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Well drilling in Orange Park to get below the iron
The streets around Doctors Lake that never joined the utility drill new wells for one reason more than any other: the shallow water is orange.
Well Drilling in Orange Park
- 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 Orange Park
Orange Park's shallow zone is iron country, and the commonest new well here is a replacement for a shallow jet-pump bore that stains everything it touches. The new bore is cased through the clay into the Floridan, which on this side of the river is reached sooner than on the coast, and an iron stage is sized to the completion test rather than assumed.
The older streets are tight, and the new bore has to stand 75 feet from the septic system on a quarter-acre lot that also has a driveway and a property line. That measurement often decides whether the old bore is deepened or a new one is drilled, and Call Flamingo measures before it quotes.
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 Orange Park
Why is Orange Park well water orange?
Iron in the shallow zone above the federal secondary standard. A deeper cased well and an iron stage fix it.
Can the old well be deepened instead?
Sometimes, if the casing is sound and the bore is large enough. Otherwise a new well is drilled and the old one plugged.
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