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Water Well Bore Alignment & Plumbness
Standards for straightness of Well Bores
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Water well bores or drilled well casings need to be straight and more-or-less plumb. A bore that is not straight may not be able to have its pump installed or may cause vibration and failure of some well pump types.
Here we list standards and procedures for assuring a properly straight and sufficiently plumb drilled well bore or casing and we explain why those parameters are important.
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Water Well Bore Alignment & Plumbness
Question: deep well deviation limit from vertical/plumbline
2020/07/05 Anon by private email said:
What is deep well deviation limit from vertical / plumbline ?
Any material for deviation measurement please share. - Anon, Lahore, Pakistan
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Moderator reply: Drift or plumbness vs Alignment of water wells
Ahmed
Thank you for asking a very helpful question; I will add a section to our article above, in which I will list standards for water well bore plumbness and alignment. Meanwhile one of my preferred sources on water well bore or casing alignment and plumbness, because of its clear and direct language is the following:
Drift or plumbness is the amount a given borehole deviates from true vertical. Alignment is the measure of straightness, or conversely the lack of excessive twists or doglegs. A well can be straight but not plumb, but a perfectly plumb well will always be straight.
Alignment is the more important factor in a well, since a pump (particularly turbines) cannot be installed if the well is crooked beyond a certain amount.
Lack of plumbness by itself does not affect pump installation and only at extremes may impact pump life and operation; therefore, insufficient plumbness (or excessive drift) is rarely a problem encountered in modern well construction.
B. STANDARDS.
The AWWA standard allows a drift deviation of two/thirds the well's inside diameter per one hundred feet of depth.
The EPA standard is a deviation from plumbness of one degree per fifty feet of depth (Johnson, Groundwater and Wells 2d. page 333).
It is not uncommon, however, to see requirements as tight as three inches per hundred feet in recent projects.
Note that the problem with each of these standards is that a well which is sufficiently straight to accept the pump may fail the test.
Conversely, a well can meet the drift standard yet still have a tight enough bend in the casing to prevent the installation of the pump.
-source: Indiana State Department of Health cited below.
Reader follow-up:
The AWWA standard allows a drift deviation of two/thirds the well's inside diameter per one hundred feet of depth.
If a well ( 18 inch inner Dia casingis) is 250 ft deep then does it mean according to AWWA standards the allowable deviation is 30 inch??? I have to check 250 ft casing (18 inch) for pump lowering.
Considering 2/3 of inner Dia per hundred ft.
Moderator reply:
I make it .66 x 18 = 11.9 inches spread uniformly over 100 ft.
Do you agree?
Reader follow-up:
Sure I fully agree. Extending the same for 300 ft
Would it be. 66*18*3=36 inch approximately? Almost 2.5 ft. Allowable deviation?
It is a big value ...so I want to ask is this standard valid for 300 ft. ?
Moderator reply: acceptable well bore alignment variation must be distributed over bore depth not concentrated in one spot
Above: long, rigid submersible pumps and well piping, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
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The blue submersible pump shown here was bolted to large-diameter galvanized iron pipe and certainly would have jammed if being forced down a drilled well casing that was out of alignment by greater than the recommended standards we discuss here.
I think that's right (keep in mind I'm not a well engineer) - but what's critical is the distribution of the variance.
That deviation, to be acceptable, would have to be spread uniformly over the entire depth of the well casing.
As I understand it, any bend that's sharper would be unacceptable.
You can't sneak in a sharper bend over a shorter distance and then pretend you've averaged it over the whole well depth.
To be clear, the issue isn't that a well casing is not straight or plumb, it's that if it's too out of plumb or too crooked over a too-short distance then the pump or piping will bind.
The Indiana DOH statement makes this objective clear while giving no number at all. But we need a number to make sense of the guideline.
Watch out: also in my OPINION that the risk of binding up a pump in a well casing or bore also depends on the dimensions of the pump itself. As you probably know better than I, some pump models are much longer than others.
2.6 Plumbness and Alignment Each drilled well should be tested for plumbness and alignment.
The bore of the hole should be suciently plumb and straight that the casing will not bind as it is installed.
The casing should be suciently plumb and straight that it will not interfere with installation and operation of the pump.
