All about wells ..Where to DRILL or locate your well. 

whats the chance for me to find Water in my back yard in the Santa Monica Mountain area, California?

@@myricegirl I am not familiar with the geology in California I am in the eastern mountains of WV. So I can't with certainty say without seeing it. The one thing I do know your area is suffering extreme drought and has had a huge effect on water tables across the state. That said it should be possible if you have the financial ability to find deeper aquifers. I would definitely go the route of hiring a Company that does underground sonar that can detect deep water before drilling. Deep drilling is costly and you don't want to take risk not having at least some idea what is there before you spend that much. If any water is there ground sonar/radar can find it with pretty good accuracy.

any such Sonar can be found ie Etsy etc? I just asked a friend in Sunland who actually drilled a well, he has plenty of water, and he told me even the dry riverbed out front of his property has a torrent of underground river just 32 ft beneath, thats encourageing .

@@myricegirl yeah but one must be careful surface water often must be treated to be potable. Water passing through a river bed of gravel is still surface water and has contamination. To get potable clean water in most cases comes from below bedrock level. To get to it a well is drilled with casing ran to point below any surface water and grouted to seal well then drilled down to a clean aquifer or water sand. Of course surface water can be used with a approved treatment system.

Your post is loaded with bad info, especially the magic dousing horseshit.

Where I live in Australia all wells and bores drilled for a hundred years are logged so you can access this info a great service free

Exactly- I am a female but my grand daddy showed me when I was just a little girl back in the 80s ; I just showed my old man who was in the military 17 years and been all around the world but was clueless to it- I felt smart for a min, it was cool that my little simply southern self knew something useful to share

One day you may have to demonstrate, you never know.

Thanks

12 yrs later we still eating off this video. Some things are timeless. Thanks again

Can you tell me any more? Very interested.

@@NobodyCaresALot yes, he had two wire coat hangers that he had unbent to a right angle Then he held one in each hand pointed down He started walking towards growth After a few minutes the hangers (pointed downwards)crossed , in fact they absolutely crossed each other That is where he hired a driller to drill They did hit water .I do not remember how deep.i am guessing 20 feet, The pressure was good but water very salty and unusable The neighbor, about a mile away, directly south of us came running over because his pressure had dropped considerably and he was very unhappy We did not use the well anyway because of the saltiness But seeing the two hangers swing quickly and cross each other was amazing to me. Anyway my husband hauled water until.he had a stroke After that, very unfortunately, I sold the property and moved to the city two hours away Now, thirty years later. A mine was found north of town water was piped from town through our former property (which was south of town) my daughter looked up the property on google and owners south of the property are selling their properties at one hundred thousand dollars an acre Each parcel could be divided upto three ways, including your own, so evidently the parcels had been divided many many times I would have had to sell it shortly after water was brought in because the real estate taxes were already getting steep, but we would have certainly sold it for more money

@@diankreczmer6595 what a great comment! Thanks a lot. I'm sorry to hear about your husband. Probably wise to move but definitely one of those crazy situations.

shovels and buckets

Ya, nobody talks about that stuff anymore because it’s supposedly not safe water. But a gazillion years of peoples have done dug wells cuz the extraterrestrial friends of the Egyptians didn’t come back

LOL ... that made me laugh.

+Larry Bradford Hahaha!

Engineer for ya

My grandparents had a cottage up in Canada a d thier water was just like that. Evey time we went the first thing we did was drink 3-4 glasses of water.

Never heard of such a thing anywhere in the states.

Many states/counties require a well permit. Check with your local building permit office, they will tell you if you do or not need a well permit. If you live in an area that requires a permit and they find out you drilled a well without one, they could make you retroactively permit it (if they are nice about it) or make you abandon and seal it (and you could further be subject to additional penalties and/or fines).

I believe you need many permits in some places. In Oregon, you can't start anything until you get a permit and a septic installed on rural land. With I knew before buying it! Lol..

Dagobert1234 The State of Washington requires a drilling and use permit....You see the State claims they own all water and mineral right and they :Allow" you to pump 5,000 gal a day for residential use..

That's because the water table is available anywhere on your property. Water doesn't flow around in tubes underground. Just about anywhere you dig or drill, there will be water.

www.mytopo.com/maps/

If its in flatlander country, then drill anywhere

Typically you have to do a perk test for the septic to determine its location in order to pull a building permit but codes vary. You can install the septic system after you build. I like to now I have water so I drill first. You can even consider drilling the well and building your house around it or at least have it in your basement for example. This protects it from freezing and no one can tamper with it. And its pretty cool to go to the basement in a power outage and be able to draw water from the well with a handpump.

Use a pressure washer down the tube, there's a video of it. Just type drilling a well in Florida is how I found it

That is beyond discouraging. I have a friend who driller 3 800 ft wells and has 2 dry holes and one that isn't very good.

How do I get a top0map?

Lisa & Bobby Stamey find water first! www.digwellwaterlocation.com

Lisa & Bobby Stamey Topographical Maps ? Search online for State or local sources. I Never go hiking, camping or hunting w/o them. They often are available in different scale sizes, I get the Larger Scaled maps when possible.

Rich Santoro You're full of shit.

Rich Santoro "I do not lie, ever." lmao! Now I KNOW you are full of shit.

+Sam Young Dowsing is bullshit.

my well was dowsed 20 years ago by a friend . he followed 3 under ground springs to the point where they came together and told me they were 27 feet deep . i used an excavator to dig it down . sure enough it was just like he said

Jorge D Martinez Mayol Hey, Dowser Dave here, you need a smackdown. 💪 👊🏻

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Felicia- You may be able to use a spring collection system and spring box . Please check these out @ PracticalPreppers.com. I also have many spring videos on my playlists.

Maybe he is a white Mexican? 😎

any luck yet?

@@jksmountaindream Haven't been able to get up there for good yet, caring for my mother. Perhaps will start something this year.

@@valeriemckay7064 I understand... we moved my Mother last year closer to a care center and she passed away in December. The cabin build had been put on hold from that and some health issues with me.

@@jksmountaindream Best of luck to you and good health.

@@valeriemckay7064 thank you

Christine Conroy .... There Are Whole Towns That Get Their Water From Natural Springs... There Is A Proper Way To Do It... You Just Have To Find Someone Who Knows How.

+1 same question.

Depends on what youre tryimg to accomplish. Too many variables to discuss on RU-vid. Call your local pump guy amd ask questions

We used 10 HP submersible pump for in 500 feet depth and our bore is 800 feet depth and bore dia is 12" inch.

about a 3hp 25gpm submersible.... im in florida we drill 400'-450' four inch wells but water level avg. is 20-40' which will sustain a 3hp 65gpm with significant head pressure.

horsepower means nothing unless you know how much volume and head pressure you need!!!!!..... wake up

I had worked at a power plant where I had access to copper about as thick as welding sticks. I used that to find water on my property, shallow, very smelly but used it for inside house and lawn. The old timers at the plant helped me with technique. Bend rod at one end so your hand can hold it, very lightly, walk slowly and when you get to an area the rods will start to cross over each other slowly at first, then all the way to where the rods are touching the opposite hand.