—When the well runs dry—

Holding a flashlight down inside our household water holding tank, I went,
goh, shoot therefs no waterh. A spigot, the little opening from the pipe that connects the well and the reservoir was laboring spitting up air together with just a trickle of water in contrast with usual steady pour.
Induced by the picture, a bolt of frightening thought came ringing in my head; has our well gone dry?
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Granted that last summer had been unusually dry, granted that wefd used a little more water than we would have, but what are the odds on a well going dry after just 9 years? Besides our using a little more water than we normally do shouldnft even be at a par with most residential water usage; wefve always been very careful--oh well, frugal.
What with that someone had vandalized the electrical circuit in the well house before we owned the place, that the previous owner had been too stingy to have had someone look at it afterward and that we too had been following the previous ownerfs foot steps in tightfistedness we had had occasional water stoppage, sure, but it had been always just a matter of a trip to our well house and of fiddling with something in there, and that had always worked, but this time we still had no water after more than a several hours since we first noticed that we had lost the water in that morning.
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What can you do when your well has seemingly run temporarily dry? Panicking sure sounds right, donft you think, but I fought that with fury. After rummaging the Internet sources right and left going after any possible solution, I came to a few, and decided to wait out until the water level in our well came back up to the inlet of the pump. Probably we have stingy whatfs called gaquiferh that is underground layer of rocks and earth yielding ground water for wells..., but there was another worry that this might not be the solution because there was no proof that the problem was the water supply shortage, so just waiting for the well to somehow replenish itself might not do the trick; after all my husband had indicated that wasnft the case that there must be some kind of problem in the power circuit or some flaw in the water purification system we have installed in our water system, both of which had previously caused water to stop. As much more attractive as that sounds, and there may be a dozen another causes to this (Ifd take anything but an idea of dried up well), you really canft withdraw the dry well scenario completely and absolutely considering the circumstances. So the fun continues.
The best solution to answering the water shortage problem is the rain, and, believe me, we usually get more than plenty around here in where we live except for a few months in the summer times. Rain in rain out I usually LOATH the time, but for that once without a doubt did I wish for it.
In the end wefve got our water back, and this time without stopping after only running for five minutes. The weirdest thing is that my husband and I still donft know what had caused the water to stop for so long--almost an entire day--, because upon my husbandfs entry to the well house that afternoon after coming home from work in an attempt to handle the situation differently (different from my gwaiting outh approach), it had started raining, raining hard, thus we donft know which remedial method, the rainfall or fiddling with the circuit, had worked.
After all it seems to be that my husband has fixed the problem with a help of miraculous precipitation, and because of what we had to go through that day for a very long period of time, with each toilet flush I count my blessing nowadays.

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