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Old 05-14-2017, 09:44 PM
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Just wondering if anyone has done a driven well. Will be for water to use but not drink in an RV on a piece of rec property. Seems like it might be worth a try. Ground is sandy and near a river. Thanks
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Just wondering if anyone has done a driven well. Will be for water to use but not drink in an RV on a piece of rec property. Seems like it might be worth a try. Ground is sandy and near a river. Thanks
I would think you would want to have someone that is good at witching to pin point where the best area is even though you are close to a river, here is a link to look at for some information.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/drive-y...eshwater-well/
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I worked for a water well drilling company for several years.
I have drilled wells with pounders.

They do work in many sandy soils.
Depending on how much the sand sticks together, they may work well or not.
Drilling mud and other fluids can make drilling (pounding) through sand easier even where conventional drilling has trouble.

But. The sand you see is probably only a few feed deep, what is below that may make or break the effort.

A Cable Tool (water well driver) does not do well in some subsoils. Gravel for example. Or very hard shale. Twist drills ( called a conventional) are a far better option in those soils.

A call to a local water well company may reveal what sub soils you may be dealing with.
Then again they may not tell you in the hopes that your effort fails and you have to call them to finish the job.

Not all water well companies are good neighbors.


As a rule of thumb, pounders will work almost anywhere a convention drill will but they can be slower.
On the plus side they are generally cheaper to operate and so charge less per foot drilled.
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I would think you would want to have someone that is good at witching to pin point where the best area is even though you are close to a river, here is a link to look at for some information.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/drive-y...eshwater-well/

Divining is always a good plan, but not always necessary.
A local water well company will usually know if divining is warranted or not.

Some areas have water almost everywhere one drills, others, sometimes only a few miles away have very little water or very localized sources (underground steams).
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