Cost for Septic System and Well

My wife and I put a new house on the property in 2019. Long story short we after some discussion we got off city water and sewer and rehabbed the existing well and put a septic system in. Our cost will probably be irrelevant to what you are doing but I do have a couple things you might want to consider.

On the septic, particularly the leach field needs to be placed where it will not be driven over to prevent compacting the soil.

In case of a power outage, your well will no longer work. Out here the typical well system uses a pump and pressure tank(s).....no cistern and cistern pump. During a power outage there is enough water and pressure in the pressure tanks to flush the toilets a few time etc but but it wont last long. Our well is to far away from the house for the backup generator to provide power to the well (which is on it's own line and meter). The well is an "on demand" system, when pressure drop in the tanks the well pump kicks on refilling/pressurizing the tanks.

We have a couple horses and a couple dogs that also need water. As a back up we installed 2 1000 gallon water tanks with their own separate pressure tank and pump that the house backup generator can power. By switching a couple of valves the backup system goes on line to the property water system.

We just got a backup generator to use as a dedicated backup for the well. As the well is an "on demand" setup it makes no sense to run the generator on the well full time as it may go hours and hours before the well pump actually kicks it. It will be run as needed just to refill the 1000 gallon tanks as required.

As far as generators, we have switched over from gasoline to propane generators (yes we had to add a propane tank to the property). With the quality of the gasoline and it's shelf life the standby gasoline was being rotated out (burned in the cars and replaced) every 6 months......one less hassle to deal with.

Anyway good luck with your project.