Welcome to Hawkins Well & Pump
Water is essential to our daily lives. Nothing is more important, and it is not until you lose that flow that the loss hits hard. At Hawkins Well and Pump, our goal is to keep our customers' water flowing, and provide the highest quality water possible from their wells. Since 1972, we have provided all of the water delivery, storage, quality and well-maintenance that homeowners and small business owners expect. Please contact Hawkins with all of your service needs.
Water is essential to our daily lives. Nothing is more important, and it is not until you lose that flow that the loss hits hard. At Hawkins Well and Pump, our goal is to keep our customers' water flowing, and provide the highest quality water possible from their wells. Since 1972, we have provided all of the water delivery, storage, quality and well-maintenance that homeowners and small business owners expect. Please contact Hawkins with all of your service needs.
For a water emergency, please call 401-377-2539.
New To the area? Never owned a well? Here is some general information about water wells:
1. First of all - it's not gross or nasty. It's how we get our water.
2. Well water in these parts is a variety of qualities depending upon your area. You have no control over the quality of water your property will produce. Most is pretty good.
3. Your system is set up with the delivery (the pump) of the water, the storage (the tank) of the water and the quality (filtration) of the water.
4. There are various types of well setups. The most common around the southern RI area are Drilled wells and shallow wells, which would also include point wells.
5. The best way to see what kind of system you have is the location of the pump. If your pump is in the basement or above ground near the tank, then you have a shallow well, or point well system. If you do not see the pump in the basement, just the storage tank, then the pump is most likely a submersible pump and is located out in the well. In this case you have a drilled well system.
6. Drilled Wells usually have a 6" pipe sticking out of the ground. They can typically go down hundreds of feet.
7. Shallow wells will usually have a cement cover over the well and are less than 25 feet deep.
8. Points are systems that don't really have a well. They get to the water by driving a pointed pipe down into the ground and sucking the water out with the pump at the top. Point wells are no deeper than 25' deep.
9. Both Pump systems must have an area to store the water. This is where the tank comes in. The water is pumped out of the well and into an air pressurized tank. The water is pumped into the system until it shuts off at generally around 60 lbs. of pressure.
10. Filtration systems are used to condition the water depending upon the water quality coming out of the ground. Not all well systems have or require filtration. Testing your water is the best way to determine if filtration is needed.
11. To get particulate out of the water, some filters are relatively simple. Other systems are more complicated using various gravels, sands and conditioners to remove contaminants in the water.
1. First of all - it's not gross or nasty. It's how we get our water.
2. Well water in these parts is a variety of qualities depending upon your area. You have no control over the quality of water your property will produce. Most is pretty good.
3. Your system is set up with the delivery (the pump) of the water, the storage (the tank) of the water and the quality (filtration) of the water.
4. There are various types of well setups. The most common around the southern RI area are Drilled wells and shallow wells, which would also include point wells.
5. The best way to see what kind of system you have is the location of the pump. If your pump is in the basement or above ground near the tank, then you have a shallow well, or point well system. If you do not see the pump in the basement, just the storage tank, then the pump is most likely a submersible pump and is located out in the well. In this case you have a drilled well system.
6. Drilled Wells usually have a 6" pipe sticking out of the ground. They can typically go down hundreds of feet.
7. Shallow wells will usually have a cement cover over the well and are less than 25 feet deep.
8. Points are systems that don't really have a well. They get to the water by driving a pointed pipe down into the ground and sucking the water out with the pump at the top. Point wells are no deeper than 25' deep.
9. Both Pump systems must have an area to store the water. This is where the tank comes in. The water is pumped out of the well and into an air pressurized tank. The water is pumped into the system until it shuts off at generally around 60 lbs. of pressure.
10. Filtration systems are used to condition the water depending upon the water quality coming out of the ground. Not all well systems have or require filtration. Testing your water is the best way to determine if filtration is needed.
11. To get particulate out of the water, some filters are relatively simple. Other systems are more complicated using various gravels, sands and conditioners to remove contaminants in the water.
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