Deep well drilling in the desert near Joshua Tree (part 1)
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Let's learn about drilling a deep, DEEP water well, through mostly granite, in the middle of the desert in Southern California, near Joshua Tree.
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Not the usual review you see on my channel, but some cool stuff to learn none-the-less. What do y'all think?
How much did end up costing?
How did you pick the spot to drill ?
@@jimsjacob he replied and said his options were limited . I was wondering in they used ground based radar or some modern technology to find the best spot to drill ? I guess not .
@@ryanlangford2333 Probably $25K - $30K.
@@ryanlangford2333 a big splash
Thank you for explaining those steps for us. It is more complicated than I thought.
Thanks for the video. Memories!!
I grew up on a cattle and sheep ranch near Piñon New Mexico. My grandfather and mother homesteaded 1-section of land around 1910-/+ 5 years (we haven’t found the records). Anyway we had 3 water wells on the ranch they grew to about 10,000 acres in th 1960’s. Both of my grandparents were born in the 1880’s/90’s and my dad was born in 1939, he was their only child.
Anyway I came along in the 60’s. The area got a lot more rain than your land but with changing weather patterns, rain water was insufficient by 1950. So we drilled 3 wells at 1000+ feet. The water was amazing except for our property below the edge of the Sacramento. It was a yellow cake (sulfur) well. The water smelt like rotten eggs.
Our cattle loved it, but I hated it.
my grand pa did 500 acres in Wyoming in 1921 his friend left gave him 500 more acres but the acres is desolate still open land there now, they found oil hundred miles away
Wow, memories indeed! No sulfur smell here but lots of other stuff that shows up in my water rest video coming soon.
Really enjoyed your story though. Thanks for sharing it.
Bret
Thanks for the share!
Great history
This is the best video on the drilling process I've ever seen.
Thank you
Wow, thanks! Much appreciate hearing that.
Good job. Pretty much the same process is used to drill 20000 foot wells and deeper. Different equipment, fluids, pumps, etc. But the basic process is the same. They were using an “Air Hammer”, with compressed air, some water, an a commercial soap to make the foam. I’ve dried many wells to 10000’ or more in Pennsylvania using this process. You did a great job explaining for the novice. 😊
Thanks! Really appreciate the comment. And thx for watching.
Jim 20,000ft is more than 6,000m. 6km. What reason for so deep?
2. Can air blow out the chips from that depth? Or did you have foam assistance?
Thanks.
RSA.
@@antonhuman8446 air is only good to about 12000 ft. 20000 ft vertically is not uncommon with fluid mud. A lot of wells go horizontal at some depth and can go 30000 ft overall length.
Thanks!
@@jimjackson1087
Great video. Beautiful desert too. Thanks
Top casing is called surface casing. In the oil field they drill down past the freshwater, then push cement down the casing and up the sides to seal the surface water from the oil and gas formation. Then they start with a smaller diameter casing.
Interesting! Definitely different here with water, at least in this geology. Thx for sharing....
Different
Great video thank you very much, always interesting to see professionals doing what they do, including the way you made this video. Play through.
Thanks! And I agree... Was a real treat to watch those guys do what they do.
I believed I saw this water drilling operations a few years ago while driving along I-10 to Los Angeles. I'm impressed as well how the crew work as if they knew every steps of the drilling process. Thank you for uploading, very informative!
Glad you enjoyed it!
TX for sharing, Hope u had your purpose fulfilled after drilling! I was expecting the oild drilling and came here,lol.
Firstly appreciate your efforts to bring these experimental videos.
Glad you like them!
I watch the drilling of wells..
There will come a day when we need that
My father and the neighbor bought a well rig and drill pump and the three of us drilled our well set the casing and blew it clean 24” X 300’ we drilled five wells for four properties in the San Joaquin Valley.
Great easy to follow video.
Great job brother
Thank you.
