Would love to hear what you would do in this situation. Also open to suggestions that perhaps I’m not thinking of.

We drilled a well over a year ago and ended up with salt water. Sodium levels 800 mg/l and chloride 1700 mg/l.  They ended up having to drill 805’ to get us up to 3gpm. Cost was 21k. Vein 1 at about 330’ was 0.5gpm. Vein 2 was 805’ at 2.5gpm. Test came back with high sodium, chloride, iron, and hardness. We flowed more and tried pulling the pump up higher in the well with no significant change in the salt levels. 

There’s another well on site about 500 ft away for our horse barn and that water is pristine but does run dry in the summer for about a week due to the volume used which is why we didn’t tap into that.

We’re on a brook with a gully right by the house and was considering drilling halfway down the gully bank thinking perhaps that might be a ‘fracture line’ where we could hit clean water. Seems like neighbors have hit salt water around 450’ so was going to have it drilled no further than that.

The flip side is that we could install an RO system but it sounds like those are running 20-30k for whole house, have maintenance costs, and a lifespan. For that money we could drill up to 3 wells. 

I know it’s a gamble no matter what but wanted some input on what you would do in my shoes since either option forward has a hefty price tag.

Thanks,
Jassy