The simple answer to Connie’s question is yes. You probably can drill your own well on your property. You, of course, would have to contact your local building department to see if there are any regulations that must be followed.

No one knows for sure how much oil there is in a given area until people drill there, but geologists can make an educated guess. Geologists can measure the density of underground rocks by sending radio waves into the ground and measuring the speed with which they reflect back to the surface.

Some of the important factors affecting production are: Structural position;thickness, porosity and grain size of the sand; gas pressure and hydrostaticpressure; viscosity, capillarity, adhesion and surface tension of the oil;dissolved and occluded gases; isothermal expansion and the gas-oil ratio inlifting the oil.

The well site should be elevated enough to direct surface runoff away from it. 6. Saltwater intrusion can affect shallow groundwater near the coast, so wells should be placed away from shore or drilled into a deep aquifer. 7.

Most of the time wells are at least 10 feet from the property line. That means your well and your neighbour’s well are at least 20 feet apart.

One way to go would be to tee of the existing well to a second pump (if you have an above ground pump) and pressure tank. The pressure tank would be at the second house but the new additional pump would be at the well. All possible if the well can provide the volume of water when both pumps are drawing water.

You can’t suck the water up more than about 25 feet, but once you get the pump behind the water you can push it virtually forever. The maximum theoretical suction height of the water, at sea level, is about 10.33 meters.

33.9 feet

The pump at ground level acts as the source of vacuum and has a theoretical lifting capability of about 30 feet (It would lift 34 feet if it could create a perfect vacuum). In practice, 25 feet is all you should design a centrifugal or jet pump to lift in order to have adequate capacity left for water usage.

A one-line or single-line jet pump can only lift water about 7.5 meters or 25 feet. A two line jet pump of the same horsepower will have no trouble lifting water 60 feet. watch out: if the pump rate out of the well exceeds the well’s water in-flow rate then you’ll pump the well dry.

A 1/2 Hp pump should be able to push water up hill 40 ft without problems.

From this chart, you can see that a 1 horsepower pump (the green curve) will give you 52 GPM flow on a system with 64 feet of head.

5 gpm (two fixtures running simultaneously at 2.5 gpm) is a good estimate of peak demand, for the typical household. Water wells that reliably yield 5 gpm should be able to meet peak and daily needs for most residences. Wells yielding less than 5 gpm, however, are sometimes the only water source available.

A well that yields only 1 GPM of water can still produce 1,440 gallons of water in day. Without water-saving appliances and fixtures, the water use during this 2-hour period could exceed 300 gallons. A 1-GPM well could only provide 120 gallons of water during this peak demand period, far short of what would be needed.

Most people don’t know all of this information, but it can be figured out by consulting with a water system professional. The Water Well Board suggests that the minimum water supply capacity for use inside a home should be at least 600 gallons within a two-hour period, or about 5 gallons per minute for 2 hours.

If a standard showerhead is fitted, it will use around an extra half a gallon each minute, accounting for a 25-gallon emittance every 10 minutes, or 50 gallons throughout a 20-minute shower.

If a standard showerhead is fit, the shower will likely emit around an extra half gallon of water per minute, so a 5-minute shower will use in the region of 12.5 gallons.

Most people use about 30 gallons of water for a bath, according to industry estimates. A standard showerhead uses 2.5 gallons a minute, or 25 gallons for 10 minutes. Either way, the shower saves water – as long as you don’t go past 10 minutes. The shorter the shower, the greater the savings.

A bath filled about a third of the way up (which takes the water level over your belly button when you lie down) requires around 75 litres. An ordinary electrically heated shower puts out four litres per minute. So a 19-minute shower is just more than a bath.

A typical shower is cheaper than a typical bath. It will vary of course depending on exactly how long your showers are, how much water you use in a bath, how big your body is, etc. But on average it appears that showers are more frugal for average adults.

If your bath is too hot, you’re at risk of parching your skin in the long run. And finally, put aside your worries about baths being unhygienic. “The dirt tends to settle away from the skin and body. It gets diluted in the entirety of the bathwater,” she says.

It is estimated that it costs between 30p and 90p to take an 150 liter bath, depending on the efficiency of your boiler. If you are taking a bath twice a day, you would use an average of 300 liters of water each day, at a daily cost of £1.20 and an annual cost of £438.

In fact, assuming you heat by gas with a reasonably efficient system, only about 40% of the cost of your shower or bath is for the heating. 22p for a shower may not sound like much, but if you do that every day, that comes to £80/year. Two baths a week would cost you £37/year.

Using U.S. averages, in 2019, the average shower costs about $0.57 if you use an electric hot water heater, or $0.40 for those heating with natural gas.

Given the cost of gas is only about 40% that of electricity, in theory, a mixer or power shower might be more cost efficient than an electric shower. However, electric showers usually use less water and therefore require less energy, so a lot depends on how long you are showering for.

The average American shower uses 17.2 gallons (65.1 liters) and lasts for 8.2 minutes at average flow rate of 2.1 gallons per minute (gpm) (7.9 lpm).

Some dermatologists only recommend a shower every other day, or two to three times a week. Many people hit the shower at least once a day, either in the morning or at night before bed. Depending on the day and your activity level, you might even take two or three showers.