Community well pump

Being lakefront community I could see this being a rather shallow well and possibly have five jet pumps in that pit drawing from same well?

Deep well with 5 submersible pumps wouldn't be too likely unless maybe it was at least a 12 inch well casing.
 
I would assume there is some yearly escrow that funds well maintenance and repairs. That is something you might want to check.
 
There is stuff I dont know but never seen setup with multiple real subs down a bore well. The big revolution was drives so they can run higher horsepower from rural single phase lines. Starts used to sock them right to the nuts and ours suggested a 10 hp limit.
 
kwired said:
Being lakefront community I could see this being a rather shallow well and possibly have five jet pumps in that pit drawing from same well?

Deep well with 5 submersible pumps wouldn't be too likely unless maybe it was at least a 12 inch well casing.
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That’s why I think it would be a bored well instead of drilled. Sounds like they have something funky going on, until the op gets onsite, we are just speculating.
 
jim dungar said:
The one at my cottage and my son's are both drilled with 'standard' caps on them. You would not know that each casing fed two houses, just by looking at them.
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Probably using a pit less adapters on it too, no exposed piping above ground. Now, in Georgia, they require a “well seal” where a concrete pad is poured around the pipe to keep ground water from seeping in around the pipe.
 
If I was hired to wire and design this, there would be low volt switch controls at every cottage that feed back to one contactor at the well pump. The high current power for the pump would be fed from one cottage, or a separate metered panel. Check the cottage closest to the well pump. It's probably in there.
 
herding_cats said:
If I was hired to wire and design this, there would be low volt switch controls at every cottage that feed back to one contactor at the well pump. The high current power for the pump would be fed from one cottage, or a separate metered panel. Check the cottage closest to the well pump. It's probably in there.
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If there is one central pump I really don't see why there wouldn't also be control at the pump that is pressure controlled.

If there is controls from each user then you would think there is probably multiple pumps. This is assuming automatic control that maintains some level of continuous pressure being available. If a more primative system then you likely need to physically turn on the well every time you need to run some water. I mostly only see those sort of systems with livestock wells or out in pastures or some other definite purpose well that doesn't have pressure maintenance type of control on it.
 
kwired said:
If there is one central pump I really don't see why there wouldn't also be control at the pump that is pressure controlled.

If there is controls from each user then you would think there is probably multiple pumps. This is assuming automatic control that maintains some level of continuous pressure being available. If a more primative system then you likely need to physically turn on the well every time you need to run some water. I mostly only see those sort of systems with livestock wells or out in pastures or some other definite purpose well that doesn't have pressure maintenance type of control on it.
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That's what I thought, but when OP stated each cottage had a "control" it made me think there is no pressure control switch. Adding pressure control updating it to a modern well would be best if that can be done.
 
herding_cats said:
That's what I thought, but when OP stated each cottage had a "control" it made me think there is no pressure control switch. Adding pressure control updating it to a modern well would be best if that can be done.
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It may be a solenoid that shuts off the water to that cottage when unoccupied, instead of a manual valve and nothing to do with controlling the pump? Until the op gets back with their findings, it’s just a guessing game, not that we haven’t done that before! LOL!
 
hillbilly1 said:
It may be a solenoid that shuts off the water to that cottage when unoccupied, instead of a manual valve and nothing to do with controlling the pump? Until the op gets back with their findings, it’s just a guessing game, not that we haven’t done that before! LOL!
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yes, but there's still SOMEONE paying to run the pump. the idea was that they were somehow splitting the cost on the electrical usage of the pump.
 
My guess is that each cottage has a pressure tank with its own pressure switch, and then there is a 12-2 UF that runs from the pressure switch to an in ground splice box next to the well. All the cottages are fed from the same transformer, so as long as the legs are matched up properly, it wouldn't matter which cottage was calling, as they all can trigger the pump, and send power to the pump from more than 1 pressure switch at a time. Electrically the pump wouldn't know the difference. Safety wise less so, but electrically it would work just fine.
 
going_commando said:
My guess is that each cottage has a pressure tank with its own pressure switch, and then there is a 12-2 UF that runs from the pressure switch to an in ground splice box next to the well. All the cottages are fed from the same transformer, so as long as the legs are matched up properly, it wouldn't matter which cottage was calling, as they all can trigger the pump, and send power to the pump from more than 1 pressure switch at a time. Electrically the pump wouldn't know the difference. Safety wise less so, but electrically it would work just fine.
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I thought about that. It would work but the one person with the lowest pressure setting would end up doing all the work. You could incorporate solenoid valves and that would make it fairly accurate .
 
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