Well Point Dewatering Procedure

Well points are prepared at a distance of about 1m around the area to be excavated.

Well point dewatering procedure.

The wells are arranged either in a line or a rectangular form where the wellpoints are created at a distance of at least 2m from each other. The ground water table is influenced by means of drawing it down through the well points spears that are installed around the excavation area. Wellpoint dewatering is widely used for excavations of shallow depths especially for pipeline trench excavations. Wellpoint method of dewatering excavations 1 a series of wells of required depth are created in the vicinity of the excavated area from where the water has to be pumped out.

Procedure of well point system. The following procedure is adopted in the well point. Wellpoint dewatering also known as spear point is an effective dewatering technique.