Air in Well Water System

Mark R.

Thanks to all of you for your responses. I notice the air at the faucets. I get little spurts of air (sometimes)as the water is running. These are short spurts. The black pipe I mentioned is black plastic pipe. I did have a water treatment pro look at the system. The well is 57' deep and the water is 28'below the well head. The pump is 5' off the bottom. I'm sure the water is well above the pump. Before it was worked on, I have heard the pump kick on when on (rarely) water was being run, but not since then. Thanks again for your help. More comments welcome.

Mark R.

This is off the topic of the Wall, but I respect the experience of the Wallies. My well water system gets a little air in the system. I have a submersible pump, pressure tank (checked for bad bladder), up flow neutralizer, and water softener. I just replaced the check valve above the pump. It was OK for a couple days after replacing the check valve, but now I have a little air again. I checked the pipe (heavy black 1"). Does anyone have any ideas what else could cause this problem. I know you guys are experts (I'm an homeowner), so I thought you might have come across this problem. Thanks, Mark R.

Ericjeeper

air..

If you are getting air.. seems odd as everything above your submerged pump is working under pressure.
Explain to us how you are noticing the air? seeing it at the faucets?> or what exactly.. If no faucets in the house are open, does the pump kick on?

Plumdog_2

I don't claim to be a well man

but I have seen air enter the potable system when the pump cavitates because the water level is low. There is a device which measures amperage draw on the hot legs to the well pump and cuts off the juice when it senses low head or lack of water. By the way; why do you have Black Pipe on your potable water system?

Mark Hunt

Worst water I have ever seen


was from a well so loaded with CO2 that the customer could bottle his tap water and sell it as Club Soda.

Aboslutely wreaked havoc with the heating system. I think his wife wanted me to have a new well drilled to solve the issue. That did not happen.

Couple things it could be, better to get a water treatment pro out there to check it out.

Mark H

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A.J.

Air in well water

Mark I had the same thing happen to one of my clients. We changed the submersable pump and still got air in the water supply. So we pulled the pump and pressurized the drop line and found a split in the old brass insert fitting that was bleeding of the water pressure. I know it doesn't make sense air getting in a pressurized water line but it did. Probably because we had a spring check on the inlet of the presure tank and it held pressure even after the drop line bleed out.
Hopes this helps.

Joe.G

I have black pipe on mine also, but anyway, my buddy intalles well for a living, he told me that a sigh of a pump going bad is getting air in the system, that or the pressure tank is going bad, have you check the pressure in the tank? if not I would check it and if it is low fill it up 2 to 4 lb less then your pressure switch low setting. Give it a coulpe of days and see if it stays at the pressure you set it at. ( shut the pump and drain the tank before checking the pressure)I also installed to back flow vavles on mine one by teh pressure tank and one down by the pump (there is usaly one built in to teh pump but they don't work well I just had all 3 go bad on my after about 7 years)