New Article on Low Producing or Low Yield Water Wells - Over Pumping Well Water Causes Problems – Low Yield Well – Can your water well be ov...

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New Article on Low Producing or Low Yield Water Wells - Over Pumping Well Water Causes Problems – Low Yield Well – Can your water well be over-pumped?
Over Pumping Well Water Causes Problems – Low Yield Well – Can your water well be over-pumped?

By Mr. Brian Oram, Professional Geologist

The simple and direct answer is Yes. A water well can be over-pumped and when this occurs the actions can cause premature failure of pumps and motors, damage the wellbore integrity, decrease the wellbore yield, impact produced water quality, and ultimately decrease rate of production.

In most cases when a new well is drilled, the well driller reports the blown yield of the well. This is typically the amount of water the driller can physically blow out the top of the well over a short period of time or in a very few cases this may be the rate they were able to pump from the well for a short time period. This period of time is multiple hours, but more likely at most 1 hour. This is not the long-term sustainable yield from the well and in many cases, this is all the water that was in the well.
https://carbonwaters.org/2024/09/over-pumping-well-water-causes-problems-low-yield-well-can-your-water-well-be-over-pumped/

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