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Well drilling in Palatka to retire a jet pump that keeps losing prime

Most new bores in Palatka replace a shallow river-town well on a jet pump, and the new one goes deep enough to stop caring what the river is doing.

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Well Drilling in Palatka

County
Putnam 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 Palatka

Palatka's older housing runs shallow wells on jet pumps that lose prime when the river drops the water table in a dry spring, and deliver iron all year. A new supply well is cased through the clay into the Floridan, which is reached at a workable depth on this side of the county, and equipped with a submersible so suction lift stops being the limit.

Iron on the completion test decides the treatment stage, and the old shallow bore is plugged under its own permit rather than left open. The Putnam County health department permits both.

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 Palatka

Why replace a jet pump well rather than fix it?

Because the water level keeps dropping below suction. A deeper well with a submersible has no such limit.

Who permits a Palatka well?

The Florida Department of Health in Putnam County.

Well Drilling in Palatka

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