You are so screwed if you hit a pipe. It will be a very expensive hole needed to fix. And don't put it off. Many or most of those sinkhole horrors are the result of -not a cavern collapse- but broken pipes. Slowly washing the dirt out from under your yard/house.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 9:35 AM Frank Znidarsic <fznidar...@aol.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Znidarsic <fznidar...@aol.com> > To: mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> > Sent: Mon, Aug 3, 2020 10:33 am > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Covid back yard well project progress report > > The house has been here for 70 years no collapse yet. I have found that > the water only comes out when it has rained a lot. Its like a rain spout > water coming out while raining and dry other times. > > > I have not given up. I would like to use this water to water a garden net > year. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robin <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> > To: Frank Znidarsic <fznidar...@aol.com> > Sent: Sun, Aug 2, 2020 9:04 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Covid back yard well project progress report > > In reply to Frank Znidarsic's message of Mon, 3 Aug 2020 00:52:20 +0000 > (UTC): > Hi Frank, > [snip] > > >I jack hammered down 6 feed then I drove a well point the rest of the way > in to 21 feet or more. At first I got this. > >http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/temp/sucks.mp4 > > > >Then a few feet deeper I got this. > >http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/temp/blows.mp4 > > > You sure you haven't hit a water main? > > ...actually, sucking may be due to an underground stream running through a > space that is larger than it is. As the water > runs through it acts as a sort of vacuum pump. > > ...too much water...that's what taps are for. :) > >