Bore Permits in NSW: Water NSW does the applications, they're mandatory to drill a bore, cost about $1K for a domestic use bore and then you can pump as much as you require for domestic purposes, within reason - because you can deplete an aquafer by pumping too much, so it's a precious resource to be respected. I mentioned 'registeted' bores in this video because back in the days some people may have drilled unregistered ones, nowadays it's a lot more strict with drillers requiring to see an application approved before booking you in. Bore needs to be (if I remember correctly) 40m from any gullies/Billabongs etc. and 50m minimum away from septic system. 👍
Impressive. A little curious though, was the metallic case installed all the way and joined to the sump? Drilled water in our farm (around Kilimanjaro-Chumvini) found water at 28M but continued drilling to 60M (second "river"). At the moment the water level is around 26M I have 2 solar pumps one at 30M (small one) and another 28M (bigger one) both serving me so well, from the video am now wondering was the extra 60M really necessary?
@@kivaya that metal casing went down to the bedrock only, and was jackhammered into it a bit. Then past the bedrock it was no longer necessary. Wow 60m is a long way down, the worst droughts shouldn't affect a depth like that 🙂
Who did you guys use to dowse for you? My guy is usually Juergen Schmidt, here in SA… but not having much luck contacting him at the moment. I’m impressed that your dowser got the depth correct too. Cheers, Joe
Thanks Gene 🙂 and good on you guys, it's such an important investment that completely changes the experience of being on the land, wishing you all the best in finding good water 🤞
Hi..after putting down the pvc casing dont you put silica gravel sand in between casing and drilled hole to work as filtration to avoid sand particles to go through the screened casing at the bottom
On this occasion we didn't, maybe some other operators do. After we had already put the bore pump down the well, we learned from these comments that you can DIY install a flow sleeve on the bore pump. It's just another PVC pipe that covers the pump, so that it sucks water in from the bottom. This helps sand particles to fall to the bottom of the well, instead of coming in through the side inlet of the pump. But even without the sleeve, the amount of sediment we have coming through the pump is really minimal
There's no way to know for sure how big an aquafer is. In this instance the standing water level is pretty high (about 20 metres) so it's like having a 20 metre deep reservoir. With that said, it's always important to respect water sources and only take as much as necessary because if it does run out it could take a very long time for water to seep into the aquafer again.
dowsing rods are pure BS do indeed move, but not in response to anything underground. They are simply responding to the random movements of the person holding the rods
I used to think the same too. But when i hired the professional to do it, he used to the dowsing rod first to find the right spot. After that , he used the PQWT detector to confirm. After drilling on the said spot for about 120 ft, the water was found and alot too.
Slow motion photography has shown that the movement of the rods is caused by tiny, almost imperceptible movements in the hands of the water diviner. Whatever object the diviner is looking for underground applies no direct force to the divining rods, it is the diviner moving them.
Water NSW does the applications, they're about $1K and then you can pump as much as you require, within reason - because you can deplete an aquafer by pumping too much, so it's a precious resource to be respected. I mentioned 'registeted' bores as back in the days some people may have drilled unregistered ones, nowadays it's a lot more strict with drillers requiring to see an application approved before booking you in. Bore needs to be (if I remember correctly) 40m from any gullies/Billabongs etc. and 50m minimum away from septic system. 👍
There is no reason dousing would ever work; it is effectively magic. Affordable methods that can be used include: Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Seismic Refraction, and existing Government water table databases.
It's a funny thing like that as science technically disproved it, but for many, many generations old farmers have found groundwater with divining, and all bore drilling businesses have divining rods...
James Brown, I am a professional water diviner servicing a part of Queensland where underground water is scarce. Only about 10% of rural properties I divine contain underground water with a flow volume and water quality worth drilling. My success rate to date is 99% as I have only got one call wrong where the hole produced sloppy mud instead of liquid water. I have an Honours Degree in Applied Science from the University of Queensland. I know divining should not work, but it works perfectly for me and has done since I was 14 years old. I do not know the exact mechanics of how it works but it is definitely related to the void in underground rocks where the actual water flows and is not related to the presence of the water. In this part of the world, the scientifically-based alternatives you recommend are next to useless. Drillers who rely solely on selecting the drill site using these alternatives have a dismal success rate. Landholders are well aware of this and around here, they all ask for a professional diviner to make the final decision of where to drill.
Yes James, when you see it done it seems like magic, but it does work. The dowser detects fractures or voids in the underlying rock where hopefully water will be flowing. The fractures in the rock occur during movements in the earth's crust layer or when volcanic rock layers cool after reaching the surface during volcanic eruptions. Cooling causes contraction and consequent cracking. Sometimes there is water in these cracks if the crack is attached to an aquifer. If the crack is not attached to an aquifer, it does not carry flowing water. The equipment you mention also locates these underground fractures.
For 42m depth, it's 200 x 42 = $8.4K under normal circumstances, plus the $1K permit fee is like $9.4K Most people don't need steel casing but if you do, you add that on top because the steel casing is extra addition and extra process. So as an example 30 x 300 = $9K So $18.4K total without pump. Not a cheap exercise but it's water for life and is an asset.
Cheers, it's not easy to find the right kind of fruit to take on a crazy project like this with. But yeah let's keep comments PG here, we're running a wholesome operation for free knowledge sharing ✌️
I have an Honors Degree in Applied Science from the University of Queensland and a Post Graduate qualification. Over my 40 year working life as a scientist, I have conducted or overseen thousands of scientific experiments in the areas of physics, chemistry and biology using the scientific method. I have scrutinized to the nth degree all the scientifically controlled tests conducted to date on water divining , including the one you refer to. These include the test conducted in Italy by the American magician James Randi, the tests conducted in Australia by James Randi and also by Dick Smith and James Randi in 1989, the test conducted by the German government, and the tests conducted by The Australian Skeptics Inc in Australia. While many of these tests were conducted in a scientific manner, none of them tested what dowsers do, which is to find water in cracks in rocks underground. Not one of these tests involved experimenters drilling a hole where the dowser says there is water and another hole 1 yard or so away where the dowser says there is no water. As such, we have no scientifically-obtained data to draw on to conclude if dowsing is effective or not. The experiments that have been conducted were all done on models of what a dowser does, not on the real world situation. Because the variables in the 2 situations (real world and model of real world) are different, you cannot extrapolate the results from the model experiments to the real world situation. Unfortunately, this is what skeptics have done and lay people who have no concept of scientific experimental protocols have been well and truly hoodwinked into believing the skeptic’s claims.
The Dick Smith experiment in 1989 involved asking diviners to find bottles containing water that had been placed in holes in the ground. This is not what diviners do - they find water in cracks in underground rocks and therefore this experiment was not valid in determining if dowsing does or does not work.
This experiment was done in 1989 in Australia and showed that water diviners could not detect the presence of bottles of water placed in holes in the ground under a layer of carpet at a frequency greater than chance. Unfortunately, it was not a test that asked diviners to find water in cracks in underground rocks, so there is a question about the validity of the experiment.
