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Well drilling in St. Augustine into the oldest tapped aquifer in the country
A new well in St. Augustine reaches Floridan water that once flowed at the surface, hard and sulfurous, and the bore is planned with the treatment already decided.
Well Drilling in St. Augustine
- County
- St. Johns 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 St. Augustine
The Floridan aquifer under St. Augustine has been drawn on longer than anywhere in the United States, and in places it still carries artesian pressure. A new supply well here is cased through the sand and the clay and opens into limestone whose water is reliable, hard and among the most sulfurous on the coast. Call Flamingo sizes the aeration or oxidising stage with the bore, because the first hot shower will otherwise be the complaint.
The county health department permits wells for all of St. Johns County, so the paperwork is one office, and a closing-driven well on the older lots inland of the city is filed and drilled against the date.
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 St. Augustine
Why is St. Augustine well water so sulfurous?
The limestone carries sulfate and the Floridan water here reduces it to sulfide. It is treatable and expected.
Who permits a well in St. Augustine?
The Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County, under delegation from the water management district.
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