Artesian Well PROBLEMS!

Our artesian well is causing us a few problems that we need to resolve before we can begin building our off grid earth sheltered house!
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[@Ed-hz2um]

We were lucky enough to have a stream bed just downhill from our artesian well. Our driller installed a tube on the casing about 5' from the top. The overflow just feeds into the small stream, then into our beaver pond. It has been flowing continuously for 18 years. Nice!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

That’s perfect!!! Very nice indeed 😊

[@IbrahimOsmanbansi-pn5nv]

Please how many meters

[@Ed-hz2um]

@@IbrahimOsmanbansi-pn5nv Well depth? About 55 meters.

[@zaneymay]

Interesting. Love the future garden shed.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

I can't wait to have my garden and everything! Kathie

[@vaneyhag]

I have two artisan wells on my family's property here in Riverview Florida. The world feeds our house has never stopped flowing in the 65+ years. The other that was dug for citrus irrigation and the few head of cows we had stopped flowing for about 6 months a couple years back. The artesian well has been a blessing through the years during hurricane season when the power was out.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Wow! Lucky you…. And it’s great that you make wonderful use of all that water! Thanks for sharing 😊

[@GINGERKIDinc]

Oh, the Adirondacks. Wonderful!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

We love it!

[@AllenOxendine]

Thanks for sharing and for visiting my channel.. Returning Support with Full View and Like. Hope you and your family are staying safe and well.. Interesting process..

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Appreciate that👍

[@2ndchancegeorge]

This is a great video and explanations. Facinating. You guys scored with this well👍

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thanks! Appreciate that very much 👍

[@patricklandis3910]

Create your own electricity with the artesian well we also have an artesian well in our property I set up a little flow paper lol reservoir to lower to run hopefully ours runs 24 seven 365 days a week flows into our pond flows out in the river never stops so make good use of your artesian well

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

I looked into that but when I did the calculations it would not be enough velocity. Curious how much electric you are getting from that. I love the idea!

[@Viper6-MotoVlogger]

That is indeed really cool that you have that much water.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thanks!

[@MariaKalinowska]

Hello! Great and very nice video - I like it! Greetings! Have a great nice day!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thank you! You too!

[@CrustyAbsconder]

You could bottle the water and give it to friends and family as gifts. You definitely want to save 10,000 gallons somehow for a future famine. You might as well make some kind of swimming-hole. Whatever you do, you need to keep it secret. LOL !

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Lol. We always joke about selling our ‘pure adk water’! 😁

[@MasterKenfucius]

Artesian wells are great. We seem to have different ones here in Florida. Recharge areas are definitely not above the top of the well because everything is so flat, and yet we get enough underground water pressure from them to get a 30-gal/min free flow out of a 2.5 inch pipe.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Yes. Yours are under pressure. Great flow rate you have too!

[@IbrahimOsmanbansi-pn5nv]

Please yours is how many meters

[@MasterKenfucius]

@@IbrahimOsmanbansi-pn5nv about 140 meters, or 420 feet deep.

[@RCAFpolarexpress]

Good evening to both of you 👍😊 Very well done video about your water well and How you are going to fixe that problems 😊👍 CHeers 👌😊

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thanks! Appreciate that very much my friend 👍

[@steenbeanl7170]

Hopefully no earthquakes! Best of luck with your well🙂

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Agreed and thank you❤️ Kathie

[@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead]

🇨🇦🇨🇦We are hooking up our artesian well this weekend. Come along with us!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

We will definitely check it out! Can’t wait 👍

[@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead]

Please subscribe to our channel and come along with us this weekend when we hook up our artesian well

[@gtx2880]

Where about a in the Adirondacks are you located? I am in the foothills just inside the park near Remsen, NY I also have an artesian well. I am currently experimenting open loop geothermal. I took a truck radiator and ran my water hose to the bottom inlet and let it fill the radiator and the top outlet gets discharged into a drain and runs outside. I am using a 20” fan to blow through the radiator and on a 95 degree day we were in the basement and the air temp was cold enough to see the dogs breathe laying on the floor!! It kept the upstairs at around 72 degrees. In the future I will be playing with inside fish farm that feeds into a hydroponics garden before I get rid of the water!! Good luck with your ventures and we are blessed to have these wells!!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Wow! What you did sounds great! We are currently having sone issues with our well so we will see... and we are near warrensburg 👍

[@goodlife7756]

good one!!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thank you!

[@nancytimberlake5363]

Consider yourself quite lucky I tried to have an Artesian well drilled unfortunately the ammonia level was so high the driller had to close it out I did some research and learn artificial fertilizer an animal waste basically polluting deep bedrock aquifers I didn't know those went that deep still have water 💦 happy for that just have to find another solution to get rid of the bad sulfur smell an rust or hard water corrosion of my washer and hot water heater

[@akdn11]

you should find a way to use the overflow to power micro hydro. Also perhaps enough water for open loop geothermal heat pump. .

