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[ITO]

 Been on both sides of the inspection game, I think most people can see that some installations need next to nothing and can be a great learning experience but some installs need a helping hand. Hard to say the idea is not a good?
 Newer locating equipment can use energized line without direct connection or inject a signal and can show deths to the tenth of an inch but I am not knocking past methods, had a friends dad "witch" out a place where a well digger drilled on my dad's property and it has a great water supply to this day so both sides of that too?
 Hope you find your well, just a fish tape could tell you a lot. Dave when you say the pipe looks like it goes straight up that sounds like the fitting used at the well called a pitiless adapter, the stem points up the pipe and all the piping down hangs on that fitting. At least it sounds like that is what it could be!
 

[DaveWertz]

Is there anyway to determine if its a deep well or not by the pipes coming threw the basement? I asked a fella about it today and he said its probably a shallow well since there is only one pipe coming threw. What difference does that make?

[BoilerHouse]

If the pump was in your basement, than a single line would indicate a shallow well.  But in your case you have (I believe) a submersible pump in the well.  It would be a single line whether it were shallow or deep.

[duke]

Around my area, you should see a 6-8" pipe with cap sticking out of ground. On shallow wells there is usually a pump house above ground.

[kayakerski]

If the pump was in your basement, than a single line would indicate a shallow well.  But in your case you have (I believe) a submersible pump in the well.  It would be a single line whether it were shallow or deep.

I would have totally agreed with you before I bought my house last year but I'm not so sure now.

I have a submersable pump for sure but I also have what appears to be casing running down a stone lined shallow well. I've heard that they used to drill down through shallow wells but the casing I have flops around so I'm not sure if it goes below the bottom of the shallow well or if it's suspended! Maybe it's a deep well and the casing is broke? My water tastes great but I have lost presuure for a little while on two occasions when I drew ALOT of water when it's been dry.

Gregg

[kayakerski]

 Newer locating equipment can use energized line without direct connection or inject a signal and can show deths to the tenth of an inch but I am not knocking past methods, had a friends dad "witch" out a place where a well digger drilled on my dad's property and it has a great water supply to this day so both sides of that too?
 Hope you find your well, just a fish tape could tell you a lot. Dave when you say the pipe looks like it goes straight up that sounds like the fitting used at the well called a pitiless adapter, the stem points up the pipe and all the piping down hangs on that fitting. At least it sounds like that is what it could be!
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"Witching" or dowsing defintely works. I do alot of work for municipalities with very old infrastructure. Often the systems are so old that the current employees have no clue where lines are since there is no mapping and lines are abandoned and emergency repairs are made. Usually they have to call in some old codger that's been working for the city for 50 years and he pulls out a set of bent welding rods and finds the lines! Cool stuff.

Gregg