I analyzed water samples from monitoring wells. On ocassion, I went out with our drilling crew. Thanks again for sharing the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video thank you very much, always interesting to see professionals doing what they do
Agreed, and thanks for watching!
Great job on video and narration! I am a retired drilling contractor of 42 years, My wife and I owned a very similar rig to this one and these are really amazing machines. Great job on putting this together and posting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating video, thanks for sharing.
Thx for watching!
Air rotary.
I used to drill water wells, with that method.
But also used CABLE TOOL rigs.
Here in the Canterbury plains, with gravel/ sands, we have to use a casing ALL the way.
Some wells 150 - 200 mts deep.
Than screen dropped in, and casing jacked back to expose the screen allows the water in.
Will add, cable tool also used for TEST DRILLING bridge piles and under buildings, to see what piles are needed.
Welded casing, so each weld had to be done properly. 3 runs on each.
Root run, bottom run, 3rd run to finish.
Cheers to all.
Oh wow, very different technique for what I assume are very different ground conditions. Thanks for sharing that!
looking forward to your next video, thanks
Thanks! Gotta get my butt in gear and put it together 🤦
Excellent narration. Very educational. Loved the video. Thank you!
Really glad you enjoyed it!
thanks for this super informative video, glad you like their service. we have parcels not too far away and might eventually need them/
Ohh glad I could help and definitely would recommend. Good luck to you!
How exciting is this deep drilling technology!
I find it very exciting! ;)
Being an 85 year old lifetime driller i appreciate video's like this,. OH the fork is actually called a breakout wrench, I lost a little finger to one like that :)
Oh man sorry to hear that! Thanks for the vernacular though!
Looks like a GEFCO 30 K.
Mine had a thousand cfm screw compressor and 3x4 mud pimp. Sold out in 2017 to a friendly competitor.
They just purchased a new 30k to comply with CA smog..my crew is still working with the new owner..Loved the work..never a dull moment😂
Awesome, thx for commenting!
I love the all new names you gave all of that equipment.....yep, you over-thought this one.
Yeah, clearly out of my depth here but I still hope and think it's interesting and useful to people not familiar with any of it!
@@LetsOverthinkThis Sorry if I sounded a smart ass there, many years in the drilling game and some descriptions make me cringe a bit, glad you got your water though. HNY for 2023.
Well we're all here to learn (I assume) so if you feel like it, mind correcting some of the descriptors for us all? Much appreciated!
@@LetsOverthinkThis a lot of the tools are custom made and there names are made up most of the time IV been to pump convention but most of the stuff made by a machine shop 🛠️💯👍✌️🍻💦
Very interesting Video & thanks for sharing 👍
I live about 15 miles north of JT near the Marine Base on 2.5 acres... fortunately we have water from the JTWD but I always wondered about the cost of putting in a well.
Thanks for the very informative video 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool. I’ve never seen this before. Always wondered how it was done. Great vid. Good job. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Educational plus fun to watch ! 👍
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating recovery of water------!
I thought so!
The deeper the water, the more pure and filtered.
That's true in some ways but not so much for the naturally radioactive water you get super deep 😉
always wondered what goes into drilling boreholes
740' in Menifee, pump at 240' never an issue since for over 17yrs. drilled in 2006
IR THE BEST DRILLING RIG AND COMPRESSOR
In Ireland there are many drilled wells we have one too . Made in the same way .
But we have a special insert on the bottom bit of the sleeve to make a water proof connection in to the rock. Because in Ireland a lot off what I call dirty ground water could leak in the well and can contaminate your well .
Interesting! Here, they pour concrete between the 20' steel sleeve and the surrounding rock to make sure no contamination can seep in (plus the concrete pad that's required surrounding the steel sleeve at ground level).
That makes sense. Yall get more rain than Texas.
If we got that much rain I would set up a rain water harvest system and skip the cost of the well.
