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Well drilling on Fleming Island for lawns beside iron-rich water
Fleming Island is on utility water, so a new bore is for the lawn, and on an island of pale stucco the drilling question is how to keep the iron off the house.
Well Drilling in Fleming Island
- County
- Clay County
- Design
- Purpose, demand, depth, casing, setback
- Permit
- County office, or the City in Duval
- After
- Yield test, disinfection, completion report, lab sample
- Hours
- 7 days a week, 7am to 9pm
What changes in Fleming Island
The shallow zone along the river carries iron, and a sprinkler well that draws from it leaves orange streaks on stucco and pavers by the end of the first summer. A new irrigation bore here starts with a sample; where iron is high the bore is drilled past the shallow zone or fitted with a treatment stage on the sprinkler line. Both are cheaper than repainting.
The systems are large, so the well is sized to the biggest zone on the controller and equipped to recover between them. The permit is the Clay County health department's, and the setback from any retired septic tank on the older waterfront lots is measured.
How the job runs
How a well is drilled here
Every new well is designed before it is drilled: purpose, demand, depth to the water that suits it, casing through the clay where the bore goes to the Floridan, and the setback from any septic system on the lot or next door. The permit is filed with the county office, or the City of Jacksonville in Duval, before the rig is booked. The bore is drilled, cased, grouted, developed until it runs clear and tested for yield. The pump, pitless adapter and pressure tank are sized to that yield and to the demand. The well is disinfected, the completion report is filed and a sample goes to a certified laboratory before anyone drinks from it.
Straight answers
Well Drilling questions from Fleming Island
Can the iron be avoided by drilling deeper?
Often, though the Floridan is a real depth on the river. A sample decides whether treatment is the better answer.
Who permits a Fleming Island well?
The Florida Department of Health in Clay County.
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