Buryng Well Head ?

house. We bought

the previous

driveway along the

especially in the

head sits so low that

not see it and

with a 6-foot high

limited in the

configured, the way

owners property line

Consequently, I had to

now the well head

edge making it even

feet, cut it off,

steel or aluminum

driveway surface so we

to lift the lid up

doing this ?

Straight forward, a bit of work too: Just be sure to check your local ordnances/zoning regs. Ours is in a 6 x 6 cement box - loads of room to work down in there, no freezing, etc..

Pop

Pop

Only down side of burying it is your making a way for runoff and contaminants to enter your well.

So be sure the enclosure floor (if there is one) pitched *away* from the well casing and have the casing slightly elevated from the floor. Maybe use a gravel floor in the box/pit instead?

for runoff and

Yes, definitely! Ours has a pipe that runs into our basement to the sump; the electric & water supply comes in inside a 6 inch pipe. You do NOT want to allow water to collect inside an enclosure like that or you can easily contaminate the well water, or ... worse. The pipe also allows a small amount of heat to keep things in there from freezing. Glad someone thought to mention this!

Pop

Yep, whatever you use to bury it will have to be waterproof, not just now but for years in the future.

Harry K

In many cases the well head does not have to be at the top of the well. In-laws have a 400+ ft well and the head iis over 60ft away from the well inside of his workshop. All you may need to do is cut the pipe below grade install an elbo and pipe and locate the head elsewhere. Your particular installation may prevent this of course.

I never thought of that. I think I'm going to call a well company to ask what they think, but I hadn't thought of an elbow. That should work in our case. thank !

Unless they have to pull out the well pump for repair or replacement (2 times in 20 years for me), then they have to undo the elbow joint to have a straight run to the pump. When you call the well company, ask them about burying the well head instead. I am sure they have done plenty of them.

No point in reinventing the wheel, when you can buy it off the shelf. Check your local precast concrete company. They probably have precast concrete or HDPE well/valve pits that will be appropriate. If they go 'huh?', ask local utilities and street departments where they get theirs. Plain steel or even aluminum will have corrosion problems. If you want the lid to be drivable, you are will need a cast iron top ring and lid (or at least a metal lip and thick diamond plate) like what you see out in a street manhole service pit. If possible freezing is a problem, make an inner foam lid that fits under real lid. If you can put the foam deep enough (ie below frostline), ground heat may be enough, otherwise you may need to add heat somehow. Remember, unless the pump is within arm's length of surface, you have to be able to get down there it to work on it. Plumbers hate hanging upside down.

Oh, yeah, some people will probably holler at you for posting a binary, rather than a link to the website you probably don't have. You may want to check with your ISP- many offer 'toy' websites for free as part of your account. (useless for anything but posting pictures of the kids, etc, but handy for stuff like this.)

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