Reasons Why You Have Low Water Well Pressure
The water pressure inside your home can reflect something else causing more problem. It could be the simple leak of a faucet, or it might mean that your well needs to be redrilled, or that the pump is worn.
In most cases, we can easily boost your home’s water flow and bring you and your family better living conditions.
Let’s discuss what could be causing low water pressure at home.
Well Pump Errors
Check your well pump to diagnose your low water pressure. The well pump should be built right into the well, but you might have a jet pump in there as well.
When you have already decided it is time for replacement, but aren’t sure if you can handle it yourself, hire an expert. C&J Well Co has been installing pumps for customers with low water pressure
We’ll be on time and make it a smooth experience for all involved. So you don’t have to stress if someone won’t turn up when they said they would.
A Well System Leak
Your well leaking can be responsible for low water pressure.
The leak in your well casing, your underground waterline, or in your plumbing system can be hard to notice because it’s underground and invisible. You might not discover a leak once your water pressure begins to suffer.
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Leaks in well systems generally happen when pipes and fittings have not been properly installed, and if not properly secured the connections will gradually weaken and start to leak when they corrode or wear away completely.
Leaks can also be the result of faulty pressure tanks. When seams or valves are cracked, they will have tiny pinholes where air gets into the tank, making it fill up less often over time (and decreasing the amount of water that emerges when you open the faucets).
Low Water or Dry Well
The water level in your well should be checked if you have a well and you do not have enough pressure. A well “was dry” when “water receded under a pump intake,” according to the USGS, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that the dry well will never be wet again, as the water level can rise again over time due to increasing recharge.
Its level in a well will vary depending on several factors including depth, confined or unconditioned aquifer the well comes into contact with, pumping rate in this aquifer, recharge rate. Wells screened in unconfined water table aquifers have less immediate effects from rainfall than wells screened in deeper confined aquifers.
A well on a steep, contained aquifer where pumping is not significant will have a higher probability of drying up than a shallow water table well. The reason might be many:
Your pump is broken and needs fixing or replacement
Not your well dry but it looks that way when you’re pump isn’t working. The water surrounding a well when pumped out creates a cone of depression in the water table. If the depression cone extends into other wells, the water level will drop in those wells. Hardly any well ever goes dry. What happens most often is that the water table has dropped to near or under the pump intake due to the pump intake not being deep enough to prevent a decline in water level. Or maybe the little strainer over the nozzle of the pump inlet is partly blocked, which makes it take longer to pump the same amount of water. Either way, when the pumping rate exceeds the inflow into the well, air is pumped, and no water is generated until the pump is shut off and the well returns to full.
There’s a blockage in your pipes
A tree root intrusion or a blocked filter filter screen in your outside tap. Again, maybe your well isn’t drained out, but you still want to have water in the house.
Your well actually has gone dry
So you don’t have water underneath the soil where your well is situated. This could happen if the aquifer (the layer of rock or sand through which groundwater passes) is eroded due to overuse from adjacent wells. Water fills the majority of the empty holes in the rocks that lie beneath the water table.
Wherever these rocky bodies of water most readily carry water to a well or a spring, they’re referred to as aquifers. It is groundwater that precipitation that seeps beneath the soil to the water table. The water-removed air and water between the rock and vegetation is contained in the aerating layer above the water table. Under the water table, in the saturated zone, groundwater soaks between rocks and bedrock cracks.
Rural water scarcity stems in large part from dilapidated wells, septic systems and too-shallow housing stock. Drilled or deep wells will usually be less prone to sewage or surface-contamination sources than shallow wells, though bedrock well water tends to be more likely to be gaseous or mineral-rich than shallower deposit water. Well drillers know the standard area problems and tend to get the wells right most of the time.
If you think you have a dry well, hire a well contractor as soon as possible to prevent further harm to your well system.
Water Well Screen and Wellhead
Well screen is a mesh that deters material from the well. Depending on how old or damaged your screen, the waste could get into your well and block it.
This is possible for a range of reasons – decreased water velocity, bad tasting or funny smelling water, leaky pipes up from the well into your home or business. For rust and corrosion prevention you want to make use of stainless steel well screen. Also, when your screen is blocked, a well cleanout can reboot your system and clear it of sediment and buildup.
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The wellhead is another important element in your water supply that shields your home from contamination in soil and groundwater (if not sealed properly, it will leak and potentially be contaminated.
The well cap is the covering over the well casing sticking out of the ground. It’s useful for all kinds of things. The majority of caps (aluminum or thermoplastic) come with a vented screen that allows the difference in pressure from inside to outside of the well case to be equalized when the well is filled with water. But the purpose of the cap is to keep pollutants out of the water supply. You can also replace the well cap if it is damaged from rust or corrosion and will not work.
Have an indication that your well screen or wellhead is not working properly? Call us today for help.
Faucet Aerator
Faucet aerators adjust the quantity of water that enters a tap. They fit into the spout of the faucet and can be moved to control the direction of water from the faucet. Your aerators can clog and your home’s low points may lose half of their pressure. Dirt and other debris can become stuck in the aerators.
You need to be regularly cleaning your faucets’ aerators, or hire a contractor to do it. The minerals that build up in your hard water can damage your plumbing over time.
So if you have low water pressure in your well, it’s best to have an expert come and give it a checkup. They can make sure everything is okay and fix what could be the problem.
If you have any queries or concerns feel free to reach out!