Managed to find the leak, it was extremely unspectacular. Turns out the leak was at the place where the tap, that is at the base of the hill, connects to the water pipe. After the ground finally wasn't frozen or wet anymore and we unpacked the tap from its bulky frost protection, we noticed that...
@sophiecentaur and @256bits thanks for the ideas and explanations. I'll put this thread on hold until the weather allows me to actually get some work done. I'll try my best to remember to post the results from the leak search.
The 100 meters of hoes is more of a stopping point then me not fully understanding the method. I already did a small scale model with a plastic bottle as a well and some transparent plastic pipes(or whatever those small things are called).
I should probably also say that the well is located at...
I'll try to give a better description of the whole situation. The town, where the houses are, is located in a valley. The houses are located at the bottom of the valley, while the well is located almost at the top of on of the side walls. Hope this give you a better idea, if not I can draw a...
Using the tap at the base of the hill as the starting point, the height difference would be 30ish meters and the pipe length would be 100ish meters.
We are on good terms with the neighbor and fairly certain that the problem is not there. To give it some more context. The wells water level rose...
I've been thinking a bit more about this and have realized where I was making wrong assumptions, so good for me :)
I've also been thinking of ways to calculate the position of the leak in a way that I completely understand. Since I've come to understand that my understanding of the underlying...
The first thing I noticed was that the pressure(or flow rate not sure of the correct term) at the tap had dropped significantly. After noticing this I went up to the well and noticed that the water level is basically around the bottom of the outlet pipe. Plugged the outlet and after 2 hours the...
Thanks, that's a really interesting approach @sophiecentaur . I'll definitely try this out if I can get my hands on a long enough hose.
Though there are 3 things I'm unclear on:
1)As I infer from your answer, the diameter of the hoes doesn't matter?
2) At what point do I open the water tap and...
Basically what I'm trying to do is calculate the amount of water it would take to generate a given pressure at the water tap. Or to put it more simply I'm trying to figure out where the water line is damaged, well more for fun then actually being practical.
The water system is simply a well on...