The Well Pump is Installed

The well company returned today to finish the installation of our well.  In particular we needed to have a pump installed along with the requisite hardware such as a bladder tank and an all weather spigot.  We elected to have the bladder tank installed in an underground chamber outside.  Often, the tank is placed inside the building that the well is serving but since we have as yet no building and we need to use the water now, we had everything placed outside.  There is no problem with this, it will not freeze underground and in the future when the building goes up we can run an underground pipe to the inside of the building and just leave everything else outside where it is.  It only took about two hours for the well guys to get everything installed.  We hooked up the power to our generator and we have, at long last, plenty of water on our land.

This is the completed installation.  The large black tube holds the bladder tank.  The frost proof hydrant is in the middle.  The well itself can be seen in the foreground.  The pump is in the well shaft, 170 feet down.

We backfilled the installation.  We will have to dig it up again when we are ready to install a line to the building.

We attached a hose to the hydrant and powered up the pump with our new diesel generator.

We have plenty of water pressure.
The water comes out of the ground quite cold - about 13 C 

This is how we test for the potability of water here in West Virginia.
The water tastes a bit of minerals but is quite safe to drink.