Reason for 7:47 When they finish drilling a rod out and pulled it back a couple of feet is to keep the head clear of the debris. Water is pump to make sure the drill head is clear and not clogged. If not doing that you can actually suck up fine rock or sand Into the head and clogging the water port/nozzles. When you add another rod on. If you clogged your drill head it will overhead. The drill head is actually called a hammer head or hammer bit
Thank you for adding clarity and color! Much appreciated 🙌
Referred to them as "downhole hammer with flat bottom bit" when working in the Arkoma Basin of Arkansas and Oklahoma and the process as "air-drilling" and when no water you are "dusting" and when you encounter some water, you may need to "mist" or "foam" the air to create a wall cake. I was a wellsite geologist in the 70s & 80s.
Oh yea, These guys are really good at what they do. I’ve seen them in action.
Real pros. 👍
VERY cool!! Great narrative!! I learned something.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This man has successfully kept me engaged for a whole 11 minutes on a topic i didn't even need to know!
Excellent narration.
Simplified video footage
And the crew of North America drilling is amazing!
There is an end missing. Have you found water?
Thanks so so much for the compliments! And thanks for watching! As for the missing part, there's a part 2 😉
Impressive work, and a really nice video presentation. I'm fascinated by the process.
Thanks and I was too!
Wating for second part
Posted! Sorry for the delay.
The carousel is nice. We use a rod truck and trip in and out 800-1200 ft of pipe for good water. Lol
Good job
Thanks!
Wow awesome work in desert... Love from India
Thanks for watching and saying hi!
@@LetsOverthinkThis hello
This would be a wise business to get started in, for any high-school aged kids out there.
Right? Gotta have water and it ain't getting easier to find.
Thx for watching!
@@LetsOverthinkThis also a good reason to stay in school so you don't have to do this line of work. It not easy or fun it's hard on the body.
I drilled a well in Ireland I found loads of water at 100 feet but I went another hundred feet for column.i can Devine for water with copper rods
Curious, how do you know that works? I'm not saying it doesn't but have you ever done like an A/B test?
@@LetsOverthinkThis it doesn't work on anything less than very shallow surface water, I do electro-seismic groundwater surveying for a living its technology they use in the oil and gas industry to measure the depth of resistive liquids, I can tell you if there is a presence of water or not also at what depth it begins and ends also the yield youll have in gpm, accurate to a few feet.
I'm in the mountains and we have good water. The drillers hit water at about 80 feet but it's just surface water. The wells can be deep or shallow. My first well was at 240 feet. I had it re-drilled and they went close to 500 feet. My neighbor just drilled his well, 500 feet for 100 gallons a minute. I have watched them drill a few wells, not exciting but it is something to see.
Thanks for the comment. Which mountains are you referring to? And are you sure that's 100gpm?! That's an INSANELY high flow if true. 🤯
Very interesting, thank you
I thought so too, and thx for watching!
That's cool
i think they need a few of those in ridgecrest where i have property.
I am driller from Afghanistan 🇦🇫
Ideally speaking, and just a suggestion, that retention wall & collection pit, would be lined with thick plastic sheeting. In such sandy soil, water, liquids, does go deeper down than clay, loamie soil. But cool vid, well done and informative.
Interesting! To be honest I wasn't trying to prevent reabsorption since it's all just water and ground up rock with a little bit of biodegradable foaming agent adding in but yours is definitely a cleaner approach! 👍
My dad had a hammer drill rig do are well in Blue Diamond NV outside of las vegas in the 70s and they lost the hammer bit at 680 feet and had to start over. And he witched it with coat hangers that well had good water tell we left it in 2013.
I have help drill in California valley wasn't the funniest but the pay was good not to much water out there Los padra is a little bit better. I rather stay to the coast. I'm glad I stayed doing pump work and systems 💦🛠️👍✌️🍻💯
Great job. Well done. Are you thinking of some sort of solar for the pump ?
Yes the whole property will be solar... We're off grid here.
That said, the handful of 100w panels on my container nearby already handle the well pump easily.
Iam driller in iraq . I work in south iraq.
A Sah la malikom my brother...
