Glad I have a well.
Reading stories like this makes me glad that I live in the Midwest only a few miles from one of the Great Lakes.
I have had three houses in NH. All on drilled wells. The first two had heavy iron content. So, I had to filter the water. The current house had Radon at over 100K(10K is suggest limit). So, I put in a Bubble Up unit inline after the bladder tank.
The last two houses I had to replace the well pump. First one was down 220’. I had to replace the casing and the electrical wires($2500).
This house I had to replace the pump about eight years ago.
Casing and wires were still good($1400).
We had the water tested because there have been some issues with PFAS and old gasoline stations in the general area leaking into the water table. Our water is fine, except for the radon. I just filer it through the fridge.
I forgot to mention the second house well pump was UNDER the screened in porch for my kitchen. Meaning the well head was not exposed when we bought the house(vintage 1972). The porch had a brick floor. Under the brick was a couple inches of sand and then a concrete patio. Installed by one of the previous owners.
We found the location by taking off the connection inside the basement wall and sticking an electrical fish tape into the pipe(14’). That was about 3’ inside the corner of the porch on the end of the house.
The guys from the well company had to bring in a cutoff saw to cut through the concrete. Down 7’ in the ground was the well head in a crypt they built in 1972.
They said it could have been WORSE. I said HOW? They said well at least it is not under the in ground swimming pool. Which was about 20’ away.
He went on to say that yes they had once had a well installed under the shallow end of the pool. They ended up drilling a new well. They also told me about someone who had built a family room addition over the well head. With a crawlspace underneath. They had to cut through the hardwood floor of the room to be able to pull the pump up and replace it.
My issue happened during the Second Gulf War. My screened in porch off the kitchen was full of demo for awhile.
We used to refer to the porch as Fallujah(Iraq). Due to the piles of concrete, bricks and sand.