when they start digging??
Who do I call or would it be on a plat map??
Thank you..
Who do I call or would it be on a plat map??
Thank you..
wmccormick
03-27-05, 06:59 PM
I'm not sure what your situation is. Are you saying that the water tank is in the corner of the basement, and the well is elsewhere with a pipe running to the storage tank? Normally the pump sits on top of the well, right beside it, or inside it, straight down from where the well pipe comes out of the ground.
Are you trying to locate a water line that runs from the well to the basement? If so, the task may be easy if the ground is not rocky. Just take a slick steel rod, 3/8 to 1/2 inch diameter and long enough to reach the expected depth of the pipe. In Texas a water pipe is rarely over 16 inches deep. In Canada, who knows how deep it might have to be? If the rod (some home building supply stores sell probing rods ready made with a T handle on the top) is not equipped with a T top, make one by drilling a hole the size of the rod into the center of a short piece of steel pipe, going through only one side. Insert the rod into the handle and begin pushing the rod into the ground. If you do not hit the pipe, move over an inch and do it again. Keep this up for a while, and you will hit the pipe. If the pipe was laid in a clean cut ditch, you can take a hoe or other scraper and peel off the upper portion of the dirt. The dirt filling the ditch will almost always be a different color. When you get the ditch located, the job is 90% done.
W.A. McCormick
Are you trying to locate a water line that runs from the well to the basement? If so, the task may be easy if the ground is not rocky. Just take a slick steel rod, 3/8 to 1/2 inch diameter and long enough to reach the expected depth of the pipe. In Texas a water pipe is rarely over 16 inches deep. In Canada, who knows how deep it might have to be? If the rod (some home building supply stores sell probing rods ready made with a T handle on the top) is not equipped with a T top, make one by drilling a hole the size of the rod into the center of a short piece of steel pipe, going through only one side. Insert the rod into the handle and begin pushing the rod into the ground. If you do not hit the pipe, move over an inch and do it again. Keep this up for a while, and you will hit the pipe. If the pipe was laid in a clean cut ditch, you can take a hoe or other scraper and peel off the upper portion of the dirt. The dirt filling the ditch will almost always be a different color. When you get the ditch located, the job is 90% done.
W.A. McCormick
Pumpman
03-28-05, 07:53 AM
We use a company called DigAlert out in So. Cal. They'll come out and locate all underground piping (water, gas, etc.) .
I'm not sure if they are in your area, but there is probably someone like them.
Ron
I'm not sure if they are in your area, but there is probably someone like them.
Ron
bradie
03-28-05, 08:32 AM
Thank you both so much..I am having a pump company come out this afternoon. It was also suggested to contact the DNR but they didnt start mapping this out in Wisconsin until 1990 so that wont work.
Thanks again
Thanks again