I’ve got a 32’ deep, 6’ wide well I’m told is an artesian well under my office floor.
It’s kinda low right now so my kids dad climbed down to take a closer look today and it made me wonder how did they install it?
It’s cinder blocks with a spiral of stairs to some concrete thing and then other stuff deeper.
How did they keep the hole dry to get all that work done?
My water table is so high it’s only down ten feet by this time of the year and overflows in the winter. [well ](https://imgur.com/gallery/UBbCDyq) water is actually seeping in from above the waterline.
The water table is so high I doubt that hole was ever empty or low enough to do the work without some cool engineering feats.
My home is in Northern California and the well is older than my 80 year old home obviously.
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Wells don’t fill instantly, the water seeps in slowly. So basically they just dig down till the water flows in faster than they can bucket it out and then build up the brick walls from there.
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Typically an artesian well has a static water level above grade. Meaning if the top of the well is at grade, the water would be overflowing over the top of the well. I guess technically, this well could be set in an artesian aquifer and just be located at a higher elevation.
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