We Drilled a WELL and WE weren't EXPECTING THIS!!! Building Our OFF-GRID Tiny House in the WOODS
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We drilled a 140' well @12 g/m, in 1988 cost was $10/ft with casing total =$1600. Ahhh, the good old days.
Man I like that pricing.
That would be $3700 at current value.
we have a well, as do many homes in our small town outside Bucharest, Romania. also at the street but we drink and bath in the well water. it's wonderful. about 100' deep
That is great! I love to drink well water, ESPECIALLY IF IT COMES FROM a SPRING.
180 feet
These are hard-working MEN! There is much to be admired about them!
We live in the country on a ridge and build about 7 years ago. The well..... took 4 dry holes before getting to the 40 gal a minute. And 10K. The closet community water comes from a 2 inch main 3/4 mile up and down hills to the house. Virtually no water pressure. And we have lot of deer too!
With all the technology I love the old metal sieve that they used to check the rock - amazing
As someone who logs a lot of wells, I can say it is a relatively new (but ordinary) metal sieve. I go through a few a year - especially when air-rotary drilling.
Now that the grass is growing, that clearing is beginning to look very pretty. Especially with the leaves changing colour. Its going to be a beautiful spot to live.
So nice to be back with you people
My grandparents dug their own well. Doing it this way is something of a luxury, isn't it? So much more fun to watch the machine dig,.lol.
In NC and we were blessed on our 18 acre farm!
Bedrock at 18 '
20 gpm @ 225'
40 + gpm @325'
Drilled to 425' to increase storage capacity.
It only took 5 minutes to locate a site after cutting a new branch ... drilled in the middle of 8 hard positive twist of the branch.
Tested twice to insure the water was of choice!
True it's an intense situation of the unknown! Video tape the complete drill.
Neighborhood drills,
550' away got 5 gpm
800' away got 11.5 gpm
1400' away got 2.5 @ 800'
1100' away got 5 gpm and 40+ gpm on second well.
A farmer 1/4 mile down the road went to 1000' and fracture for 10.5 gpm.
You never know what you can't see!
It's a fun day but, gut wrenching every minute!
You bet that night I had a great sleeping experience.
Our New Hampshire well was "pounded" in 2016. 1952 rig! We could not get a drill rig that size up our logging road and into the woods. 200 feet deep. You were fortunate to be out in the open. Congrats on having water! Drilled wells average deeper, however, it gives you a larger water resevoir. We appreciate the security of our own water source. Our neighbor's drilled well was 600'.
Hydro fracing is when they use a special bit that's got diggers plus nozzles that pressurize water to bust thru tough rock and clay. And they hook water up to rig that shoots water down in hole
Love watching the well being drilled - be interesting to see what water quality you get and how long it takes for the water to clear up - thanks for sharing
Very special “BIG UPS” to ancestors who had to did a well by hand. Cannot imagine. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
they didn't violate anything much...drilling this deep distubes all....look at California and New Mexico, and a lot of other places. The water needs to come from somwhere...if it's not surface water (RAIN) , it's not enough underground. Or where do you think that EXTRA water comes from? Artic? Pacific?
When I was a college kid (more decades ago than I'd like to remember) I delivered tons of steel well casing to drillers in my area but had never watched the process before, thanks for the view of the use for all that heavy to transport stuff.
drilling that deep makes sense why the equipment is so new... taking people to cleaners instead of saying find better place to homestead. good luck guys
I'm 54 I drilled water wells for 24 years of my life pump installer ,water filtration , or
suberrainial water extraction specialist.
It is hard work and your body takes a toll.
I never seen this done before - I was glued to the screen from start to finish. What a great video! Thanks guys.
Me too! Loved it!!
Keeping It Dutch also dug a well, that was wicked to watch also, go check it out.
What a ride!
Me too!!
Years ago when I lived on a farm, we had a spring well. Awesome drinking water.
In 1978 I was lucky as heck, for my forever home they drilled 156', our gallonage per minute is eleven and a half. We had to open the well up once a year later because they placed the pump too close to the bottom and we got sand in the water. It is very good water with no odd tastes. We don't have to use any softener or anything unnatural. Our development is made up of 1-acre plots, I have the best well, with other families having to go 400' and one having to go that far and drilling 3 wells and then connecting them to get a legal 1 1/2 gal per min. Damn right, I was lucky and I know it and am thankful to God that I was.
