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    Default Re: New borehole - limited water

    Quote Originally Posted by Erwin Schimper View Post
    What was your agreement with the driller. Why did he stop. You pay per meter. So if you want 100m and are prepared to pay, then he has to drill 100m.

    What are the specs of your pump. How long does it take to recover to rest water level.
    The initial package is up to 50m, which I think would have been plenty, he says he stopped because he didn't want to push through the "river bed" and risk hitting another clay layer, you get told you are on plenty water though and wont have issues so you take the expert at their word

    its a small pump, 0.37kw, but i'm actually impressed at its ability to pump water. With no output restriction I "measure" 40lt p/m when it is running good

    I don't have a super accurate answer to exactly how long it takes to recover, but in my experience so far it seems to take maybe 3 hours before I can replicate the run time (I can only judge by the output side, I would only be able to tell properly I assume by taking the pump out so I can see down the hole.) Though this is a partly speculative on limited experience, I haven't done this continually enough, generally I am running it once a day or so at the moment then it rests the remainder of the day and night until the next day
    Last edited by Tom newby; 2024/08/06 at 11:59 AM.

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