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MntGoat
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# Posted: 12 May 2017 13:40
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Hi everyone. I have a cabin I am building in the mountains of Maine. I need to install a dug well for a water supply.
I have a low lying area near the cabin, but it is an area that holds run off from the cabin driveway. I do not plan to drink the water. Is such an area suitable or should I revise the plan?
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ForceFed70
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# Posted: 12 May 2017 14:17
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While you want your well in a natural bowl or low area, what you don't want is surface water filling the well.
Surface water isn't clean. And while you don't plan to drink it, you can still get E.coli from animal poop just by washing dishes with it.
Also, surface water will drag trash and dirt into the well eventually reducing it's depth, etc.
Long story short - you want a low spot, but not "the lowest spot".
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Eddy G
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# Posted: 14 May 2017 08:32
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Our cabin is in western NH.
The well was dug on the side of a slope, a small hill.
I don't know what it looked like originally but when we bought the place the top of the block wall just barely breached the surface and was covered with a sheet of old crappy plywood ....None of which was a good idea.
First thing we did was treat and flush the well.
Then we built up the block wall 3' above ground to prevent the water running down the hill and all the bugs, pine needles, sticks and dirt from washing in.
Flushed and treated it again. Had a 3' x 5' sheet metal cap made. (still have to paint or epoxy that).
Then I replaced the 50' of plastic pipe to the cabin, installed 2 inline micron filters to remove any solids.
The water tests okay, nothings going to hurt us but we don't use it for drinking water just to be safe. We use it for everything else.
From what I found you can dig it anywhere you want as long as the walls are above ground and stop run off.
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