I live in Thailand. Our old well collapsed. We came across a guy at the hardware store in his well truck. A couple of days later we had a new well.
Holy that is crazy deep . Wow . My well is 20 feet deep on my 7 acre property and pumps 4 gallon a minute year round for over 50 years . Artiesian well , we are so blessed with Aqua . Hope yours continues as long as ours has , bless your family .
I remember when my parents had their well drilled, but the majority of the work was done while I was in school. This is so awesome to be able to see it all happen!!! THANKS for sharing this milestone!!!
Good morning Lumnah family and everyone else. Loved watching this video and learned a lot. See well trucks down here regularly, but have never been this close to them doing the work. Thank you for bringing us along. Take care and have a blessed day. ❤️🍀
Great attitude getting of the grid with installing a well for water.
I pray and hope this man finds water to enjoy more freedom being free and independent Individual
You’re right about it looking like a carnival ride. Drilling for anything IS a carnival ride!
Al, it is always so nice to see you and Gina have such a positive outlook on things that would make most of us, myself included, pull our hair out. You and your family are such a great example of how we all should look at challenges! Blessings to you! ♥️
They are definatley NOT negatively mided people. The kind of people everyone wants to call friend.
Glad you finally got water Al and Gina! You are well on your way to accomplish your goals. You are both super hard workers. It's been a joy to watch your progress. My great-grandfather was a well driller. My grandfather worked for him some during the great depression. Great Grandpa drilled my parents well 61 years ago. When we built our house in 88',we went 70 ft., getting 25 gallons a minute. Looking forward to each new video!! God Bless!
What an incredible machine.I could watch this All day,
wow Love this thanks for Sharing I never knew how a Well Drillers work Now I learned something New awesome Video
They are using bentonite clay to pump into the well as they drill. The clay stabilizes the walls of the well and carries the cuttings away.
This is fascinating to watch!!! I live by a place that has bentonite clay so I see what it can be used for!!!
The bentonite is a lubricant.
@@myothernewname Well you could look at it that way but in well drilling it does several things. It also flushes the cuttings from the well, it holds the borehole together by expanding in the well hole thus holding the well sides together. In addition it cools the drill head and of last acts like a lubricant . So yes you are correct.
This clay comes form volcanic ash. When dry bentonite make contact with water it expands something like 17 times it volume.
It is also used to plug leaking dams and waterproofing basements walls. I’ve seen it used in mining and as a coating. But most of all modern well drill could not happen without it.
It also prevents accidental artesian conditions from occurring, although that is probably unlikely in this area.
Good Morning! Al, remember OGP is your forever home. You’ll only cry once. People say to us “oh nice, no water bill!” I reply “No, it was just all pre-paid.”
So true.
we're on a well and connected to the grid, so our bill comes every month.
@@allanulen3809 Shoot them in the face for that. That is against our bill of rights. We have a right to defend.
We don’t pay the local government for well water, but it requires energy to bring the water up out of the ground. So there are ongoing costs to it. Plus we distill ours. That is more time, work and energy cost. Being in an agricultural area with a high water table that is necessary to filter out as many pesticides, herbicides and animal waste run off as possible.. Our home came with a 25’ hand dug well and we took it to 60’. The operation was very much like what I see in the video, but not as deep. In the end I prefer my own water source to the chemical laden city and town stuff. Fluoride is very hard to remove.
For ever house till the divorce
Implement an above ground storage tank and you'll be fine. We had to go 800' and have about the same yield. The only time the well is challenged is when we have tons of people over for the holidays. But even then we've never been left high n' dry. Rock wells are often stingy with water but the quality at that depth can be quite excellent.
I was a mud man / pipe assistant on a rock well rig in central Michigan one summer. Looked like a well experienced crew did you right. You must get that drop & well pump in & flowing soon or you will regret the delay. Clear the throat & discover the nature of the aquafer they hit. Iron / calcium content, etc. The clay you went through is why you must get that pumping asap~
That's why we grout well casings in MI
Trivia - The drilling head was invented by Howard Hughes father and hasn't changed much since.
