Siting
Whilst you have a pretty good chance of finding water everywhere, I can pick a site if the customer wishes using the old fashioned divining method. Although I do not guarantee water, my success rate is pretty good. I will never claim to be able to ‘find’ water. What I am finding are fractures or variations in the strata which should be carrying water.
Under no circumstances will we guarantee the quality or quantity of the water.
Drilling
We offer a range of bores from 2″ (50mm) environmental bores, 5" (125mm) bores for stock and domestic or small to medium irrigation and 6" (150mm) and larger for larger scale irrigation. All of our bores are fully cased top to bottom, sealed and cemented.
All bores are constructed to exceed the standards set out in “The Minimum Construction Requirements for Water Bores in Australia”.
Note: All of our bores are cased the entire way from top to bottom, unlike other cut price bores we have seen that are only cased down to the rock, then left ‘open hole’ and not even cemented in. This is not good practice as bits of rock may become dislodged and fall down the hole behind the pump effectively jamming it in the bore.
Capacity Testing
We can give a pretty good estimate on the bores yield during drilling and development (post drilling) and this is usually satisfactory for pump selection. In order to obtain a more accurate figure, a capacity test will need to be carried out. This involves installing a test pump in the bore and pumping it for a pre-determined period of time (usually 3 – 5 hours for stock and domestic, or up to 48 hrs for irrigation) whilst monitoring the draw-down of the water level in the bore.