How are things there, These days?
@@lifeisa.smalllesson4607 keep up the good work!
I like eggs
@@Trey4x4 indeed
Oil or water?
For low water yield, install lower water level probes to protect the pump.
Also a high water probe which will allow pump to start again.
Mind you, a gate valve at the top of pump riser can be set to control the outlet, to allow a medium flow rate.
Cheers, from Chch, New Zealand.
Hi Tony! You're right, though things are a little different with these new-fangled pumps. The pump itself has a water sensor in it so it doesn't run dry and I've tested it.... it just shows low water on the panel top-side and resumes when submerged again. Also, not being a traditional pump, you're not supposed to gate the output of it. I don't know how much that matters since it's already pushing against a potential 500 feet of head but none-the-less being a brushless digital drive, it can get confused by being gated.
The pump will empty into a big holding tank and I will definitely have a float switch at the top to keep it from overflowing. And I will likely have another float under that one which triggers the pump to turn back on so the pump isn't cycling a lot as that top switch gets triggered on and off. IE the "band" will be wider and the water will have to fall maybe a foot in that big tank for the well pump to switch on (and then it will get to stay on for a while instead of going on and off).
I also have something else up my sleeve: the pump has a very repeatable wattage curve that is dependent on the water depth which means I may build a little box that shuts off the well pump as the water gets low in the hole but BEFORE the pump actually senses it's dry, just to safeguard things.
Thanks for watching and for your contribution here!
That’s so cool . Joshua Tree and San Bernardino County don’t allow us to do anything on our land , let alone dig for a well. Just putting up a 5ft fence was mission impossible and a few ticket violations .
Oh wow that's weird since at least where I am (also in San Bernardino)you actually HAVE to have water before you can even get a permit to build anything. Which makes sense but I wonder what they expect you to do for water?
Anyway sorry to hear that. Thanks for watching and good luck to you!
isn't that the same county where Nestle pumped millions of gallons of spring water over the state allotment?
I know of places in Australia where bores go down nearly 1km . And water free flows at over 1m ltrs per day. Bores here now are capped, sealed & water is piped to tanks, troughs, homes, garden taps etc
Yeah, definitely not the deepest well out there. Jealous of that 1M ltr/day flow, but this is a desert and we were lucky to get water *at all*. :)
@@LetsOverthinkThis we have a great artesian basin here in Australia.. some bores only need to go down a couple of hundred mtrs others about 1 km . The pressure is natural not requiring water to be pumped to the surface , but to minimise evaporation , they must be capped, sealed , piped, water stored in tanks etc . On very isolated outback properties , Open drains were used yrs ago getting water to dams & isolated homes but evaporation rates were huge
I am driller from India🇮🇳
before exoect ti drill in the evening you need pray if where is the good water will come out. here in phillipines 4 days before the water will come out but it is non stop flowing and very vlear water. im pilipino watching here in phillipines.
Thank you for watching!
Hey man do you know if anyone ever sent a GoPro or something into these oil pockets? Because it seems like an underground ocean is down there and I would love to see how it looks like and if anything lived down there
Thanks for the comment. You mentioned oil but to be clear, this was water drilling, not oil. Also there is not an underground ocean: we're just hitting little streams of water between layers of rock.
Now that said, I have heard that sometimes while drilling, they do hit a big open pocket and that YES, they had even lowered a camera but in this case it was just a big open rock cavern. The only life you're going to find down here (if any) is microscopic....
Bravo.......check ur telling .....gold ......cheers
What was the cost per foot to drill?
Here in rural AZ the going rate is $45/foot
Unfortunately it was about 50% more expensive than that (!) which you can probably chalk up to higher labor and fuel costs here or the fact that it's hard drilling through granite the whole way. I mentioned this elsewhere, but North American was not the cheapest driller around but they were the most highly regarded and came most highly recommended, so it would have been less expensive otherwise.
Thanks for the question!