I just love the internet experts
Hughes did invent the Tri-Cone Rock Bit but the bit used for Hammer Drilling is plenty different.
An Irishman to be proud of.
Your right the Hughes tool company.......making Howard Hughes one of the richest men on the planet in his day.....
I had a new 5" well drilled last year and we found water at 46', I live in Michigan on a lake, the ground in mainly sandy and our water table is high here. Good luck with your new well.
Those men work lide a well oiled machine. Each does what is necessary with little wasted energy. Nice video, and educational. Thanks.
I worked in the Oil and Gas drilling tool industry for 13 years in my early life. The well is like an old telescoping antenna with the largest portion at the top. I used to thread the connections at each end of the drilling pipes and other "tools" they use for drilling. Heck I think I recognized the connections size and nomenclature.
That Water Well Drill I actually built the main frame! I use to be Main Frame Crew Leader at Reich Drill Phillipsburg PA. What is neat is watching something you built awhile ago then it shows up on your video!!! BTW great camera work on the Drill operations! Brings back many good memories! Also those drills are built 1 at a time! No mass production. We would only build about 30 a year.
That is awesome!!👍
You guys did a good job on the build 👍
Congratulations on your well and good luck with the remainder of your project. We did the same thing in 1995, 500 feet down without problems of any kind during these past years. We have the water rights with our land and do not worry about having our own private water well system.
The guys just wrenching away with the chain tongs on that casing. That will give you a workout in a second ! I worked in on the drilling rigs in Texas for over a decade. Pretty much the same process, just on a much larger scale.
Well, that was a fascinating video, had everything, information and suspense lol. Thanks for Sharing it, and thank the guys for allowing us to watch over their shoulders will you. I've never seen that done in such detail before. Well worth watching! 🤣💗
Love all of these OGP videos, thanks so much for sharing the adventure!
We drilled an Agricultural well in 2021; 360ft. 1.5 gpm recovery rate. We watered 1.5 acres of market garden directly from the well's water column all through the growing season DAILY for 8-10 hrs.(moderate drought) and never went dry. My wager is you'll be fine.
G'day from Australia, my father was a well borer most of his life, drilling over most of our continent. He used a vertical, reciprocating plant with casing. Slow going however much less expensive than the modern rotary plants. Some places he got 30000gallons/hour pumped , others a dry well. Some artesian bores where the water would gush up out of the ground, like some of your oil well gushers.
I think the drilling rig that your dad was on is called a cable-tool rig over here. A chisel is pounded to open the bore-hole and then the drill cuttings are cleared out by use of a bailer. There are still a few around but you don’t see them used very often.
@@noyopacific yes exactly, I used to “help” him during my school holidays if convenient. Loved aiming the bailer onto the Steel spike to open the “clacker valve” to empty it.
I supervised a quite large water utility maintenance department for part of my career. I took work tags and radio calls daily for fixing mainline breaks and other leaks and nearly every leak was described by the callers as “gushing water.” I got so sick of hearing that stupid word for every size leak imaginable. I would say in over 15 years in that job I saw maybe 10 that I would consider gushers. The rest were just routine leaks.
The most memorable was a 36” transmission main down a busy expressway that took a strong water hammer from nearby activity ripped open the pipe and blew massive amounts of water a few hundred feet into a large parking lot damaging a few hundred cars and trucks. Sadly, one guy’s restored classic car he’d always park far from the office building and other cars at the edge of the parking lot took the most direct hit.
All that to just say I hate that word and it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. That’s all.
Yeah as a aussies I’d guess it was a precaution rig they where popular in the old days I work in the artisan bore testing a lot of them flow at over 60ls with 70m of head pressure at over 100c the town of Thargomindah was the first place in aus to have street lights over night due to the thermal electric plant that runs off the bore
@@tim.sorensen5862 I recollect that some towns in Qld Artesian Basin have/had hot running water reticulated to the houses from underground water bores.
Oh, I am so happy to see you again. I've missed you so much. Just getting internet back after Hurricane Ida made the power lines, in rural St. Tammany Parish, look like silly string.