Water Well Bore or Casing Alignment & Plumbness Standards & Measurement Procedures
- AWWA, A100-15 WATER WELLS STANDARD, (Strawn 2019)
Excerpt: Appendix D: Maximum allowable horizontal distance between the actual well centerline and a straight line representing the proposed pump centerline shall not exceed one-half of the difference between the inside diameter of the casing and the desired maximum outside diameter of the proposed pump to be installed. - AWWA,
A100-90: STANDARD FOR WATER WELLS [PDF] available at: https://www.awwa.org/Store/Product-Details/productId/18417
Description:
This standard covers the construction of water wells ranging in nominal diameter from 8 in. (200 mm) through 30 in. (750 mm). Certain minimum requirements are presented that can be incorporated by reference into the purchaser's specifications.
This standard is intended for large municipal and industrial wells that are constructed using normal well-drilling techniques. Major topics covered are: investigation of geologic/hydrologic conditions and groundwater quality; construction; well casings; well screens; gravel pack; grouting and sealing; plumbness and alignment; well development; performance testing; well disinfection; water quality testing; and abandonment of test holes, partially completed wells, and completed wells.
Appendices cover gravel pack installation methods, grouting and sealing methods of placement; plumbness and alignment procedure for testing; methods of measuring operating parameters during development, water sampling; factors influencing the duration of pumping test; abandonment of test holes, partially completed wells, and completed wells; geophysical bore-hole logs; types of wells; and collapse strength of well casing. - Brooks, Andrew G., and Harry Wilson. "An improved method for computing wellbore position uncertainty and its application to collision and target intersection probability analysis." In European Petroleum Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1996.
- CGA. Article 400–WATER WELL DRIFT & ALIGNMENT TESTING [PDF] - Adopted by the CGA Board of Directors on April 11, 1992 - California Groundwater Association Website: www.groundh2o.org , retrieved 2020/07/05, original source: groundh2o.org/resources/Documents/article_400.pdf
- DePonty, Jersy D.
, Shane P. DePinto
, Grant S. Kornrumph
, and Marvin F. Glotfelty, WATER WELL PLUMBNESS AND ALIGNMENT STANDARDS –
ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OPERATIONAL APPLICABILITY [PDF] - retrieved 2020/07/05 original source: http://azwwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/PA-article.pdf
Excerpt:
This study considered two common water well standards to evaluate plumbness and alignment criteria; the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Standard for Water Wells (A100-06) and the standard detailed in the Handbook of Ground Water Development (Roscoe Moss Company, 1990).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plumbness standard of 1 degree of deviation per 50 feet is also common, but was not included in this study since it is much less stringent than the AWWA or Roscoe Moss standards, and was not applicable to the wells being evaluated.
The AWWA standard is common in the water well industry and is widely used by municipalities, private utilities, industry and consultants.
The Roscoe Moss standard provides the primary basis for the plumbness and alignment requirements used in the current SRP well drilling specification.
Both of these standards are appropriate for large diameter water production wells, and are applicable to the use of line-shaft vertical turbine pumps. - Drilling Today, "NECESSITY OF PLUMBNESS AND ALIGNMENT OF WATER WELLS" in Drilling Today, Drilling Today House, A-145, Lehri Marg, Shivpuri, Airport Road, Airport Road Sanganer, Jaipur 302011 INDIA 91
Telefax: +91 141 2793166, 2792336 Mobile: +91 9414 219 166, +91 9460 435 474
Visit:www.dthrotarydrilling.com Write us: drillingtoday@yahoo.com retrieved 2020/07/05 original source: https://www.dthrotarydrilling.com/Technical-paper/Alignment-Water-Wells/Necessity-Plumbness-Alignment-Water-Wells.html
Excerpt:
A borehole may be straight but not plumb, if the borehole is plumb it will be straight. In practice some tolerance of deviation is straightness and plumpness is permissible. In a conventional drilling a deviation from plumpness of 2/3rd the wells inside diameter per 100 ft (30.5 mts) of an anticipated pump setting is permissible, considering various difficulties of drilling in different types of formation.
