440 Feet Later

Well, gone are the days of dowsers with their divining rod searching your yard for the best place to find water. Today, a spot is chosen and that's where you drill until water is found. It eventually happens (in this area anyway). However, this spot is not arbitrary. It must be:

• 50 feet from any property boundary, including the road side


• 150 feet from your leach field or any neighboring one


• 25 feet from the house


• 15 feet from the driveway


• accessible enough for the drill rig to get to

After lots of measuring, we found a few square feet that satisfied the criteria and put in a stake to mark the spot.

We hired Henshaw to do the job. Kirke has a great reputation and his business has drilled most of the wells in this neighborhood.

As you can see, it's a big rig:

This "slurry" is composed of very small particles of rock produced during the drilling. When wet, it feels like heavy sand.

Water was found at 440 feet -- a fairly deep well for this area. The water was tested and the results came back fine. And here it tis -- the finished well: