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Photo Vincent Guadazno
Truro Selectman Gary Palmer and Andy Miller from the well project at the site of the well that recently failed. |
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Provincetown well failure won’t delay project
Banner Daily Update posted Fri. June 8
By Pru Sowers
Banner Staff
TRURO – The failure of one of two wells being installed to provide Provincetown with a back-up water supply should not cause a delay in the testing schedule, according to the project engineer.
Mark White, the Environmental Partners Group project manager on the well testing project, said plans to begin testing the first of the two wells in the next two weeks are still on schedule. The project timeline originally called for an approximate two-week system “rest” between pump tests at the two wells to allow the aquifer to stabilize. The replacement well will be installed during that time, White said.
“It happens,” White said of the well failure. “It’s not that unusual.”
The two test wells are located on a Truro-owned parcel on N. Union Field Road and are part of an inter-municipal agreement between the two towns to help Provincetown develop a water system that would replicate its existing water supply, which has the capacity to pump 850,000 gallons per day. The redundant water supply was ordered by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Engineers have been installing two test well pumps on the N. Union Field Road site and were almost finished. However, a video inspection of one of the wells found a crack and a hole in one of the PVC pipes, according to an engineering consultant’s report. The report did not indicate if the pipe was faulty or the crack was the result of a lightening strike, as the well contractor, All Cape Well Drilling, believes.
All Cape Well Drilling will pay the cost to drill a new well, which owner Shaun Harrington said could cost between $10,000 and $20,000.
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Jun 7th, 2007