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

I will definitely look into both. Pretty sure my wife looked into hydro, but I’ll definitely double check

[@tnt666tnt]

I have a artsian well at my house aswell. Much more flow them you guys have. Right now mine is capped but I am thinking of doing some type of water fountain or something with mine.. look forward to more videos from you guys about your well!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

It’s a lot if water that cones out and if you have more, wow, it must be a lot!

[@tnt666tnt]

I posted a 5 second clip on my channel of the flow. it's quite a bit..

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

@@tnt666tnt going to see now!

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

@@tnt666tnt oh wow. You really do have a serious flow there! I checked out your sump pump video too and all I can say is good thing it works!

[@tnt666tnt]

@@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid Ha! no kidding eh!

[@dobitel9]

Wouldn't it be okay to make the well head pipe higher, maybe as much as 10 feet? You can keep the pump spigot in the same place with a good seal. Seems the water pressure is not that great as to flow out from a higher point above the spigot. In our state, it is not legal to drill our own well because of creating an unstoppable artesian spring that will flood the area. My folks had an old farm that had a well dug before the law was made, good thing it was near an existing stream for the overflow to go.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

That might work, but this past year we actually did the opposite. You can see what we did in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5uUc3WEqpyFhpI

[@edwardturpin6544]

When growing up, my dad bought a ~100 yr old house that had an artesian well. Runoff went into a large concrete cistern (not sure if that's the right term). Not sure how the "cistern" drained. Also had seasonal wetlands starting ~300 yards back down a slight slope, so it might have somehow drained to that.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

That sounds pretty nice!

[@Hiteshshlaki]

Usually I see artesian well surrounded by small pond like water bodies.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Agreed but we are on a hillside and the ground is very permeable.

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

I have a flowing well. Planning on building a spring house. What are you doing for foundation with the high water table?

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

We plan on building a spring house too. We will be putting drainage around the entire foundation.

[@ghettovanadventures]

That was a really good video… Do you plan on building with the price of materials so high or wait it out

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thanks. We are going to still try to build and hope it all works out because who knows what another year will bring....

[@gtessie9116]

@@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid prices are down to almost double here in northern canada. so its better i guess before some other gov shit happens

[@BS.-.-]

I have a seasonally artesian well but mine is in my basement. You can install a well seal. I put a well seal on and a vent pipe raised up about 2ft, it stopped overflowing into my basement at that point. For any build site prep is so important and you own a machine so it's nearly free.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

We have discussed that. We may seal it temporarily but if we’re having the pipe put in for our plumbing we may as well also have the pipe installed for the overflow at the same time. Thanks for watching and commenting. We really do appreciate the input 👍

[@BS.-.-]

@@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid I think by taking potable( underground water) and putting it on the ground your basically wasting what's in the aquifer. You have the wrong type of well cap for the type of well you have. They make sell caps that seal and allow for pipes and wires to exit.

[@divinee.155]

Put a proper pipe on the dam well head with pressure fitting. I have a piece of stick in mine i bought the house like that and no issues

[@CyberDocUSA]

You say artesian, I say artisan, even though they're entirely different definitions... :-) Joking. Thank goodness no one is manipulating weather patterns in order to control the water supply and establish dominion over anyone... Richie is a well seasoned artesian, too? Hey, we have something in common, man! Lmao. Being silly today and thank you for teaching me some things today. Be well.

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Only just saw this comment! Silly and learning are great attributes!

[@CyberDocUSA]

@@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid absolutely and no worries. Life Works. Love yooz guys.

[@Jay78801]

You could make the casing taller to stop the flow

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Thanks! That’s a great idea but we’ve since done a run off pipe.

[@TheCanadianBubba]

Ponds on your property are mosquito factories in the summer...

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Unfortunately true...

[@divinee.155]

Yep i have a stream well it says.on the deed but land is huge so haven't found it yet but mosquitoes have and its brutal.

[@Reformed1]

Is the water safe to drink being that it’s coming from such a rusted pipe??

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

Absolutely. It’s just iron and can easily be filtered.

[@KorySteele]

The rust is from the iron in the water, not the pipe itself.

[@patricklandis3910]

You don’t have a problem you’re just not experienced with our teacher last night do you think it’s a problem because Never had to deal with one the only reason why it’s a problem is because you say it is but if you’ve had experience with artesian wells there’s no problem at all use it to your advantage make your own energy by putting a water turbine together and use the water is all sorts of reasons to use no they’re not a problem if you know what you’re doing

[@CreatingASimplerLifeOffGrid]

I'm sorry I did not explain well enough. It was only a problem because we would be building in that location (build just began) and the water would be a problem for our build. We know how blessed we are to have so much water and as you saw in the video we have so many plans for how we can use it! Things didn't turn out exactly as we planned with the remediation we just completed, but we are happy that we will still be able to make good use of all the overflow. Thanks so much for commenting!

[@libtrs838]

Did you not watch the video? They said they had a problem with mud, which they did, then they went on to say they were blessed with a lot of water and talked about plans of how to use it to their advantage. You can turn things that seem to be a problem into something useful that was what the video was about.