We woke up this morning with no water. My husband thinks it's the submersible pump, but he had a heckuva time getting the pump in, and he'd rather have a better idea of whether or not it's working before he goes to the trouble of pulling it.
We have a 200' deep well, the pump is about 170' down. We think it's a Gould pump, but we're not sure. The pump was used when we got it, and we installed it in the well five years ago. The only problem we've had since then was this past June, when we had to replace the control box after a violent lightning storm. Otherwise, all has been working fine.
When we turn on the circuit breaker for the deep well pump, we can hear a surging from the control box -- like a hum -- and then it stops, and then it hums again in sort of a 3-seconds on, 3-seconds off pattern. There is definitely water in the well, but when we removed the well cap, we couldn't hear the pump in the well, though we're not sure whether we should be able to through the water (there is probably 70' of water above the pump). My husband replaced the control box with a brand new one, to no avail.
He has since hooked up a shallow well pump to a barrel in the basement, going into the same line right before the pressure tank, and all is working well, so presumably it's not the pressure tank.
Does anyone have any ideas of things we haven't thought of before we pull the pump? Or is there any way to test the pump before pulling it?
Thanks for any ideas.