Simple water well cost

[offgrid]

I hope you mean $10?

oops, typo. Dug up the paper work on our well. 450' deep, $5200.

[HBARleatherneck]

i dont think you can pull water from that deep with a hand pump. when i looked at them it was something like 100 feet or less. also, you cant just go get a well permit. there is a rather complicated way they figure out if you can even have one. this is a state issue. then you also get to deal with the county. for example i have 80.275 acres. i split it in a 70.3 acre parcel and a 9. whatever parcel. now neither one is eligible ever again for another well. even though the county would allow the split, they wont actually allow the split since there is no water permit available. (of course with lots of money and plans you could probably get around it)

my well was something like $13-15k 410 feet, total.
my inlaws well east of brighton is almost 1200 feet. it gets expensive.

i wasnt implying you didnt know all the facts, but if you didnt these are some of them.

[KevDen2005]

Wow, that is nuts. My grandparents in Kansas had two wells. One that was from the 1800's that was only about 30 feet deep and another they had drilled at 120 feet. I thought that was a lot!!! Did not realize how deep some wells actually got.

[HBARleatherneck]

the state mandates what aquafir you must drill into. period. so some areas are shallower then others. also shallow wells usually have lesser quality water. the deeper it comes from, the cleaner (from my understanding)
we actually have one well that is 90 feet deep. it was from the original homstead. circa 1920-30's/ We have water in our well at 150. because that is where the pump is. I lived at a place near Erie, that had a hand pump well that was about 30 feet deep. The water sucked, but there was water at that depth.

now its about population density, water tables, old, old water rights, beauracracy. and hopefully health concerns.

[ChunkyMonkey]

$100 per foot +/-. You are going to have to get a permit from the state of Colorado, a well driller will not drill your well without a permit.

Mine costed $2400 for 170ft - Drilling cost only.

[Irving]

My great great grandpa lived on our land for three years back in 1909. They had a hand dug well back then. This is the land out by HBARLeatherneck. I don't know how deep the hand dug well was though. Back then, if you wanted to buy land here, you had to live on it for at least three years. So great great grandpa came out here from West Virginia and lived here for three years. It takes me an hour and a half to get out there from my house doing 80 mph most of the way. I can't imagine making the trip back in 1910.