Out of two factors, the straightness of the bore hole is most important, because it gives an idea whether or not particular size of pump can be lowered up to the desired depth of a constructed well. - Hossain, M. M., M. K. Rahman, and S. S. Rahman. "Hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation: roles of wellbore trajectory, perforation and stress regimes." Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 27, no. 3-4 (2000): 129-149.
- Indiana State Department of Health, RECOMMENDED STANDARDS for PRIVATE WATER WELLS - Section 2.6 PLUMBNESS & ALIGNMENT [PDF] - Indiana State Department of Health
Environmental Public Health Division
100 N. Senate Ave., N855
Indianapolis, IN 46204 USA
(317) 233-1325 retrieved 2020/07/05 original source: www.in.gov/isdh/23258.htm
Excerpt:
2.6 Plumbness and Alignment Each drilled well should be tested for plumbness and alignment.
The bore of the hole should be suciently plumb and straight that the casing will not bind as it is installed.
The casing should be suciently plumb and straight that it will not interfere with installation and operation of the pump. - Knapp, Seth R. "Method and apparatus for straightening well bore holes." U.S. Patent 2,829,864, issued April 8, 1958.
- Mcneely, Jr Branch M. "Means for controlling directional deviations in a well bore." U.S. Patent 3,043,381, issued July 10, 1962.
- NGWA, NGWA-01-14 Water Well Construction Standard, National Ground Water Association 601 Dempsey Rd. Westerville, OH 43081 USA customerservice@ngwa.org (800) 551-7379 (614) 898-7791
- Proposed NGWA/ANSI WATER WELL CONSTRUCTION STANDARD [PDF] Ground Water Protection Council, Inc. 13308 N MacArthur Blvd Oklahoma City, OK 73142 405-516-4972 , retrieved 2020/07/05 original source: http://www.gwpc.org/sites/default/files/event-sessions/5a_McCray_Kevin_0.pdf
- Rafferty, Kevin. SPECIFICATION of WATER WELLS [PDF] ASHRAE Transactions 107, no. Pt 2 (2001).
Excerpt: For larger wells or those using lineshaft pumps, a more sophisticated test involving a device for measuring deviation of the bore is necessary. - Strawn, Jennifer, "Plumbness and Alignment, Do your wells meet the standard?" in Water Well Journal, January 22, 2019, Email: strawnj2@gmail.com.
Excerpts:
If you’re primarily drilling domestic wells or other small-diameter, shallow wells, it’s not likely a small deviation in plumbness or alignment will cause problems.
However, on deep wells or wells to be equipped with lineshaft turbine pumps, the plumbness, straightness, and alignment of the well is extremely important to the operation of the pumping equipment.
Plumbness is the horizontal deviation of the well centerline from a true vertical centerline. A well can be straight and not plumb.
Alignment refers to horizontal deviation between the actual well centerline and a straight line.
A well that is not plumb or is misaligned (the casing contains bends or “doglegs”) can put excess wear and tear on the pump.
... To test the well for plumbness, you’ll need to complete a plummet test. The plummet test uses a tool constructed of a rigid spindle with two truly round plates or rings at both ends spaced 1.25 times the inside diameter of the casing.
The plates or rings should be ½-inch smaller than the inside diameter of the casing and have holes or some other way for water to pass through it as it is lowered into the well.
The plumb line should be attached exactly in the center of the plummet, and the plummet should weigh enough that the plumb line is kept taut. - Stow, George Raymond Snewin. "Modern Water-well Drilling Techniques In Use In The United Kingdom." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 23, no. 1 (1962): 1-14.
- US EPA, MANUAL of WATER WELL CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES [PDF] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
- USFGS, POTABLE WATER SUPPLY WELLS [PDF] see 3.2.3.2 Test for Plumbness and Alignment,
- Wong, J., Han, L., Stewart, R.R., Bentley, L. and Bancroft, J., 2009. Geophysical well logs from a shallow test well and automatic determination of formation velocities from full-waveform sonic logs. CSEG Rec, 34, pp.21-30.
