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Jan.29,2010The mess was everywherepklongball
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Jan.29,2010The water,sand, granite that was coming out of the bore. Almost finishedpklongball
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Jan.29,2010Work continuespklongball
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Jan.29,2010And morepklongball
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Jan.30,2010Day 3 they crew came back with the Franklin 1 hp pump and control, the automatic pressure switch and several lengths of blue PVC. They wired up the pump and attached the blue pvc in 4 meter lengths and dropped the pump down the hole. pklongball
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Jan.30,2010Pump goes first.pklongball
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Jan.30,2010Then about 25 or 30 meters of pvcpklongball
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Jan.30,2010The bore is capped with a steel pipe fitting and then more pvc to the controlpklongball
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Jan.30,2010Once it's all connected the boys made a quick test to be sure the pump would operate and ran it to see how much flow we had. They ran the pump a good 30 minutes with no shortage of water.pklongball
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Jan.30,2010I'm holding the pressure switch that will operate the pump control. I saw no brand name or where it was made and the install booklet disappeared before I could find it. But I know it will start the pump at about 20 psi and stop it at about 55 psi.pklongball
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Jan.30,2010Another view of the pressure control showing the built on pressure gauge. Nice to have.pklongball
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Jan.30,2010The area after the well is almost finishedpklongball
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