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I do some work for a property manager. One of her properties is wanting a sprinkler well. They currently use metered water for irrigation and the water bills are becoming too much for them. The property manager said that she asked some other company about a well and they told her that the water table was in excess of 100 feet and that it was too deep to drill a well. Is this true? I know nothing about well drilling, so I need some help on this one.
Also, if a well is not possible, are there any other options to keep water costs down yet have an adequate irrigation system? Thanks!
 
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A lot of wells are washed down in Florida to a shallow water table.

At 100 feet, you would actually need a real drilling rig, and cast iron well piping etc. In other words, a real well like the rest of the country uses.

100' is common out here for a well. We are solid rock after about 10'. I believe its around $15 foot.
 
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Dirty Water said:
A lot of wells are washed down in Florida to a shallow water table.

At 100 feet, you would actually need a real drilling rig, and cast iron well piping etc. In other words, a real well like the rest of the country uses.

100' is common out here for a well. We are solid rock after about 10'. I believe its around $15 foot.
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It's common here also to hit 100', round here they will charge a base price for the first 100' then a per ft. price from there, you or her need to contact a well company and get an idea of what kind of depth they need to go in that area, any good well driller that's in the area can give you a real good guestimate at the water depth.
 
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Sure glad nobody in SW Kansas or down in Western OK never told them you couldn't get water from +100'. Our wells here in NE KS run as shallow as 75' to 200'. Avg around here for "sweet" water is about 160. Down in SW Kansas, 200' is a shallow well.
 
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Is this property close to the beach or the water? The freshwater gets deeper as you near the coast, most wells about 2 miles inland or so can be 10 - 30 feet and have plenty of water for a shallow well. A deep well around here is going to be 100 - 300 feet and you will need a company with a real drilling rig to come out and shoot it down. We have limestone for quite a ways so it takes time. A church I cut at had a deep well installed a few years back went down about 300 feet IIRC and 200 of that was through limestone. Cost 3k I believe.
 
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FIMCO-MEISTER said:
I live in the land of no wells. BUT since the water table everybody is drilling into extends way beyond your property line and is a limited resource I think you should pay some fee for it.
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As I was reading this thread I was thinking the same thing...Water is to expensive from the purveyor so dig a well and it's FREE!! Seems like there should be some type of regulation and enforcement on this. (Boy do I sound like a pro gov regulation type...I really am not, I just worry about water as a limited resource) :nono:
 
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You do need to balance the cost of digging a well vs what you are going to save against using municipal water. While the shallow ones are usually obvious - it gets tricky when the digging gets difficult or when it's really deep. On a recent lot about 1/4 mile from a river, the local well guy indicated that to hit water would take a well about 600ft deep. It starts to get tricky then. . .
 
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Keen said:
As I was reading this thread I was thinking the same thing...Water is to expensive from the purveyor so dig a well and it's FREE!! Seems like there should be some type of regulation and enforcement on this. (Boy do I sound like a pro gov regulation type...I really am not, I just worry about water as a limited resource) :nono:
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Hurrah:clapping: All it takes is two to start a movement (not bowel) Everybody is ignoring us so we will shout it from the mountaintops.
NO MORE FREE WATER
 
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