Excerpt:
The geophysical well logs presented in this study gave useful information regarding the near-surface geological and hydrogeological characteristics of the Paskapoo Formation at the Rothney Observatory site near Priddis, Alberta
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Water is an endangered resource, imperiled by population growth, mega-urbanization, and climate change. Scientists project that by 2050, freshwater shortages will affect 75 percent of the global population. Steven Mithen puts our current crisis in historical context by exploring 10,000 years of humankind’s management of water. Thirst offers cautionary tales of civilizations defeated by the challenges of water control, as well as inspirational stories about how technological ingenuity has sustained communities in hostile environments.
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As we search for modern solutions to today’s water crises, from the American Southwest to China, Mithen also looks for lessons in the past. He suggests that we follow one of the most unheeded pieces of advice to come down from ancient times. In the words of Li Bing, whose waterworks have irrigated the Sichuan Basin since 256 bc, “Work with nature, not against it.” - [5] Pabich, Wendy J., Taking on Water: How One Water Expert Challenged Her Inner Hypocrite, Reduced Her Water Footprint (Without Sacrificing a Toasty Shower), and Found Nirvana, Sasquatch Books (2012), ASIN: B00EB0JTB6, Quoting Amazon product review:
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- "Chemicals and Our Health", Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times, 16 July 2009, p. 27. This outstanding editorial calls for improvements in public health policy to address phthalates and other environmental contaminants from common chemicals and products in everyday use. - DJ Friedman
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- Giardia exposure limits for drinking water: see www.mass.gov/dep/water/drinking/standards/giardia.htm is the current regulatory exposure limit (your minimum target for sterilization)
- Health Effects of Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water, US Environmental Protection Agency,
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- Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story, Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peter Meyers. Plume-Penguin Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-452-27414-1., ISBN13: 9780452274143. This book is a seminal work on endocrine disruptors (chemical contaminants having impact at extremely low levels in the environment).
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- [20] SCALE FORMATION in WATER HEATERS and METHODS of PREVENTION free download as [PDF] Krappe,
Justus Maximilian, Engineering experiment station. Gas engineering bulletin; no. 6; Research series; no. 74; On cover: Engineering bulletin, Purdue university. Vol. xxiv, no. 3a. June, 1940 (Layfayette Indiana) commonly referred to in some references as "Purdue University Bulletin No. 74" - thanks to researcher Robyn Goldstein for the full citation. LCCN: 40028844 & OCLC: 1038544 - Water analysis, water softening, hot-water supply. 27pages.
You can also obtain this document through your local library. (full copy file at InspectAPedia 3/31/2010) Purdue B074 can be hard to locate online.
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SCALE FORMATION in WATER HEATERS - EXCERPTS [PDF] from that document made available by Purdue University. - Silent Spring, Rachael Carson, Mariner Books; Anv edition (October 22, 2002), ISBN-13: 978-061824906.
Amazon.com Review: Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work. - Shock or Chlorinate a Well, When, How-to - Procedure for Shocking a Well to (temporarily or maybe longer) "Correct" Bacterial Contamination
- UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme [ copy on file as /water/Water_Assessment_UNESCO_129556e.pdf ] - , Executive Summary, UNESCO Publishing, Secretariat: C/O UNESCO/Division of Water Sciences, 1 Rue Miollis, F-75732 Paris Cedex 15, Tel: +33.1.45.68.39.28, Email: wwap@unesco.org, websearch 09/10/2010 original source: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001295/129556e.pdf - Quoting:
This report is organized in six main sections: a background, an evaluation of the world’s water resources, an examination of the needs for, the uses of and the demands on water (‘Challenges to Life and Well-Being’), a scrutiny of water management (‘Management Challenges’), seven representative case studies highlighting different water scenarios, and conclusions and annexes. - US EPA: list of drinking water contaminants: see http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html
- UV light: This patent application for UV light sterilization www.patentstorm.us/patents/6565803.html Lists good references on water purification for Giardia et als