So happy for you. I watch a beekeeper in SE Louisiana, Mike Barry. I hope he gets hooked up soon.
Watching that is both educational and a source of price in American Machinery and the American worker. Love it!
We are so happy 🥳 for you guys got water 💦 abundantly flowi so much needed in the homestead we enjoy your videos taking us on your journey experience 🥰
Thank you ❤ 🙏
Thanks for videoing this , it brought back memories of working for a well driller back in Maryland over 20 years ago , done this for six years I can even still smell the drillings and the hammer oil and the diesel fumes . good luck with your homestead .
Gina looking good for the well drillers looks like she put on makeup and did her hair pretty.
Great taping and editing, Al! This was very easy to follow and we all learned a lot from your efforts! Thanks for taking us along.
God Bless You, Folks!!! Some others have gone much deeper. I'm happy for you! Gosh, it truly is a hit & miss isn't it? Wishing you the best of Luck!!!!
280 feet here and we live in the MS Delta. Pure water from what they call sand water. No filters needed. Sand is an excellent aquifer because it has the porosity and permeability to produce huge quantities of water. It also has great filtration properties.
EXCELLENT footage of the process. Great narration Al. Never saw this done before. My well in the mountains (I've since moved) was 1,000 ft. Pricey to replace well pump. Currently my depth is 70ft. When you have to replace well pump the cost depends on the depth of well.
Good morning Lumnah's and friends. Solar power is going to be awesome when it is all done. I just hope Al, that you get lots of sunshine and not rain, so that you get the full potential out of the solar panels. Have a great and blessed day everyone!
Gooooood Morning
27:28 if I only has some sieves, a pug mill, a throwing wheel and a kiln. Le sigh...
@@LumnahAcres will you share the total cost of drilling the well? I know prices are different in each state.
Good morning from s.e. MICHIGAN.,. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS'S NAME. I AM PRAYING FOR YOU
Good morning David! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Well Well two holes in the ground what else can I say can’t believe Iam watching this good luck and good buy
I grew up on well water iron water on the top of that, we had orange laundry for a while until we put in a filtration system it cleared up the water but it still had that iron water taste and it wasn’t bad after 15 years of drinking it.
Never seen anything like this before, not only was it fascinating to watch, it is also a real honour to be part of your families new adventure. BIG hello from East Yorkshire UK.
We have a 300' well with our pump sitting around 160' deep. I've been on well water most of my life, deep wells are just the way to go. Least with your solar/backup system you will be able to keep your pumps going and not rely on the power company. I have a backup generator to run mine when the power goes off.
Wonderful video on the entire process!!
Fracking is water pumped into a stratum at depth to fracture the rock layer where the water, or oil, is. This allows the water to flow back to the drilled hole and up to the well head. It increases the amount of fluid you can extract. But it tends to drop off rather more quickly than a conventional well into a source.
Good morning 😊 man I can’t get over the cool machinery you guys have in the States! Serious machinery but fun to watch 😆👍
Gooooood Morning yes it is a crazy machine.
Howdy Agnes!
@@samvalentine3206 Hi Sam 😊
Crazy expensive!!
I can tell that no one here in the comments has ever watched Deepwater Horizon or ever been anywhere near an actual drilling rig
Good morning...Happy Thursday to you...Hi Al and Gina ,🌟🌟🌟
Gooooood Morning
Good morning and happy Thursday to you too! ☕️🌅
@@LumnahAcres ..Good morning Al And Gina...
@@Heisstrong ..Good morning how are you this Thursday morning..
@@cocoadivamgold1371 I doing very good this morning…I hope you are doing well too! 👍🏻
Great drilling crew indeed ,hello from remote rural NSW Australia off grid here opal miner so I could see the professionalism of the drill team, here its about $30 a foot.
I have had no idea how they do this, so thanks for showing us.
Good morning Lumnah family ☕️ day 2 my back and shoulders were hurting watching them load and wrench that pipe… tough guys are awesome… I was guessing 380’… have a blessed day
Howdy Joseph!
