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Aquifers, drilling methods, casing and screen, grout and annular seal, setbacks, submersible pumps, pressure tanks, pump sizing and disinfection. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 74 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 69 topics.
You're at the kitchen table with the state code open to the well construction section, and the exam is three weeks out. You've built more wells than you can count, but the page won't show you what goes where.
Casing, screen, gravel pack, annular seal, pitless adapter, cap: the code covers each one in its own paragraph, pages apart. Nothing puts them back together into the well you actually build.
In this book, the finished well is one cross-section. Nine labeled parts, from the sanitary cap down to the gravel pack, each one drawn where it sits in the ground, with the number to know right beside it.
The rest works the same way: the annular seal, the submersible pump from bottom to top, the bladder tank, pump sizing and the yield test each get their own page, drawn.
You look at the drawing, you see why each part is there, and you answer the question without going back to the code.
Groundwater, drilling methods, casing and screen, grout and wellhead, pumps, pressure tanks, pump sizing, testing and disinfection, and exam review: 74 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
A customer calls: the pump runs, stops and runs again every few seconds. Or the exam asks you, in one line, what the tank precharge should be. You need the answer now, not three chapters later.
You open the pressure tank page and see the bladder tank drawn at three moments: precharge with the tank empty, cut-out when the pump stops, cut-in when it starts again. The psi sits in a box right beside it.
Same with grout depth, setback distances, the pitless adapter, shock chlorination and specific capacity: each one on its own page, each one drawn.
Water Well Driller Illustrated is 9 parts and 69 topics, all drawn, and at the end a worked pump sizing example, 10 common mistakes before and after, and exam-style questions with answers.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
How to use the book with your state code, the water cycle under the rig, confined and unconfined aquifers, porosity vs. permeability, static and pumping level, and how contamination reaches a well.
Picking the method by formation, mud rotary circulation, drilling fluid weight and filter cake, air rotary and DTH hammer, cable tool, reading cuttings, lost circulation and caving holes.
The finished well in cross-section, steel and PVC casing, casing height and seating in bedrock, slot size from the sieve analysis, gravel pack and well development.
What the annular seal protects, annular space, minimum grout depth, neat cement and bentonite, tremie placement, grout volume, setbacks, pitless adapters and the sanitary cap.
The submersible pump part by part, pump setting, motor cooling, check valves, torque arrestor, shallow and deep-well jet pumps, pump curves, 2-wire vs. 3-wire and voltage drop.
How a pressure tank works, precharge 2 psi below cut-in, drawdown and tank sizing, the pressure switch, the tank tee, constant-pressure systems and short cycling causes in order.
Pump sizing in 5 steps: peak demand in gpm, lift from pumping level, pressure as feet of head, friction loss, and total dynamic head to choose the pump.
Yield test and specific capacity, water levels, well volume, shock chlorination dose, disinfection in order, bacteria sampling, the well log, plugging and flowing artesian wells.
10 common mistakes before and after, the numbers to know on one page, exam-style questions on construction, grout, pumps and sizing, and a final checklist for exam day.
At the end of the book: A worked 5-step pump sizing example, 10 common mistakes before and after, the numbers to know on one page and exam-style questions with answers.
Practice with exam-style questions on construction, grouting, pumps and disinfection, each answer explained with the page where it's drawn, so you know what you've got down and what to review again.
The numbers you need on printable one-page cards (setbacks, grout depth, tank precharge, chlorine dose) to review at a glance in the truck or the night before the exam.
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You know the rig after years as a hand. The book puts that work in the order the exam asks for it, one drawn page per topic.
You review all 9 parts in order, check the flagged values against your state's current code and work the exam-style questions at the end.
You keep a printed copy in the truck: pump sizing, tank precharge, grout volume and chlorine dose, each one drawn and easy to find.
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Yes. It doesn't stop to explain what a well is: it goes straight to the topics driller and pump installer exams ask about (construction, grout, setbacks, pumps, tanks, sizing, disinfection), each one drawn, with the number to know and the most common mistake. Every value your state sets is flagged so you can check it against your state's code.
From the national water well construction standard and federal guidance on private wells and disinfection. How a well is built, how pumps and tanks work, pump sizing and the formulas are the same in every state. What changes by state (setback distances, minimum grout depth, casing height, chlorine dose) is flagged on each page with a common value, so you check it against your state's current code and write in your number.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. It isn't published or endorsed by any state board, agency or exam provider, and it doesn't give you a license, a certificate or training hours: it's what you study with before your state exam.
No. It helps you review and understand what you study and do in the field. It doesn't replace the training, field hours or code your state requires.
No. They're written for this book, in exam style, so you can check what you've got down. They aren't official questions from any exam.
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Yes. The PDF is made to print, at home or at a print shop, so you can keep it in the truck.
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No more rereading the code with nothing sticking.
The finished well: you see it drawn, and that's it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
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