Round Hill is the town out here where the limits tell you the least about your water. The Town’s own handbook says its water and sewer serve the town plus a long list of neighborhoods outside it, the Villages of Round Hill, Mountain Valley, Fallswood, Lake Point and Stoneleigh among them. If you live in one of those, the pump that matters is the Town’s, not yours. Past them, out on the roads toward Airmont, it’s a private well, and Loudoun’s county well records show 1,444 active household wells within three miles of the town center.
Those wells run deep. Their median recorded depth is 392 feet, past the county’s 350, and most houses in 20141 went up after 2000, when new Loudoun wells were already running near 400 feet. Every one of those feet is wire and drop pipe the pump hangs on. So before we quote a replacement in Round Hill, we want the well’s depth, from the paperwork if you kept it. That number is most of the gap between $2,781 to $4,000 and $4,900 to $6,500.
The Town’s water is well water too. Its 2017 plan counts 12 active Town wells drawing from fractured bedrock, and its page on common water problems says hard, calcium-heavy water is common for wells here. That scale doesn’t stop at the faucets. It often crusts the little tube under a pressure switch, and a switch that can’t read the pressure right will leave a good pump running too long or not starting at all. On a Round Hill call we look at the switch’s contacts and that tube before anybody blames the pump.
People here have mixed Town water and their own wells for a long time. The Town built its water system in 1913, and its plan says many residents stayed on their wells anyway. If you’re on Town water and find an old well cap in the yard, leave it alone. Swapping a pump is plumbing, but closing up a well takes a health department permit, and we’ll tell you who handles that.