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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by hbfix: 9:02am On Jan 20
Get another tank where you first pump d dirty water then switch to the main tank after 20mins.
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by tiswell(m): 9:02am On Jan 20
Contact the driller company to correct the errors fa

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Worldlegend(m): 9:02am On Jan 20
Wisdom demands you don’t stop pumping… to avoid the first 20mins dirty drop..


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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Willie2015: 9:03am On Jan 20
Grupo:


Ebonyi state. Any solution, please?

Just get at least
3 tanks connected
So u can let water settled before usage..
in case there is no solution

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by EEIA: 9:04am On Jan 20
Grupo:


Ebonyi state. Any solution, please?
It is expected. the land is red, prone to erosion and high soil particle movement.

what did you expect initially?

Solution is to Just develop the water and it will become cleaner. cool
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Asquare84(m): 9:04am On Jan 20
Sorry for derailing the thread, what is the reason why bore hole doesn't not work in some part of Nigeria, my people are really suffering from portable water, yet you drill bore hole it doesn't work. The place is otukpo in benue state.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by waldigit: 9:08am On Jan 20
Grupo:
Hello all,

Please I drilled a new borehole for my village house.

According to the geologist who did the survey, we'd get water at 65 meters. So I paid him to bring drillers to drill 65m well.

After the whole drilling and installation, and flushing of the well, I noticed that each time I pump the water, the well brings out dirty brown water for like 20 minutes before it starts bringing out clean water.

And the next time I pump the water, it repeats the same way. I have contacted the drilling company and they are not saying anything useful.

Please I will appreciate contributions from experienced people on how to navigate this challenge.

Please @mods, or the mod in charge of this section, kindly help me push this to the front page. I really need opinions.

Thanks.
Don't worry your self since it's new. I experienced it with a borehole on one of my site. With continuous usage it will flush out all material in suspension and become clean.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by EEIA: 9:08am On Jan 20
Asquare84:
Sorry for derailing the thread, what is the reason why bore hole doesn't not work in some part of Nigeria, my people are really suffering from portable water, yet you drill bore hole it doesn't work. The place is otukpo in benue state.
The head Quarters of Guinea worm in Nigeria. grin
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Tonididdyx: 9:10am On Jan 20
Grupo:
Hello all,

Please I drilled a new borehole for my village house.

According to the geologist who did the survey, we'd get water at 65 meters. So I paid him to bring drillers to drill 65m well.

After the whole drilling and installation, and flushing of the well, I noticed that each time I pump the water, the well brings out dirty brown water for like 20 minutes before it starts bringing out clean water.

And the next time I pump the water, it repeats the same way. I have contacted the drilling company and they are not saying anything useful.

Please I will appreciate contributions from experienced people on how to navigate this challenge.

Please @mods, or the mod in charge of this section, kindly help me push this to the front page. I really need opinions.

Thanks.
How can you drill a borehole and immediately start using it's water.
You're supposed to pump that shit nonstop for 10hrs minimum, only after this YOU CAN BE GUARANTEED WHITE WATER ANYTIME!

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by WantsandMore: 9:10am On Jan 20
Asquare84:
Sorry for derailing the thread, what is the reason why bore hole doesn't not work in some part of Nigeria, my people are really suffering from portable water, yet you drill bore hole it doesn't work. The place is otukpo in benue state.
chech Google map of that terrain, or do a geological survey.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by CrownOfClay724: 9:10am On Jan 20
FoodMiller:
Mine is doing that too. I live in Nsukka and I sank the bore hole for a while and it pumps dirty water first. The engineer that sank the bore hole said it's as a result of the metal rust in the pipes below the ground

That's another thing.

Why didn't they use plastic casing?
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by abobote: 9:11am On Jan 20
I suspect he didn't drill till the 65m, immediately he saw water he stopped drilling.
Next time make sure you are there to supervise the work

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by ResponsibleThug(m): 9:12am On Jan 20
Asquare84:
Sorry for derailing the thread, what is the reason why bore hole doesn't not work in some part of Nigeria, my people are really suffering from portable water, yet you drill bore hole it doesn't work. The place is otukpo in benue state.

Always do a geophysical survey BEFORE any borehole drilling.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by REDshouse(m): 9:13am On Jan 20
I will advice you call in d drillers to drill more to atleast 80meters and insert a 4.5m casing(doubling the casing) and flush a whole day at least 5 to 8hrs everyday for next 3 to 5 days ..

Come and Thank me later

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Tonididdyx: 9:13am On Jan 20
Asquare84:
Sorry for derailing the thread, what is the reason why bore hole doesn't not work in some part of Nigeria, my people are really suffering from portable water, yet you drill bore hole it doesn't work. The place is otukpo in benue state.

Water is everywhere.
Your community needs govt subsidy or intervention to drill a standard borehole using hardcore industrial drillibg companies.

