Lake Mary is one of the more affluent addresses in Seminole County, home to corporate campuses and manicured neighborhoods about nineteen miles north of Orlando. Most of the newer, planned communities here are on city water, so we will not pretend every Lake Mary home is on a well. Wells are more common on older, larger lots, on estate properties, and on many homes that run a private irrigation well to keep big lawns and landscaping green.
For those wells, the water comes from the Floridan Aquifer, commonly 100 to 400 feet down, and it runs through Central Florida limestone, so hardness and mineral scale build up inside pumps, tanks, and check valves over time. On an irrigation system working long cycles in the dry months, that wear shows up sooner than owners expect.