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Originally Posted by oldE

Steve, I look at that and can hardly believe my eyes, then I remember where you live. Up here in the "frozen North ", a hole is drilled through the casing about 4 feet below grade and a pitless fitting is installed. The pipe from the submersible pump clips into the fitting with an O ring and the pipe to the house is a minimum of 3 feet below grade. 24 years (knock on wood) and no problems.
Thanks for the look at other people's problems.

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Les

Yep, not much concern with freezing here. Our pipes are probably 10-12" down when they are buried. During our "snowmaggedon" where we had snow and single digit temps in Feb of 2021, we did have a break inside the pump house. I don't think it would have broken, but we had a 2hr power outage. There was a halogen work lamp in the pump house keeping things warm. It broke just before the pressure tank.

Since then, I've added a hot wire to that section of the line and insulation. I normally have the bit that you see insulated in the winter too. I'll probably do something a bit more for the future now that there's more line above ground.