if you filter the water you can drink it. you should filter well water anyway , just to be on the safe side. Run it through a good gravity filter or a good pressure filter . One that filters out bacteria , like Giardia etc. and you will be just fine.
It'll more than likely draw down faster than it can recharge, even if you could avoid pesticides and make it safe to drink. It's viable for watering gardens or other small things that need water, not really, for whole home use.
Yes I'm mainly using it for irrigation. The well has been running for over a year now, I'm hoping it will last years to come. I guess we'll see how long it lasts!
Do you live in the city or something and are worried the water table is contaminated there? Just curious why you would be not optimistic that you could drink well water.
Figured it would be fine. Unless you are surrounded by industrial farms, pretty much any underground water should be fine (besides hard water , iron / blood taste). Dilution is the solution, and there's a lot of water under there.
I think there's a super unnecessary assumption that well water is unsafe, in general. Obviously you should have water tested, particularly if consuming, but I suspect most places it is totally safe. 25% of american live on a well and septic and all most of us needs is some filtration for sediment, minerals, etc. Here in central MA we have been drinking our filtered well water for 10 years. And we test it yearly.