Good morning Joseph. From MICHIGAN ✝️🛐🛐🇺🇸
@@samvalentine3206 hi SAM. Good morning from MICHIGAN ✝️🛐🛐🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@evalinawarne1337 ☕️😎
@@samvalentine3206 ☕️😎 good morning Sam
what a great video. i know a little about well drilling but never have seen the whole process. My late father in law had property out in the mohave desert, and I remember him telling me about his well drilling. he hit water at 90, and ran the drill down to 120. he filled a lake with that. i have never had to drill myself so this became my personal well drilling experience. thanks for the share!
Nice video. Thanks for taking us along. Should be plenty of water. 👍
That was exciting! Full of suspense and had a happy ending. Good luck ! God bless!
My Dad had to get a new well drilled at his house and hit water at 50 feet... the old one, which dried up for a couple of weeks but then started working again after the new one was drilled was only ten feet deep... We were moaning about 50 feet but to hear 500 700 800 feet , we're pretty lucky to be on a huge unconfined aquifer
There is no way I'd trust a well at 10' or even 50'. To much contamination, even from natural sources.
@@robnorth8514 ours provided beautiful clear clean sweet fresh water for the 60 years it was in use... but perhaps your thought would sensibly apply to the environment where you live.
@@toamaori did you/they ever have it tested, or did they just go by taste? Just because it looks clean and doesn't taste bad didn't mean it was good to drink.
At 10 ft I wouldnt use that water for anything not even a shower. If you have to drill for wells you probably have to be on a septic system also which operates at that level.
@@bryanlas like I said 60 years of beautiful clear sweet water until the local vineyards lowered the water table through their water use.... maybe in your environment that rings true but not where I live.
The stress of not knowing how deep you will need to go, hence, the cost, is exhausting. Probably had high adrenaline load as well. No wonder you slept so well.
If you don’t hit water I need to start drilling someplace else, The cost starts all over again.
This is why the first thing you do is find water!!! I am from the smokie mountains of NC and I thought it was just common knowledge to find a vein of water to know where to drill. You get someone to "water witch" some call it "water dousing". This is done with a forked peach tree limb or two copper wires. Most find two veins so you have an option in case the drain field for the septic interferes. I saw an old timer one time that could even tell you how deep the water vein is with a small straight peach tree limb! Most of the time he could hit it within 3'. You should also pick a place where two veins cross. My well has excellent water and have been told it tastes good enough to be sold. My well was drilled in 1990. We hit water at 93' and get 22 gallons/ minutes!!! Find water first then that determines where you build and everything else goes?! Most well drillers don't care where they drill because they get paid by the foot????? Although my driller also "witched" my vein to double check my previous guy. He said the first guy was spot on!
But what do I know?, I'm just a dumb hillbilly!
This is a huge step! Digging a well is close to one of the most expensive things to have done on our homesteads for sure! Congratulations!
I'm gonna have to have a new drill dug out of pur curiosity how much per foot and about how much did it cost please so I could have an idea to save up
Congratulation on the water. GOD BLESS.
to put it simply, hydro-fracking (short for hydraulic fracturing) is where they pump liquid back down the shaft under pressure, fracturing the rock, so water (or oil & natural gas) can escape thru the cracks from deeper down, into the well shaft to be pumped out.
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Hydrofracturing (water wells) is a little different than hydraulic fracturing (O&G). In the water industry, hard rock formations like the one in this video involve pumping high pressure water into the well, which cleans up existing fractures, but does not typically create new fractures. In the oilfield, the frac solution (mostly water, but with some minor additions) is pumped into the well, wherein new fractures are created in formations like shale, proppant (essentially sand) is pumped into the new fractures in order to hold them open when the pressure drops. This allows the oil and gas to flow more freely towards the borehole. The key difference is that hydrofracturing water wells is done strictly with clean water, and no proppant. (I am the engineer at a company who makes tools for groundwater wells).
@@Husqvarna85 Thanks for the additional info... I knew that with water wells they ONLY use water, for the hydraulic pressure, but I was always under the impression that the goal was still to Increase the fracturing in the rock...just as in oil and gas wells.
