Average depth of the water wells in your area?

[Whitewing]

I've got a well that's drilled to about 110 meters......and it's not producing enough water for the expenditure I made.

From what I understand, it's drilled down to a rock layer that runs through the entire area and is about 10 meters thick. Drill through that rock layer and there's supposed to be a 'river' of water below.

Guess I'll find out next year when we re-enter and drill deeper.

What's the story in your area?

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Our old well was 16 feet and had 4 feet of water. We drilled a new 50 footer and hit another stream giving us over 40 feet of water on a 30 inch crib. We don't use it because we tapped a spring that runs water to the house and barn on gravity. 4o pounds of pressure coming down the line.

 

[Whitewing]

Our old well was 16 feet and had 4 feet of water. We drilled a new 50 footer and hit another stream giving us over 40 feet of water on a 30 inch crib. We don't use it because we tapped a spring that runs water to the house and barn on gravity. 4o pounds of pressure coming down the line.

I hate you.

 

[RobinFarmandRanch]

I could practically dig a hole in the pasture and it will fill up with water. But in all seriousness, our last well is at 65 ft. But we also pump out of the bayou.

 

[leanin' H]

Our well has a 12" casing and is 190 feet deep. Our static water level comes up to 18 feet below the top of the casing. Our pump sits at 120 feet and when pumping all we can, the static level drops 3 feet and stays. The average depth around us is about 250'. Did ya get somebody to "witch" the spot ya drilled?

 

[Justin]

we have several range wells but i can't say for sure how deep they are. the well here at the headquarters is about 500 ft and at another set of buildings there is one about 420 ft.

 

[Triangle Bar]

My main irrigation well is cased down to 220 ft and has a static water level of around 20 ft. With the pump set at 60 ft, she'll produce 2300 gallons/minute and draw down about 5 ft.

My Dad is quite the well 'witch', he's located a lot wells in these parts.

 

[leanin' H]

My main irrigation well is cased down to 220 ft and has a static water level of around 20 ft. With the pump set at 60 ft, she'll produce 2300 gallons/minute and draw down about 5 ft.

My Dad is quite the well 'witch', he's located a lot wells in these parts.

WOW! Now that is a well!!!!!!!!! Its amazing to watch somebody witch a well. I can't do it but I know a couple of guys that can. They are so good it's sorta spooky! :shock:

 

[Anonymous]

Most the wells on our place are 8-12 feet deep- hand dug and rocked in in the early 1900's- and are spring water....The well on the south place is about 60 feet deep--altho neighbors just a mile or so away have had to go down hundreds and/or thousands of feet to get water (a lot of which is pretty bad water with lots of mineral and salt)... 1/2 mile from my house- my cousin has an artesian well that puts out warm water for his cows all winter....

 

[per]

Anywhere from coming out of the ground to 120 feet. Most are artesian and from 10 gal/min to 200 gal/min. I am not bad at witching but other than finding water lines and power lines it is not that useful as we drill where we want the well because there will most likely be water there.

 

[burnt]

100 -200 feet here. Ours is less than 100 with water 30' from the top. Never been pumped down hard in my time so I don't know what volume it will do.

Good drinking water although on the hard side with enough iron to keep me in the tap washer replacement business.

Then there is THE WELL about 20 miles north of us in the village of Formosa. In the late 1800's, some business interests decided to drill for coal oil in a little valley in the bottom of which runs Stony Creek.

But much to their disappointment, instead of hitting any kind of oil, the drillers hit a gusher of clean, cold water at about 1000'. True to their German ancestry, someone from the locality started a successful brewery to slake the thirst of the villagers and surrounding community.

After a long profitable run, the brewery was moved to another location and for a long time the well gushed all of its water into the nearby stream.

Then around 1990 a company from Nebraska bought the well and as many as 24 tankers a days headed south to Omaha to be bottled as a flavoured water drink under the label of "Clearly Canadian".

This water well has probably made its various owners more money than if it had yielded the oil its first owners had hoped to find.

Now it has been resold to a local water bottler and again, most of the water runs into Stony Creek.

But the interesting part in the strength of the flow - the water shoots 12 feet into the air, coming out of a 5 or 6" pipe! Never more, never less, until they start the pump to fill the water tankers that haul this beautiful and copious resource to the city for bottling.

 

[Grassfarmer]

Generally good for water round here - our wells are about 40 feet deep and produce about 20-25 gall/min without dropping the level. Being a "flatlander" now I really miss the spring fed gravity systems we had in Scotland. If the power goes off here we have no water straight away.
I find I can witch water pipes and buried cables in the yard but can't quantify amount or depth of water under ground out in the field so it's not really a help. Had an old timer, a lifelong "expert" witcher come out a couple of years ago to identify and drill a well for a nosepump. Spent about 3 days and $800 to discover he couldn't find water either

 

[Whitewing]

I'm actually amazed reading some of these responses. Looking at the photos many have posted of their areas, I'd be inclined to think that most of you have to drill deeply for decent water, but that appears not to be the case.

Thanks all for the comments and the interesting stories as well.

 

[Trinity man]

Our drink water wells are 26-75 ft deep. The artesian wells are any where from 300-500 ft deep depending on how much pressure. One of these wells hold around 30 lb pressure and flow a two and a half inch stream.

 

[bverellen]

Average depth to the water table is about 4'.........

......They drill the wells here to 21' so as to be able to charge for the whole length of pipe :wink:


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[nenmrancher]

We have anything from a old hand dug rock lined well that supplies the houses and corrals that is about 15 or 20' deep to around 500'. We run everything from windmills to solar outfits with some submerisbles thrown in the mix to keep things interesting.

 

[RSL]

Thursday at 3pm

And the water truck behind

Rig from mom and dad's yard

Rig Close up

Friday at noon

I am now 100% positive that water is between 157 and 180 feet deep and is hopefully flowing at 10 GPM. Pump and pitless adapter are all in place.

 

[burnt]

RSL, did you run power to that well or will it be solar?

 

[RSL]

I will run power. Just to the left in the final picture are survey stakes outlining the back wall of a planned new house. Now if I can just get this one in town sold...