Thomas Kwader reveals the steps you can take to maximize screened well efficiency.
Ideally, in order to obtain the most water possible from a screened well, the well would be installed as a perfect cylinder without any disturbance to the formation. This is not possible because a screen is needed to keep the formation from collapsing into the borehole. Therefore a 100 percent efficient screened well is not practical; however, some open hole wells completed in fractured rock may approach 100 percent efficiency.
The following steps can be taken to maximize screened well efficiency: