Simple water well cost

[jerrymrc]

$100 per foot +/-.

I hope you mean $10?

[Wulf202]

"If you figure about $18 to $20 per foot for a completed well with casing and pump you will be pretty close. Most wells in the surrounding mountain areas west of Trinidad are between 400 to 800 feet deep on average. Recently I have heard the cost to drill an 800 foot well is about $15,000 not including the cost of installing the pump and that pump for an 800 foot deep well could cost between $6,000 and $12,000 depending on pump size and other factors."

http://www.adobegold.com/property-in...do-water-info/

[theGinsue]

Holy cow.

It sounds like well drilling is a very lucrative business.

[offgrid]

I hope you mean $10?

oops, typo. Dug up the paper work on our well. 450' deep, $5200.

[HBARleatherneck]

i dont think you can pull water from that deep with a hand pump. when i looked at them it was something like 100 feet or less. also, you cant just go get a well permit. there is a rather complicated way they figure out if you can even have one. this is a state issue. then you also get to deal with the county. for example i have 80.275 acres. i split it in a 70.3 acre parcel and a 9. whatever parcel. now neither one is eligible ever again for another well. even though the county would allow the split, they wont actually allow the split since there is no water permit available. (of course with lots of money and plans you could probably get around it)

my well was something like $13-15k 410 feet, total.
my inlaws well east of brighton is almost 1200 feet. it gets expensive.

i wasnt implying you didnt know all the facts, but if you didnt these are some of them.

[KevDen2005]

Wow, that is nuts. My grandparents in Kansas had two wells. One that was from the 1800's that was only about 30 feet deep and another they had drilled at 120 feet. I thought that was a lot!!! Did not realize how deep some wells actually got.

[HBARleatherneck]

the state mandates what aquafir you must drill into. period. so some areas are shallower then others. also shallow wells usually have lesser quality water. the deeper it comes from, the cleaner (from my understanding)
we actually have one well that is 90 feet deep. it was from the original homstead. circa 1920-30's/ We have water in our well at 150. because that is where the pump is. I lived at a place near Erie, that had a hand pump well that was about 30 feet deep. The water sucked, but there was water at that depth.

now its about population density, water tables, old, old water rights, beauracracy. and hopefully health concerns.