Eliminating Naturally-Occurring Shale Oil in Well Water
Vic
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In an arid area of the CA Inner East Bay, have had potential water well sites Witched.
Have had three well Test Holes drilled. The only real candidate for a domestic water well, which has an estimated water production of 3 - 5 GPM, also has what the driller calls, an "excess amount of shale oil" (black streaks in the water being air, blown out of the well). This is not cased, or otherwise a finished well -- no pump.
Know that with a finished, cased well, and using a pump that is well below the surface of the water, this oil production would be reduced. BUT, there will be some oil suspended (or "dissolved", etc).
The driller is experienced in these matters, and judged that this was an excessive amount of oil. Most other water wells do not have excessive oil. We are probably at least 50 miles from any Fracking, or fracking waste water injection wells.
Have searched for water treatment systems that are designed to deal with this situation, and, mostly find treatments of fracked water.
Looking for small-scale treatment systems, which will not require large amounts of disposible filter media, etc.
Of course, the best way to know the real magnitude of the is to finish this hole, into a well, at an additional cost of about $25K, without a pump/cable, etc. The difficulty/hassle/expense of any treatment should really drive the decision of weather or not, to finish this hole, into a real well.
Thanks for suggestions -- have collected rain water at this site for the past 18 years, but have been looking for a more convenient water source.
TIA, Vic
Have had three well Test Holes drilled. The only real candidate for a domestic water well, which has an estimated water production of 3 - 5 GPM, also has what the driller calls, an "excess amount of shale oil" (black streaks in the water being air, blown out of the well). This is not cased, or otherwise a finished well -- no pump.
Know that with a finished, cased well, and using a pump that is well below the surface of the water, this oil production would be reduced. BUT, there will be some oil suspended (or "dissolved", etc).
The driller is experienced in these matters, and judged that this was an excessive amount of oil. Most other water wells do not have excessive oil. We are probably at least 50 miles from any Fracking, or fracking waste water injection wells.
Have searched for water treatment systems that are designed to deal with this situation, and, mostly find treatments of fracked water.
Looking for small-scale treatment systems, which will not require large amounts of disposible filter media, etc.
Of course, the best way to know the real magnitude of the is to finish this hole, into a well, at an additional cost of about $25K, without a pump/cable, etc. The difficulty/hassle/expense of any treatment should really drive the decision of weather or not, to finish this hole, into a real well.
Thanks for suggestions -- have collected rain water at this site for the past 18 years, but have been looking for a more convenient water source.
TIA, Vic
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While we do not have too much use for non-potable water, have sure been leaning toward having this hole in the ground developed into a well.
Thank you very much, take care, Vic
If we make the best test hole candidate, into a well, we have about $12.5K US, in surplus test holes -- test holes are $20/foot, with that amount credited re-drilling that hole, into a developed well.
Glad that you have a reasonable well, there.
The present plan is to roll the dice, on the hole, mentioned above. Thanks, Vic
I was getting prices of 13 to 30k just for the pump set up .
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Put the first pipe on the pump , tie on 6 ‘ safety rope , crimp on wires and heat seal with water Proof wire splice .
Tape wire every 10 ‘ add cable guards every 20’ and check valves 20’ from the pump and every 200’
What could go wrong ? Short of getting a bad pump or dropping it down the hole .
Of course I don’t make cookies all day long so a do have a certain amount of experience doing mechanical things .