you could drill your water well with a variety of methods, but it would be wise to spec the job and bid it out. if you are doing this just for the mud, you might find it cheaper to drill the well w/ one method and obtain the mud from a supplier (like george mentioned)...the amount of mud you would get from drilling is totally dependant on the depth and diameter of hole you ultimately drill....hard to say....what depths are the aquifers?
Thanks, Dave. We're not drilling just for the mud...we need the water well as it is. We have a driller coming in.
We were just hoping to get some good dirt out of it without having to have more brought in. We figured that the forage ponds will need to be sealed and we might have the right kind of clay with the drilling. It seems that was wishful thinking.
Worst case scenario: we'll have the well drilled anyway and find another way to seal the ponds. I'm not sure how deep the other water wells are in our area. I'm guessing ~200 feet to decent water. Don't know how many gpm we'll get. The Carrizo aquifer would be the most ideal, but a turn-key well to the Carrizo would be $100k. No thanks.
