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Well drilling in Hilliard, deep enough to ignore the flatwoods water table
The flatwoods table rises every wet season, and a new Hilliard well is drilled to the Floridan so the household never has to watch it.
Well Drilling in Hilliard
- County
- Nassau 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 Hilliard
Hilliard's pine flatwoods hold a shallow water table that comes up in the wet months and drops in the dry ones, and a shallow bore moves with it. A new supply well is cased through the clay into the Floridan so it delivers the same in April as in August, and the wellhead is set on built-up ground with the grade falling away from it, because a flooded wellhead is a contaminated well.
The pump circuit is wired for a generator, because Hilliard is far enough north that a storm outage is a week without water otherwise. The Nassau County health department permits the bore.
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 Hilliard
Why not a shallow well in Hilliard?
Because the shallow table drops in a dry spring and a jet pump then loses prime. Depth is the durable answer.
Who permits a Hilliard well?
The Florida Department of Health in Nassau County.
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