There's a place called ekpoma in EdO, it suffers same fate because the water bed is so so so so down in the earth over there, it's not a project any private house can undergo alone.
So the govt drills their boreholes in selected areas for the people.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by highoctane: 9:14am On Jan 20
Would be next borehole owners to be, no matter your location target between 80 to 120m.

In some location in Imo , Abia, Anambra and Enugu state, some borehole depth goes as deep as 150 to 250meters. Before you hit clear water basin

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by bcomputer101: 9:14am On Jan 20
Grupo:
Hello all,

Please I drilled a new borehole for my village house.

According to the geologist who did the survey, we'd get water at 65 meters. So I paid him to bring drillers to drill 65m well.

After the whole drilling and installation, and flushing of the well, I noticed that each time I pump the water, the well brings out dirty brown water for like 20 minutes before it starts bringing out clean water.

And the next time I pump the water, it repeats the same way. I have contacted the drilling company and they are not saying anything useful.

Please I will appreciate contributions from experienced people on how to navigate this challenge.

Please @mods, or the mod in charge of this section, kindly help me push this to the front page. I really need opinions.

Thanks.


If you want permanent solution, try and reline it and do flushing.
The borehole is not well cased down.

Thank my later after doing this.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Maryjewett: 9:18am On Jan 20
waldigit:

Don't worry your self since it's new. I experienced it with a borehole on one of my site. With continuous usage it will flush out all material in suspension and become clean.

Listen to this person. Don't go and drill again or waste your money with promises of a better outcome. You'll still have same results.
That's how new borehole is supposed to be. The reason you are noticing the dirt is probably you didn't sank the borehole when starting the foundation of your property. If you did, the bricklayers would have used the dirty part of the water because they work every day which flushes the water regularly.
By the time the building is completed you will get fresh and clean water.
So don't panic. Just keep using it every day.
Mine was the same. Sank the borehole first before molding bricks.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by UselessBuharist: 9:18am On Jan 20
The borehole is not up to normal depth
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Jamesoghie: 9:24am On Jan 20
The borehole wasn't cased very well.Wall leakage in the casing
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by lsoul: 9:26am On Jan 20
Grupo:
Hello all,

Please I drilled a new borehole for my village house.

According to the geologist who did the survey, we'd get water at 65 meters. So I paid him to bring drillers to drill 65m well.

After the whole drilling and installation, and flushing of the well, I noticed that each time I pump the water, the well brings out dirty brown water for like 20 minutes before it starts bringing out clean water.

And the next time I pump the water, it repeats the same way. I have contacted the drilling company and they are not saying anything useful.

Please I will appreciate contributions from experienced people on how to navigate this challenge.

Please @mods, or the mod in charge of this section, kindly help me push this to the front page. I really need opinions.
Don't let anyone deceive you, let them reduce the Length of the pipe inside by 2 or 3 ft. The pipe is sticking to the ground that's why the dirty water
Thanks.
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by ajog1: 9:27am On Jan 20
Tonididdyx:

How can you drill a borehole and immediately start using it's water.
You're supposed to pump that shit nonstop for 10hrs minimum, only after this YOU CAN BE GUARANTEED WHITE WATER ANYTIME!
Exactly what i wanted saying. Even we up north with way harder grounds, had the submersible pump run for 12hrs non-stop from when it was sunk into the hole.

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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by LORDKing001: 9:28am On Jan 20
How muchbis the cost of the borehole?
I contacted someone here estimated 1.4m
Location minna
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by gentlegeno(m): 9:29am On Jan 20
I advise you open a small garden in your house and use the first 20 minutes of pumping the water to water the garden. Nothing should be wasted, please.
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by Tonididdyx: 9:30am On Jan 20
ajog1:

Exactly what I wanted telling him. Even we up north with way harder grounds, had the submersible pump run for 12hrs non-stop on the day a hole was sunk.

Yeah the drillibg company should have informed him so... Weird they didn't!
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by atiku4President(m): 9:33am On Jan 20
Grupo:


I have pumped the water for more than three hours nonstop before. Yet this continues.


When you start pumping at first, the water is dirty but clears after like 10 to 20 minutes. And the water remains clean like that for the rest of the day.

But once I try to pump again the following day, it starts with very dirty water again. And continues for like another 10 to 20 minutes before it clears and becomes clean.
Similar experience with mine.
Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by ajog1: 9:34am On Jan 20
LORDKing001:
How muchbis the cost of the borehole?
I contacted someone here estimated 1.4m
Location minna
What were his reasons for such cost?
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Re: My New Borehole Pumps Out Dirty Water First, Before Clean Water. Help! by CrownOfClay724: 9:36am On Jan 20
FoodMiller:


Yeah... Even though the metal casing is even costlier than the plastic casing and my engineer says the the plastic casing may break in the long run from the water pressure, especially for bore holes with very deep depth. That's the kind of boreholes we have in Nsukka because the water table is very deep and the pressure is high.

There are thick UPVC pipes that can withstand great amount of pressure.

And even at that they can get metal pipes whose inside are lined with polyvinyl materials to forestall against rust.

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