Is there any chance the filter underground could be plugged?

or is there even a filter undergound

That sounds very strange. The pump should be kicking on and filling up your tank with water until a certain pressure is reached at which point the pump is kicked off by the pressure switch. The pressure then is what pushes the water into your faucets etc. until the pressure drops below the threshold at which point the pump starts to pressure up the tank again with water. If your pump is still spinning at a normal speed, the pump should be fine. This doesnt sound like an expensive problem. If you are getting water from the well, the pump is spinning at a normal rate, but your pressure is going up and down in weird ways, I would still assume there is some sort of leak or pressure problem which usually would not require an entirely new pump.


A submersible would be silent, because it would be at the bottom of your well :-), and the well usually sets around 100 feet from your house outside.

There are no filters on water wells, you drink the water directly from the ground, unless there is a filter or softener connected to the water tank. The water would flow from the the tank to the filters then into your plumbing. Of course the well is shocked before you drink anything to kill contamination. Older wells were shallower, and sometimes were set above the bedrock, but now the common practice is to set your well casing at least 20 feet or more (usually more) into the bedrock, in order to make a seal between the overburden water runoff and your clean drinking water.

A new pump and a new well , depends on the scenario. The depth of the well varies from place to place as geology changes. Around my area, wells range from 100, to 800 or 1000 feet, so they have a wide range of depths. If you replace the pump you currently have, you might be able to fit a similar pump into your existing system and that type might still be manufactured, although much smaller and quieter. New pumps are usually in the hundreds of dollars, and a new well would be in the multi-thousand dollar range depending all on the depth, which would also determine how large the submersible pump needs to be. If you change from your internal pump to a submersible pump system, it is going to be a very expensive and messy ordeal. Either way, have a professional come out and look at it, so that they can better tell you what will work with your existing hardware, or if you need to replace all of your existing system.

Well, after an entire day of calling all the companies in the Yellow pages, I managed to get the lowest price... total cost for removal and reinstall... $1500 + parts. Turns out it''s probably leathers or a check valve at the bottom of the pump... ughhhh...

So much for trying to get ahead.