The key component of any homestead.....WATER! We maybe could have hooked onto the local Finch-Newton water utility, however, we are no where near their current lines so the cost to tap in would have been just as much as having a well drilled. Plus, now we are more self-sufficient and no water bill. This is personal preference on our part. We are trying to stay as off the grid as we can.
So apparently there is no science to this process at all. No voodoo magic anymore either. Witching wells is a thing of the past - although had I know they were just going to blindly drill I may have gone out there prior and see if I had any luck witching some water. The process now is to drill down with fingers crossed and hope you hit good water with good return. If not, drill again in a different spot. A dry hole will cost you money - so its really exciting if they hit water on first drill.
We had contacted our closest neighbor and knew they had a 68 foot deep well. So we had hope we would have the same luck.
After a couple hours of drilling they hit water at 55 feet. But the return was only around 1-2 gallons per minute. So we made the choice to keep going. They ended up at 215 feet and still pulling water. The flow upped to a solid 2 gallons per minute - which isn't great - but now we have about 150 extra feet of storage space to draw from too. The only thing this will limit us on is using too much water all at one time. So no watering the lawn, doing laundry, filling the pool, and taking a shower all at once. Otherwise we should be fine. Once we live with it for a while if we decide we use way more water than what we can draw at a time we can always add a cistern.
It was very exciting when they called and told us they hit water!
We used:
Scott Richardville, Richardville Well Drilling out of Evansville
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