Seemed like a simple drilling. Ya, lots of rock but at least it's consistent ground. Drilled to 2,000 feet in Afghanistan and we were constantly pulling the drill rod out to change bits since the ground changed dramatically in such short distances.
Oh wow, yeah, I think the drilling was consistent. Must really add to the drilling time to keep having to pull all the rod out to change bits. Yikes.
Saw a drill bit made with 5/8” carbide rounded end pieces in the 60’s.
Surface casing 😊
Not bad ⚡️
Cool video. You have to drill about 900 to 1000 feet here in the high desert of Arizona to hit water.
yeah I've heard that, and to be fair, I think some parts of the high desert I'm in also require that sort of depth. These things seem to be VERY location-specific. Thanks for commenting!
The “large bit” you refer to is a down-the-hole hammer.
Cool video. Curious, did you install perforated well casing down to 600' as there is no defined aquifer, or only perforated pipe at the lower depths?
Thanks for watching! Still putting together the part 2 video but yeah, the perforated casing only was for the bottom ~100 feet (though I think the actual lowest 20 foot section or two are not perforated). and the rest of it was solid. The PVC well casing is 4" diameter but the hole is I think 6" so even without perforations, the water from higher strata will still be flowing down to the bottom to go through those perfs. That may not work in clay or other type materials, but since this is granite, even with cave-ins and such over time, I'm pretty sure water will still make its way down along the PVC to where there are perfs.
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@@LetsOverthinkThis - - Water recovery time is important. A pump located 10 feet below a water line may not get enough water to pump properly. Just commenting.
@@richardbowers3647 For sure and good point! My pump is sitting about 350 feet below the static water level so there's actually good water storage in the hole and it's nicely submerged. The well itself doesn't have a high production, so it's definitely possible to get that level down to the pump, but that's why the well pump will be feeding a 5000 gallon storage tank on the surface so I can control how much cycling that well pump does.
Things like how you found water in this spot in the desert ? Then the cost ..that would be interesting too. The slush is Drillers Mud. I’ve drilled six wells in Baja California and enjoyed the discovery of water each time. None of the wells were dug using equipment anywhere near as nice and modern as this.
Thanks for watching and yeah, sorry I missed those aspects! I did answer many times in the comments since, but to summarize: Cost was around $60k for what you see here and as for the spot, I bought the land knowing it was likely (but not certain) that water could be found there based on neighbor's wells, etc. I don't believe in dowsing rods (though anyone is free to!) especially at this depth, so we picked the spot that made the most sense for my site plan: most spots on the property would have been more of a pain in the future in terms of trenching and such. The drilling company just bought the rig here after practically running their old rig into the ground over the previous few decades so I, too, was impressed by how clean and new it was :)
Anyways, thanks for the comment!
@Let's Overthink This the rods definitely work but not for locating a well, they do work for finding shallow water, water lines and wires
@@markwilliams4525 no
@@ronandingridjohnson1409 no what?
@@ronandingridjohnson1409 Yes
I hope you used a good dowser with knowledge of water levels on the City wells in Yucca and Stumps to SITE the well.
. What are they charging per foot drilled?
I didn't and I don't believe in it but I know people do and that's all good. 👍 I did use a well driller thats been doing this in this area for several generations.
I think it was somewhere around 68/foot at the time.
@@LetsOverthinkThis The 3 city wells up in Yucca valley are @ 300 feet, as I recall.
That is a great price for all the work needed!).
Interesting video but raises as many questions as it answers. When you drill to 1000 ft or even 2000 ft, it's important to determine the static water level because that's the depth to raise water. Ultimately the total capital cost is drilling, installing the pipe work (casing) and the pump and motor. The operational cost are then the power / fuel cost plus maintenance of pump and motor. Total costs can then determine an hourly cost against the volume pumped ( gal or L/hr), obviously the less lift height- the cheaper the water.
Agreed but I think you may be thinking agriculture-scale water pumping. This is a well for a single family home and the pump easily pumps with about 600 watts to provide around 6gpm from the hole. The static water level is around 190 which honestly isn't bad at all considering...
I’m on my third well. I wish people would be more careful with the water.
Yeah. It's more precious than lots of people have been treating it...
Sabah Al-Nour, I am very happy to work with you. I have the ability to locate valleys and underground lights all over the world
Great video indeed, were can I aquire drilling course or training?
Thanks! I'm not a driller, so hopefully others can chime in. What I have seen is a lot of it being a family business with the nuances and variations taught over hundreds of wells drilled over the years. But that doesn't help anyone looking to get into it.....
excited to see the drilling machine or more in the african continent or in the sahara desert to be exact
Lol, well you won't see either of those here.
Nice video. Too bad you don't have a part 2.
Indeed. Life has gotten in the way. Video half edited and still hoping to get it out!
Finally posted part 2!
Amazing🥰🥰😍😛
You could of try to tap Primary water that is deep in the earth and unlimited under pressure, possibly not as deep as what you drilled for an aquifer. Primary water comes up thru vertical rock fissures that can be drilled into. Been doing it for a100 yrs. Search, Primary water.
Is this the same equipment used for drilling oil rigs.?? Whats the difference.??
Great question and as a non driller I don't know! Hoping somebody will chime in and educate us all!
There not much of a difference besides the smell and being covered in oil it's actually closer to pump work similar to windmills. 💦🛠️👍💯✌️
The bit is only the piece on the end....the thick round section on top of the bit are called collars..they add weight on top of the bit.
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Concrete around the upper casing? Or Bentonite? Granted,, dry desert,, Bentonite may not get enough moisture to retain sanitary seal.
Thanks for the comment! I know bentonite is commonly used but I'm about 90% sure it was concrete in this case since they dropped a whole bunch of bags of concrete on site, used some to seal around the steel, and then used the rest to pour the 6" slab when it was all done. Unfortunately I wasn't there when they did it so that's the missing 10% confidence in my answer ;)
Nice video. I have them drilling on my land in a couple of weeks for a home build. Full price is right, I need to go 600 feet too…
Thanks and good luck to you!
My family was having machine like this 40 years ago
Yep, they've made drilling machines for a long time.
Had to subscribe based on the channel name
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So, was it worth it? Did they it a good flow of water?
See part 2! Worth it for me for sure. Not great production compared to most wells but for the desert and my purposes, just fine! 👍
You should have doused first with a mesquite limb. I tested it with my eyes closed. It really works. Some other water drilling companies said I couldn’t find water there. I did.
Glad you found water 👍
I hope you called 811 before you stared digging! 😆 🤣
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That's pretty cool. How do you know there is water at that exact spot? And can you share what the total budget end up costing?
You actually don't know and you pay either way! 😬 That said, there are nearby wells so it was likely. Some people believe in those rods and such to sense it but I don't and even if I felt like you could sense water at like 50 feet, I don't believe you can hundreds and hundreds of feet through granite.
It's very very expensive to do this and even more-so now with the price of pvc, fuel, and everything being so high. Let's just say it was over $40k.... But it's a little pointless to even give that number since it varies a lot depending on your location, the depth, etc.
Thank you.. very cool video and informative and if nothing else at least we know who can do it in Southern California with good reputation. Awesome
@@coin2456 Glad you enjoyed it! Was super fun to watch the process, and yeah, any time I encounter people who care about the work they do, I'm happy to share that with others. It's increasingly rare it seems....
@@jessesilver once again thank you.. it's something I'm looking
To do soon.. so your video is gold to me.. keep up the good work.. 👍
@@LetsOverthinkThis i cant find part II, 3 whatever but i have to ask you. You did find water at the end ? or not
good deep underground drilling for water # another alternate to get & store water is dam construction or large pool construction to accumulate rain water sufficient for 2-3 years #
Yes although not nearly enough rain here to be useful. But true in lots of other places!