Yes we know. You’re the 10th person to say it
@@Husqvarna85water, sand and brine
As a Geologist...Depth depends on many factors. Depth of casing to keep out surface water, rock types, topographic location, and any subsurface geological features such as faults etc. If your primary porosity (porosity of rock) is low you will be looking for secondary porosity (fractures and faults).
Wow!
If only other folks in this wonderful nation understood the uncertainty of drilling for water or other substances. It's a gamble. Hoping for 300 for you.
The reason I love watching your videos, Al, is that you explain everything so well.
Had a well drilled in ‘96 in Sonoma Co CA. They went 680 ft plus an additional 50ft for a total of 730ft, the well produce 10 gal per min at the surface so we added 2500 gal water storage. Increased the value of that property by plenty, the total cost with pump, pipe, wire and solenoid boxes was $24k, probably would.be $100k today.
I'm in Sonoma County too! The family ranch had been spring dependent but what was once 1200 gallons a day had dropped to less than 300. Neighbors over the decades had attempted wells but there is a solid rock cap and technology then wouldn't drill through that. My parents wouldn't consider a well. After they passed I brought in a carbide percussion drilling rig. It cut through the rock like butter. It broke through that at about 120 feet into heavily fractured greenstone. At 380 feet we had over 45 gpm. And I cut them off there. My geologist claims carbon testing of rocks has identified my strata as Lake Tahoe percolation. As the serpentine matched the south shore. He assures me Lake water percolation is the source. Thus drought proof. It just seems to me to be too far away. But the lake is 7000 ft elevation. And probably 400 miles east. Even before this they had identified a localized area as uplift from Sierras. I guess they know their business.
I have drilled quite a few 50 foot wells with 10 gpm in Md.
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Anytime fracking is undertaken it usually is a reference to the fracturing of the rock or surrounding strata that is in the ground and by creating many tiny fracture lines in the rock it allows more fluid to pass into the well uptake point. It does have its fans and enemies..
Only had one well drilled here in New Hampshire. 620 feet, 20gpm, beautiful water, no fracking. The water level came up to about 20 feet from the surface. Granite bedrock gives good water, gotta watch out for arsenic and radium though. Fortunately our well was good.
We have well water here on New England, well water is usually very hard water. I would suggest looking into a reverse osmosis filtration system for your water. It will not only soften the water but will also prolong the life of your pipes. I wish I had.
You are righty to warn them it'll eat up your appliances too.
@@brenda324 It makes all the shut off valves get stuck on open too. I hope they treat their water somehow. Everything gets clogged and we have a water softener. Clothes won't wash very well either. They live in New England and I hope they know about hard water.
Never use reverse osmosis on a well out west. RO wastes 2 gallons of water for every one it produces. We can’t afford to waste ground water here in Colorado.
@@tommysanfilippo3165 I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me! That is such a waste.
Heck yeah! I would've guessed good water at around 260' with all the spring fed ponds and creeks there, but I live in Florida, big difference. I'm glad you'll be able to move forward a little easier with the well drilled now, it makes a huge difference in attitude towards building. Love ya'll and what you do!
Very well, it is well done, and you got a new well. You should be well now and no worries. Congrats!
Hitting bedrock early on is a good thing. Saves on casing cost and sometimes you hit a water vein within 100' of solid ledge.
I kept low-key, hoping when the guy was sifting he would come over and say "Well the problem is we hit gold." or the drill would hit an oil gusher. 😺
That would have been amazing. I was hoping for the same thing 😆
Beverly Hillbillies style!!
Shallow oil wells usually don't gush. In my area we have oil wells that are less than a 100 ft deep. They use pumpers to get it out.
@@rickster9993 depends on pressure
In that case if you don’t own the mineral rights, you’ll be in trouble.
CARR Well drilling is a really good company , they are my neighbors and are good people.
Great adventure ! Loved your water well drilling moments 😀
Wow its beautiful out there!!
Hydraulic Fracturing is where they pump water down a well at extreme pressure to break up rocks to let the water flow. It is also sometimes done with an explosive charge.
BTW: Acting normal and not looking directly at the deer is the best way to have them stay around. If they think you are doing something other than hunting them, they won't run away so easily.
