Drilling your own water well..

[HBARleatherneck]

what? you can legally do it, I believe in many states. this just isnt one of them. i cant see the website, but I have seen machines like this. you arent likely to hit water in most of Colorado with one. Think Missouri or another state with a high water table.

[Great-Kazoo]

The well fee is only $40 bucks. But I don't get why people think wells are so difficult here. I see sump pumps that run 24x7 that are less than 20ft below grade.

Theres plenty of water table all over here.

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But is it potable, or unclaimed ? Water theft is like cattle rustling in wyo or montana.

[Wulf202]

The well fee is only $40 bucks. But I don't get why people think wells are so difficult here. I see sump pumps that run 24x7 that are less than 20ft below grade.

Theres plenty of water table all over here.

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the approved aquifers are far below that. They're at around 200' or more. Illegal to punch to the wrong one.

[Irving]

My family has dug to 90' (approved) only to come up dry.

[buffalobo]

The well that used to irrigate my land drew water from 37' when drilled late 60's and was 75' when stopped farming in 2000.

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[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?

[Irving]

I am under the impression that there is water table under just about the entire US, and it is just a matter of where you are for how deep you need to go. I am under this impression because of water table maps I've seen, and my college roommate who is now a geophysicist explaining the oil drilling process to me. Basically, to get to oil, you are almost always going through water first. That's the way I understood it.

[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.