It also not legal in California unfortunately 💦🛠️👍💯
600 ft.!. Wowza
That's what I thought! Yet people have been chiming in with stories of even deeper ones. Guess it's all relative!
In Mendocino Co up north in CA, obviously a lot more rain, but I thought my well at 160ft was deep....is Joshua Tree (area) a place that's being developed for homes now?
@@S_M_360 Joshua Tree park is obviously not being developed but the surrounding cities/towns (Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, 29 Palms, etc) have all experienced a boom of sorts as have many other less metropolitan areas over the past few years. I don't see formal "development" in terms of lots of housing projects etc but yes, more activity here and there.
@@LetsOverthinkThis Interesting! Grew-up in SoCal, used to hit Joshua in the 90s for meteor showers and just that whole area in general. I'm currently looking at Henderson, NV to either build as you are or buy. Taxes reasons. I'll be watching your progress as the building aspect will be of keen interest to me. Keep it up!
@@S_M_360Thanks and good luck to you whatever you choose!
How did you pick the spot to drill ?
Where it made sense for my project and build, etc. Very few options, actually that make sense in terms of not having to pump water up hill a lot or trench needlessly.
ok... so.. I am a geologist over in Arizona.. I have spent years walking around the desert.. I also look at satellite images and I have been for more than 30 years... you will find water along the cracks in the underlying rock... rivers and creeks and dry washes follow fault lines... all of them... that's what creates the topology of the land... they meander.. because the Planet is going round and round so water wants to flow downhill in a straight line, but the motion of the Planet creates curves and it bounces back and forth between the rocks... the water is actually flowing underground.. the sand and dust are porous... and those cracks where dry washes are is where you find water... if you look.. and find a place where the meander runs into a higher point of rock.. a cliff.. even a small one.. the area across the wash on the inside of the curve.. a fairly shallow well will give you water
vegetation is a good indicator for water... I look for saguaro here in the Sonoran desert... you are in the lowest region on Earth... below sea level... in some areas
.. if I was looking... those ankle high bushes are a pretty good indication that you should look somewhere else 😉.. in the Joshua tree areas... that's what I would look for
Except the Joshua trees aren't in any clusters.. they're pretty evenly distributed on my land. Plus you can't drill near them even if they did indicate water ...
Also sorry to say while I agree that the topography might indicate deep water flows, the vegetation around here won't. The water is hundreds of feet deep and the plants all have super super BROAD root networks, not deep ones, because they have to get as much water from the surface as they can.
What did you mean when you said "you are in the lowest region on earth, below sea level"?
What's overall cost for yours well?
Probably 60ish but if you're going to use that as any estimate for your own purposes, don't. This process has an enormous range of costs depending on lots of factors.
Start at $100/ft and go from there. Ballpark figure.
How did you select that spot for drilling the well? Any rhyme or reason?
Lots of reason... Once the site plan was done for the buildings and infrastructure, etc, there was really only one or two places to have the well that wouldn't cause a real pain later with long trenched water runs or having to pump water uphill a lot, etc. But no rhyme or reason in terms of where the water is underground. That far down, through rock, everyone with any experience here said it was basically luck of the draw.
You can have a survey and geologist point out a spot but there also guessing LoL 💦🛠️👍✌️💯
Did you try witching first? Also , how many water tables are in the ground where you are? Can that be determined?
I didn't try witching because I don't believe in it (though many people do!). And I could be more easily convinced that it works for water like 20 or 50 feet underground. I'm not convinced anyone can sense water hundreds of feet down through solid granite. I don't know how many water tables their are since around here you're just hitting water between layers of rock and I knew it was most likely I'd hit it around the same depth my neighbors' wells had.
Thanks for watching!
@@LetsOverthinkThis Good points. I am a land investor and witching works 100% on all my properties' am not sure about the depths. thanks
@@angelofamillionyears4599 Curious is it common to drill and not hit water where you are? My point is, if you're in a place where people often hit water, how do you know witching works? (not trying to be an ass, but genuinely curious)