Question about well depth once you’ve found water

I have been looking at all the registered well reports for my area and noticed for instance that hit water at 65’ and drilled to 80’ or something similar. The guy drilling my well says this is to make a pocket to hold a bit of water. Makes sense I suppose.

My question is can this be too deep? Say I hit water at 60 and go to 100. The reason being is 100’ is the minimum charge. There are a few things that stand out that would make this cost more such as more wiring and casing etc but is there any reason not associated to cost to make this a good or bad idea?

This is my first time drilling a well and I’m nervous as a wet cat!

Thanks in advance

I always preface a discussion about catching rainwater rather than using a well.
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Anyway, try this https://landassociation.org/water-wells-in-texas/

I think  I'd probably talk it over with the driller.  He will probably know the area and characteristics of the formations as good as anybody.  In the area I'm in a lot of the early settlers about 100 years ago would drill into the water bearing sands and a little deeper then call it good enough.  Now that the water table has dropped though the years a lot of those wells have been replaced with deeper ones.  We drill until we hit the red bed (an impermeable formation) and then perhaps into it a little more for a sump to pump out of.  I had a new well drilled here a couple years ago.  My static water level is at 212 feet, total depth 320 feet, and we set the pump at 294 feet.  That gives several feet of water above my pump and room to lower it if need be.  I know everything costs by the foot but it's cheaper just to do it once.

I should have mentioned, I like John's point about considering water catchment and storage.  If I ever move to a new place or build a large barn or shed it's something I'll consider  incorporating.

I should really have more water catchment than I do.  Our feast or famine rainfall here often means that what looks like a wet year based on annual rainfall also had 8 months of drought. I suspect that those drought periods are even more drying because everyday is full sun without those partly sun days that surround many actual rain events.

Works good when you have enough permeability in the land to recharge the springs and aquifers but as more and more developments are built, less and less water is absorbed. As much as they talk of water shortages in the west, I think we'd be in much better shape if we didn't compulsively pave everything.  The decomposed granite paths around Lady Bird Lake are a wonderful compromise that I wish were more common

I nearly want to cry when I see them cement in a wet water creek running through a neighborhood. Periodically clearing it is an ongoing expense but those are key infiltration sites and I am fairly sure it's the natural Texas equivalent to British hedges in leaving space for wildlife.

Cassie you are on to an important point.
Flooding is made worse when creeks etc are cleaned out, lined or even barrelled.
Communities that encourage some low level flooding across natural floodplains do not suffer the massive flood damage you see in some areas of UK, Germany etc.
When water is help back naturally  the flood is not as intense.
In Australia we have a term Natural Sequence farming, were water is slowed down allowing recharge etc to occur.

there are a few good reasons to go deeper and many are already listed in the reply's above mine.
I would do  it for two reasons the first is to have a buffer for recovery time should I need to pump a large volume in a short time, as in to fight a fire.
Second is to use a bubble lift system rather than a submersible electric pump.  And a bubble lift relies on having some depth in order to lift high enough to reach a storage tank.

We ended up hitting pretty decent water starting at 65’ and drilled down to 110’ for a little extra depth. Driller acted like this was plenty. Picking up pump and pressure tank etc on Monday. Thanks for all the replies. As far as rain catchment goes that is also something I’m interested in but this wells main purpose is to cover evaporation in my pond in between big rain events.  I do already have to trench down to the well for power so I will go ahead and install a water line at that time up to garden area.

I also recently built 5 check dams and 4 brush dams to slow water and catch sediment. Progress is slow but it’s starting to add up little by little.

Joe your work sounds interesting. Can you put up some photos?