yes, welcome to pondboss fishinrod and thanks for the kind words. that sinking feeling i know all too well, but i like to maintain that as one door closes, others do open....
you've raised an excellent point. i've heard of hydrofracturing wells but as you might have guessed, our local drillers dont offer that service. of all the drilling i have done, i have never seen the process conducted. most of my drilling work involves design and installation testing and remediation wells.
i am not sure what types of rock may be better suited for the technology if it were available. my property overlies a mid-late jurassic metavolcanic formation (Logtown Ridge Fm) that exhibits a classic weathering rind, shaley and loose from surface to 20 feet or so, then becoming extremely dense and massive the rest of the way down. secondary mineralization accounts for pyritization and silicification, so there are zones that are unbelievebly hard (drilling wise). if you hit it right, the water tends to show up in quartz filled fractures. we found 10 gpm at 180 feet in my other well where abundant quartz came up in the cuttings. this well supplies the house and irrigation, and i will not pay the power co. to use it for my pond.
thanks for providing food for thought, welcome again, start a new thread for yerself and tell us about yer pond
and hey there lakel....come on back, whats up?
