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25 viewsRegular Surface Dug Well: The basic materials for a hand dug well is a prefabricated concrete circular drainage ring drainage ringlike the one shown at the left. The drainage assembly comes in 3 basic diameters, 1 meter, 1.2 meter and 1.5 meters. Each piece has a depth of about 30 cm., so there are about 3 per meter. The smaller diameter is normally sufficient for a single house. (19-Apr-04) dozer
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25 viewsHere is a similar version about 2 years old. They tend to age rather quickly due to water seepage and generally look kind of ugly. (21-Apr-04)dozer
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25 viewsSurface Well Problems: The side of the well needs to be filled in with small stones, to prevent air and water pockets forming outside the well. (12-Jul-04)dozer
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25 viewsThe improper final set caused water pockets around the side of the well, which eventually burst the side causing water to rapidly flow in, bring in dirt. To correct this we pumped out the water and patched the large gaping hole.dozer
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24 viewsHere the well is now prepared for a cement base.dozer
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24 viewsQuite amazingly, originally, the well digger had put in big chunks of broken up blocks instead of rocks, thus saving about 20 minutes of labor time. Later we dug these blocks out from the side of the well.dozer
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24 viewsA wheel is used to help bring the dirt to the surface. (19-Jul-04)dozer
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23 viewsOnce the wells starts getting deep the digger will descent using a rope. (09-Apr-04)dozer
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23 viewsStones like this need to be placed around the well.dozer
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22 viewsCommunal Wells: This is an example of a communal well. Everyone in the immediate area is serviced by this well and water tower. As of the time of this picture, there was basically no water service 23 hours a day each and every day. Most everyone was trying to sell their house or townhouse in the area, makes you wonder if it is possible to sell a house with no water? (19-Apr-04)dozer
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21 viewsVARIOUS OPTIONS: This shot shows a nice application of a diagonal section which can be used to make entry easier. The diagonal section can be added at each side of the entry gate. (01-Jan-04)dozer
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