With the recent deep freeze, maybe the underground water line partially froze up? Water line gets slushy at first before going totally blocked, slowing the water flow, and makes the needle on the pressure gauge go very shakey-wakey, the needle pulsates, as tank slowly fills up to 50-psi, if it makes it.
If the pump is in the house, like in the basement, then it is a shallow well of 32' depth or less. Drawing water from a lake is same as a shallow well. If there's no pump inside house, then probably is a drilled well which has pump at bottom of drilled hole in ground within the drill pipe.
Many older homes in NH that are situated on a lake draw water from lake, because a shallow well is basically a do-it-yourself job, more or less, as opposed to the BIG money, well driller.
Best place to go for water system advice and water items is Lakeport Hdwe store in Laconia .... and then price shop it at nearby Lowe's .... and do not trust your well water for drinking it.
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Last edited by fatlazyless; 02-03-2019 at 08:21 AM.
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