My outdoor well is leaking?!!?

Question

Help, please! I finally realized something is wrong w/ my well. Water is leaking onto the street from the area of the well. Didn't think anything was wrong at first because it had been raining a lot. I'm in NY how much would it cost to fix appx? Can I turn the pump on and off to use sparingly in the meantime?

Answer 1

Sounds like a busted pipe so it's hard to say what the cost will be to repair. Depends on how deep it is, where the break is, etc. If you want to save money, you might try digging it up yourself if you can tell where the leak is. Plumbers charge by the hour, rather they are digging or repairing pipe. I don't know if I would try turning the pump off and on until the repair is made. Might make thing worse than they already are. Good luck with it.

Answer 2

If, that's "If" your not using the well and it's leaking then you have an artisan well, the aquifer is overflowing, probably from the overflow of rain and the pressure of the ground. There's nothing you can do about geological ground pressure. Not until the rain stops and the ground aquifer slows down.

If the well is leaking when you use it, then you have a leaking pipe, call a plumber or fix the leak yourself. It's that simple. If the water is coming up around the well pipe, you have a serious problem, really you do.

That means, when the water stops, the drain water in the area can also run down, contaminating the well. I wouldn't even began to tell you what diseases you could get from this.
The County would probably come out and condemn the well.

I would contact a well driller or at least a plumber, have him check the well over. See what the problem is. Maybe they will be able to seal it with cement all around it. If this is the problem.
I can see many problems here that are possible, some severe, some simple, take care of it for your own sake.