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How do you determine if the foot valve is bad in a deep well pump or if there is a problem with the bladder tank?

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When the check valve failed to seat properly at the lower unit in our well, the reserve tank would drain down quickly and then the pump would run again and again and again, . . .

If you have a valve between the pump outlet and the tank you can turn it off to check operation of the tank. Most likely your valve has failed.

It did this very often until we had the entire mechanism in the well replaced and installed a submersible pump.

No problems since and the submersible pump is hardly audible compared to the old pump motor which was mouted near the well head in the basement.

Good luck. Bob Jarnutowski bobjarn (at) hotmail.com

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