Drilling your own water well..

[Omicron]

How deep you have to go all depends on where you live. What I want to know is are the people that can come out and for a fee tell you if you have water under your land, and exactly how deep you need to go? Not thinking "dowsers" or those people that find water with a Y-shaped stick, but some real science using equipment (like ground penetrating radar?) and perhaps super-accurate geological surveys?

I hate the idea that you have to pay all that money for drillers and you may and may not hit water. Mountain property is especially bad about this, but being out on the plains is no guarantee you'll be over an aquifer either. Does anyone here know about this stuff, or refer me to a source that does?

[Waywardson174]

How deep you have to go all depends on where you live. What I want to know is are the people that can come out and for a fee tell you if you have water under your land, and exactly how deep you need to go? Not thinking "dowsers" or those people that find water with a Y-shaped stick, but some real science using equipment (like ground penetrating radar?) and perhaps super-accurate geological surveys?

I hate the idea that you have to pay all that money for drillers and you may and may not hit water. Mountain property is especially bad about this, but being out on the plains is no guarantee you'll be over an aquifer either. Does anyone here know about this stuff, or refer me to a source that does?

My late grandfather was a water witch. in 94 years he never recommended drilling a dry hole. Not sure about the rest of the dowsers out there, but I used to ride with him, and it was uncanny.