We built our homestead two years ago. We are in northern Wisconsin. Our well was 200 ft through red and black granite and I thought that was deep! I can’t imagine having the well depths in your area! I am loving seeing all the progress and can’t wait to see more!
My well in northern Wisconsin is 22 feet deep and the water is 10 feet down. Good water too.
My well in NM is 800ft. But I'm pumping out 80gpm.
Even water is the greatest blessing, we all need water just to live.
Fascinating!
Always a good idea to check to see where the aquifers are before buying a piece a land to live on. Also every well that drilled in the us is registered and all data available so you can check to see what the average depth that you can reasonably expect to hit water would be and roughly calculate how much it'll cost before hand. Even private wells that are placed by individuals are supposed to register that well with their county or parish or they can actually fine you and force you to cap that well.
Good advice
There is no such requirement.
@@StevenCrothers While the majority of states allow for private well-digging with the approval of a permit, a handful of states restrict digging ONLY to licensed professional contractors. In these cases, the permit is usually filled and managed by the contractor using the information provided by the property owner.
There are a handful of states that don't require a permit or license, but it is still best practice to check for guidelines that must be adhered to.
A full list of groundwater laws for each state including permit and license requirements, lists of licensed well contractors, and official well water guides published by various water resources departments.
Do you want the full list of every state or can you handle that part for yourself princess.
@@dimetrekorsikov5643 Hey sweetheart, I'm glad you were able to admit you were wrong.
Every state has different requirements, so when you said "all US states" I'm glad you were able to later admit you were wrong.
Further, yes, most states have permit requirements, some of those states have municipal exceptions, most of those states have other agricultural rules. However, you know what most of these states that require permits don't have? Depth, flow, and status information!
You need a permit to dig a hole, in "most" places. That permit simply states you're allowed to dig the hole. Some states with that permit even require grouting inspections. Key word, some.
Most of those states with those permits dont require specs.
So when you said "All US states have this information" you were wrong, and I'm glad you could admit that.
Snowflake.
@@StevenCrothers all states do have records of wells that have been dug and all states do have laws regarding the safe capping of wells to prevent water contamination of any aquifer or public water source. Those are facts. There are wells that are in violation of these laws that every state has along with federal laws, but that doesn't change the fact of the original statement. Tax assessors record a plethora of information about private property and any residence that isn't supplied by outside water utilities are assumed to have an independent source of water. All public aquifers and water sheds are measured and monitored by every state and every effort is made to identify the users of those aquifers. Whether or not the user is aware of this fact, it doesn't change the fact. Certainly, there are natural springs and top water resources that people use, but we're talking about wells that rely on underground water stored in the earth, and those records are kept.
All state-level policies in the United States that directly reference private wells. The search, updated in April 2018, confirmed the existing water policy list and identified 23 additional policies. Policies were then coded according to nine not-mutually-exclusive classifications. The results indicate that all states had at least one policy addressing private well drilling or construction. ALL STATES.... get your mommy to read the comment for you and if you rub her corns she might just explain it to you.
The Beverly Hillbillys theme keeps running through my head
Even as a kid, I hated that TV program.
And Up through the ground came a bubblin crude. LOL I had that thought also.
I'm sure that Al & Gina would have been happier to hit that "crude" than have to pay out that huge drilling bill for such a tiny amount of water per minute = 1 1/2 gallons per minute isn't very good. Here you have to have a minimum of 3 gallons per minute or you keep drilling.
@@denisewilson8367 Yeah, where I live min. is 1 1/2 per minute as with Al. My well gives me 11 1/2 per min. We drilled it in 1978 People all around us do superhuman things to get the minimum. I consider myself lucky as can be for that!
My father was a driller. Had his own rig for a while. This brought back some memories.
ALL IS VERY GOOD AND HARD WORK.
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We had a well drilled in the town of Rehoboth, MA. Went down 475 feet and had 0.5 gpm. To go deeper, they would have had to bring in a different rig, but that assured us that there would always be 300 gallons in the pipe above the pump. Some years later we had a well drilled in a different part of town and they his a pressurized pocket at 80 feet. There was mud everywhere, on the rig, in the trees, on the back of the house, and the guys were still laughing. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.
Very therapeutic watching this
wow, super video! real life! a good thought!