- Access Water Energy, PO Box 2061, Moorabbin, VIC 3189, Australia, Tel: 1300 797 758, email: sales@accesswater.com.au Website: http://www.accesswater.com.au/
Moorabbin Office: Kingston Trade Centre, 100 Cochranes Rd, Moorabbin, VIC 3189
Australian supplier of: Greywater systems, Solar power to grid packages, Edwards solar systems, Vulcan compact solar systems, water & solar system pumps & controls, and a wide rage of above ground & under ground water storage tanks: concrete, steel, plastic, modular, and bladder storage tanks. - Grove Electric, Typical Shallow Well One Line Jet Pump Installation [PDF], Grove Electric, G&G Electric & Plumbing, 1900 NE 78th St., Suite 101, Vancouver WA 98665 www.grovelectric.com - web search -7/15/2010 original source: http://www.groverelectric.com/howto/38_Typical%20Jet%20Pump%20Installation.pdf
- Grove Electric, Typical Deep Well Two Line Jet Pump Installation [PDF], Grove Electric, G&G Electric & Plumbing, 1900 NE 78th St., Suite 101, Vancouver WA 98665 www.grovelectric.com - web search -7/15/2010 original source: http://www.groverelectric.com/howto/38_Typical%20Jet%20Pump%20Installation.pdf
- Crystal Clear Supply provides portable ceramic water filter purifiers and portable reverse osmosis water treatment equipment - see http://www.crystalclearsupply.com/category_s/7.htm
- Handbook of Disinfectants and Antiseptics, Joseph M. Ascenzi (Editor), CRC, 1995, ISBN-10: 0824795245 ISBN-13: 978-0824795245 "The evaluation of chemical germicides predates the golden age of microbiology..." -
This well-focused, up-to-date reference details the current medical uses of antiseptics and disinfectants -- particularly in the control of hospital-acquired infections -- presenting methods for evaluating products to obtain regulatory approval and examining chemical, physical, and microbiological properties as well as the toxicology of the most widely used commercial chemicals. - Potable Aqua® emergency drinking water germicidal tablets are produced by the Wisconsin Pharmacal Co., Jackson WI 53037. 800-558-6614 pharmacalway.com
- Principles and Practice of Disinfection, Preservation and Sterilization (Hardcover)
by A. D. Russell (Editor), W. B. Hugo (Editor), G. A. J. Ayliffe (Editor), Blackwell Science, 2004. ISBN-10: 1405101997, ISBN-13: 978-1405101998.
"This superb book is the best of its kind available and one that will undoubtedly be useful, if not essential, to workers in a variety of industries. Thirty-one distinguished specialists deal comprehensively with the subject matter indicated by the title ... The book is produced with care, is very readable with useful selected references at the end of each chapter and an excellent index. It is an essential source book for everyone interested in this field. For pharmacy undergraduates, it will complement the excellent text on pharmaceutical microbiology by two of the present editors."
The Pharmaceutical Journal: "This is an excellent book. It deals comprehensively and authoritatively with its subject with contributions from 31 distinguished specialists. There is a great deal to interest all those involved in hospital infection ... This book is exceptionally well laid out. There are well chosen references for each chapter and an excellent index. It is highly recommended." The Journal of Hospital Infection.: "The editors and authors must be congratulated for this excellent treatise on nonantibiotic antimicrobial measures in hospitals and industry ... The publication is highly recommended to hospital and research personnel, especially to clinical microbiologists, infection-control and environmental-safety specialists, pharmacists, and dieticians."
New England Journal of Medicine: City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Covers the many methods of the elimination or prevention of microbial growth. Provides an historical overview, descriptions of the types of antimicrobial agents, factors affecting efficacy, evaluation methods, and types of resistance. Features sterilization methods, and more. Previous edition: c1999. DNLM: Sterilization--methods. - U.S. Army Field Manual 21-10, Field Hygiene and Sanitation, 1988, web search 07/02/2010, original source: http://www.enlisted.info/field-manuals/fm-21-10-field-hygiene-and-sanitation.shtml
The purpose of this manual is to assist individual soldiers, unit commanders, leaders and field sanitation teams in preventing disease and environmental injuries. The manual provides information on preventive medicine measures (PMM) to the individual soldier as well as essential information for the unit commander, unit leaders, and the unit field sanitation team on applying unit level PMM. - When Technology Fails, Matthew Stein, Chelsea Green Publisher, 2008,493 pages. ISBN-10: 1933392452 ISBN-13: 978-1933392455, "... how to find and sterilize water in the face of utility failure, as well as practical information for dealing with water-quality issues
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