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5/0 · 03-10-2013, 01:29 PM

Hey Guys a fellow S-B member has a well water system and it's spitting out sand intermittently,I would assume this is happening due to all of the snow and rain.

Symptoms are;
Turn on the faucet water comes out for a bit then the pressure drops then PSI increase's and water will cone back out with a mixture of sand.

I don't know anything about well pumps but I would assume that sediment has been up kicked from the recent storms and it's taking resident inside the housing of the impeller veins of the pump, or the pump is su(king up chit from the bottom of the well(pump came lose and fell to the bottom) and debris is inside the impeller.

Has anybody else have a similar problem?

Westportmafia will chime in on all of the other details.

03-10-2013, 01:29 PM	#1
5/0 Eels iTrader: (0) Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Cape Cod,MA. Posts: 3,324	Well water system spitting sand Hey Guys a fellow S-B member has a well water system and it's spitting out sand intermittently,I would assume this is happening due to all of the snow and rain. Symptoms are; Turn on the faucet water comes out for a bit then the pressure drops then PSI increase's and water will cone back out with a mixture of sand. I don't know anything about well pumps but I would assume that sediment has been up kicked from the recent storms and it's taking resident inside the housing of the impeller veins of the pump, or the pump is su(king up chit from the bottom of the well(pump came lose and fell to the bottom) and debris is inside the impeller. Has anybody else have a similar problem? Westportmafia will chime in on all of the other details.