Anybody ever fill a well?

Each State's Department of Water Resources will (should) have a handbook on groundwater well abandonment that looks similar to this.

http://www.azwater.gov/azdwr/WaterManagement/NOI/documents/AbandonmentHandbook2008.pdf

You can either self-perform, or hire the work out to abandonment specialists, proper documentation is required.

If it is an old cistern, you are excavating and disposing of, make sure the excavated material is not considered hazardous. If you don't need to reclaim the ground in the area of the cistern then disconnect and abandon all piping, backfill it and bury it in place.

 

Since we're talking hypothetically; If there was this hypothetical sink hole that took about 5 ton of gravel to fill and if it came back another 5 years later a bunch of moist sakrete would go down the actual hole followed by about another 3 ton of gravel. Hypothetically of course. Also, any hypothetical water that could be draining to the area would be hypothetically re-routed.

 

Put a piece of plywood over it to keep the creepy girl in there.

 

Punch a hole in the bottom to let any water intrusion leak through so it doesn’t float

 

This would be roughly 3’ wide by 20’ deep and stone lined. No piping or wires attached.

 

Just re-read the instructions on filling in the same type of well. Layers of 3'of sand followed by 6" of neat cement until it is full.

 

Is there a RING involved here?

 

Originally thinking it was a well they called for betonit or whatever it’s called and 3/4 clean stone. Cisterns require Portland cement mix(neat concrete) and sand..

 

If you were standing over an access panel to death , on a completely rotted floor , I can’t see how one would not think that. I can’t even imagine what that might feel like...

 

I filled an old well on our family‘s property in NC. It was a shallow hand-dug well, still flowing, but no longer useful. It had been covered with raw pine boards when the well was abandoned by the tenant back in the late 1970s, and the boards were rotted through. Filled with sand, then cement grout, and placed a permanent marker. NC requires that a report be sent to the NC Dept of Environment and Natural Resources detailing the work.

We still have one active well on the property, even though the county ran water to us back in the late 1990s. The well water is better quality than the county water, even though it is full of minerals.

 

Tralfaz was Astro's real name. I think Hanna Barbera stole it from Timmy's parents or some shit.

 

Never filled one, but this was my view a couple weeks ago as I had to run a new water line after it split. I succeeded in jamming a 3/4" pex line down through the old 1 1/4" pvc line. I will dig it all up in the summer and run some conduit and new lines, but for now the 3/4" pex is doing fine. Fun times...

 

Find a logging crew, they fill those things all the damn time. Maybe not up to environmental code since they just take whatever machine with a blade is around and fill the thing so nobody falls in. Great way to dispose of bodies since they aren't marked and there's no sign of the well when they're done.

 

Shhhhh. We had another well on the property that my great uncles dug...

 

but it effs up the water for quite a while.

 

I don't doubt it. These crews are typically working forest land away from urban and rural populations. And they really don't give a damn about much.

 

Yeah. Size does matter, don't believe the motion in the ocean foolishness [emoji16]

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