Rodgers Drilling started work on Monday, November 30, 2020, by pulling out the pump. On Tuesday, December 1, they cleaned the inside of the casing with a plastic brush. When they were done, we set up a hose from the vault, feeding 2-3 gpm fresh water from the distribution system.
Well #3 pitless 
Well #3 pitless 
Well #3 
Well #3 pump 
Well #3 drop pipe 
Well #3 pump 
Well #3 motor 
Well #3 Brush 
Well #3 Inspection 
Well #3 Inspection
Checking the hose Thursday afternoon, after two days of freezing temperatures, the flow was down to a trickle. Opened the hose bibb to get about 2.5 gpm, which ran for about 16 hours, until 8:45 Friday morning.
On Friday, Rodgers Drilling used their video inspection rig to drop a camera to capture the video linked below. The camera reached the water surface at 181′, indicating that a substantial amount of water from the hose had accumulated, and was not flowing out of the well back into the aquifer. At the end of the inspection, as the camera was coming up, the water surface was 207′, having dropped 26′ in about an hour.
Well #3 Inspection Video, December 4, 2020
On Thursday, December 17, 2020, a Rodgers Drilling crew came out and ran a wire brush for about three hours, followed by about two hours of running a swab tool. This added about 3′ of debris to the sump. On Friday, they chlorinated the well and then put everything back together with the original pump, motor, drop pipe, cable, and two air tubes. There was some slight problem when starting the pump with the rotary phase convertor starting ok, with the pump control tripping with low load condition (presumably because of the air in the drop pipe). By adjusting the control, the pump was able to run. The intention was to run the pump for just a minute or two, and then leave the well off for several days for the chlorine to perform. However. the discharge was very black, so the pump was left running to avoid any sediment settling back and locking the pump. After about an hour, the discharge cleared.
Later investigation of the black water samples showed that black material settled out after several days, and is magnetic, so it is mostly some form of iron.
wire brush 
swab tool 
cable on spool 
wellhead wiring 
initial discharge after cleaning
