Bringing in Water with an Engineering Service

Only air exceeds water as a necessity to life. Fortunately, air is everywhere and does not need to be discovered and delivered to the user.

Water, on the other hand, is not always so easily located and brought to the user. That is where an experienced professional water engineering firm can play an important part. Engineering firms utilize computer modeling and mapping along with engineers experienced in finding and delivering water to the ultimate user.

In most circumstances, this means bore water delivered from a well. Drilling a bore is an expensive proposition and never carries a 100 percent guarantee of success. The best chances of reaching water in any bore project commonly comes with a scientific approach utilizing the best technology available to forecast the location, depth and quality of water.

The technological approach to finding water commonly has a higher rate of success than the antiquated methods using water divining and other methods based on superstition and ancient beliefs. While they do have some successes, so does the random placement of the boreholes. For a higher rate of success, utilize the services of a qualified water engineering business.

There are some practical considerations in the placement of the bore or water well. In most circumstances, the bore must be placed on property owned or controlled by the user. Surveys of the property also indicate the current and likely future placement of buildings, roads and other utilities that may preclude the placement of the bore. This type of consideration usually produces a number of preferred locations for the bore and is often based on the property owners preferences in consultation with engineers.

Once preferred locations are determined the engineers begin the work of analyzing the locations for the probability of finding underground water. Extensive hydrological data exists for many portions of the country. Utilizing this information, along with geological and geophysical data allows the engineer to produce a Groundwater Report which not only includes the groundwater resources but information on the underground structure of rock and soil. This information is useful in determining the costs of drilling the bore.

The reports developed on the computer in the office need to be verified. This process is known as “ground truth” and matches the physical elements visible on the land with the features reported on the Groundwater Report. Engineers will walk the site for a visual confirmation although other methods including taking soil samples may be included. The more correlations between the on-site assessment and the Groundwater Report the higher the confidence in the accuracy of the report. The final report on the potential bore water project is usually prepared at this point.

The proof of the accuracy of the Groundwater Report comes when the bore is sunk into the ground. Water engineers should also monitor this process. Subsurface soil and rock samples can be analyzed to confirm or repudiate the information contained in the Groundwater Report. If the samples from the bore are not similar to the those anticipated by the report, the bore drilling may be adjusted to another location. The rock samples taken during the drilling process may also give some indications as to the quality of the water. Experienced engineers using state-of-the-art technology and data can improve the odds of success in any bore drilling operation. This gives the property owner the best possibility of success at the lowest costs. While the costs of an engineer may exceed that of someone who does water divining, the increase in the odds of success for the bore water project warrant the participation of a qualified engineering company.