Our well is something over 300’ down. I’m wondering if the pump isn’t good. Just a guess. We had the new well dug about 4 years ago. Seems like we’re using a lot more electricity now. I’m not sure of the GPM output. Our water comes out of the facet ok, nothing great though. I think it’s a bit on the slow side.
The pump can be good, but pumping into a restriction or excessive back-pressure that causes the power usage to go up - waaaaay up.
Most of the time, people with wells never think much about friction losses and excessive “head pressure” (ie, pressure at the head of a well). That is, until they’re in your situation, where you have a finite amount of energy at your daily disposal, and you find yourself saying “Wow, a huge chunk of our energy usage is spent getting water out of the ground.”
If you can get those pressure (PSI) and GPM numbers, then if you can get the HP and/or model # of your well pump flip me a message a PM and I can run some numbers for you on what your pump “should” be pulling for power draw. We used to own a farm in Nevada with four irrigation wells and a domestic well.... so I’ve been down this road with wells that had power bills in the $3K to $5K/month range. It costs a lot of money to pump 1200 GPM out of a well 235’ deep at 30 PSI...