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2015  You do not need to drill down to 1000 of 1500 feet for water.

Eddie A, Spearhead Trail, VC, Ca.  Profiling performed in January 2013.  Around May 2015 started drilling, stopped the driller around 310 feet in depth.  Well yield was 100 gallons per minute (gpm).

We are now 10 years into the drought and at a shallow depth there is 100 gpm.  That’s surprising.  Drilling closer to the heart of the fractured system, yields more water.

** Driller was Stehly Brothers.  We do not recommend this driller anymore.

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Detailed survey produces the best results around 90% of the time.

To whom it may concern.

March 2000

I am a thirty year resident of Valley Center who has been dependent upon well water the whole time. I began farming with two wells and over the years drilled five more as my water usage grew. The first three were located by a dowser friend of mine. However, in the spring of year 2000, my luck ran out when I drilled a 1000 foot essentially dry hole.

At that point I ran into Bob Hutchings, a well known and very knowledgeable grove owner and manager, who suggested I have Tony at WaterLocating.Com survey that site. After meeting with Tony, listening to his presentation and reading the testimonials of other growers that I have personal knowledge of, I was convinced to have Tony do a complete survey of the site in the vicinity of several existing yet small wells.

The results were amazing and made me a believer in Tony's science and technique.

Tony located my aquifer in an area previously rejected by two dowsers. Through his computer profiles he estimated the approximate depth, (3 to 5 hundred feet) and even predicted a 250 gpm result. He was right on! The driller called it a 350 gpm well in his report. We estimated 600 gpm flowing out during the drilling process and later opted to install a 150 gpm pump.

I would never drill another well without first having WaterLocating.Com do a complete survey of the area. The cost of drilling and the value of water makes that a no-brainer.

Thanks Tony for a job well done.

Pete Clay,

Valley Center Grower                                         

This is a hard rock aquifer signature.

Four slices of earth, vertical profiles taken 20 feet apart. It is obvious where Pete drilled. Each vertical increment is 100 feet in depth.

See an example "Profile Model in 3D View" < click me.

The darker area characterizes the hydro-geological zone (the flow zone, where the water is).

tice how the geometry of the hydro-geological zone changes from profile to profile within each parallel profile.

That is because there is no standard within aquifer geometrics.

Around 250 feet away from this profile there is a water witched well drilled to a 1000 foot deep with around 2 GPM and a 300 foot well in the other direction with only a 5 GPM yield.

 

When drilling for a water well you are taking a chance with witchers and non-technical recommendations. 

Your best chance to reduce expense is with a DETAILED WaterLocating.Com  analysis.

The darker area characterizes the hydro-geological zone. High-yield flow zones = High Capacity Water Wells.

WaterLocating.Com quantitative analysis can estimate the water content in 3 graduations when sufficient information can be extracted from your subsurface.

Approximately one to 20 GPM, approximately 20 to 60 GPM, and greater than 60 into the hundreds of GPM 90% of the time.

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 Ralph & Manny, Valley Center, Ca., flower growers, May 1, 2008, 150+ GPM, 680 feet, static level @ 100 feet.  They knew that they had to go deep on this one.  Well drilled on the top of a hill. Drilled, Valley Center area, San Diego County Area, 100 gpm.  Driller was AAA Drilling **

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    Al Campos, Valley Center, first well, 2007 70 GPM, 150 feet, second well April 2008 60 GPM, 400 feet, APdrywall@sbcglobal.net.  A water-witcher selected the third spot to drill for Al Compos that produced only 3 (three), maybe 10 gallons per minute. Driller, San Diego County Area.  Driller was AAA Drilling **

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(1) Detailed survey produces the best results around 90% of the time.

Old well drilled to 600 feet at the well drillers selected location and hit minimal water. Enlisted WaterLocating.Com's services and drilled approximately 250 feet away from the first well and received 70 gallons per minute within.

Jack Button, Cuca Ranch, Ca.      

Driller was Fain Drilling **.  Here are some extra well logs where Fain struck good water on a computer generated target.  Driller, Fain drilling. **

This is the profile of the 70 GPM well drilled at the right, dark area. At the red arrow is a strong water witching (dowsing), spot. Selected in the hard hard rock zone. Drilled to 600 feet with only a 1/2 gallon per minute output.

600 feet at depth @ $10.oo per foot = $6000 expense for 1/2 GPM.

At the computer generated profile, black area, a savings of $3500 is realized. With much more water and less pump expense.

All dowsing and witching targets are in the harder rock formations, the white color, the white zone.

Blue lines represent lateral fractures from aquifer extending into the hard rock volume.

Some water from the main aquifer drips into the fractures within the harder rock formations but most of the water of the aquifer resides in the darker zones. (areas of major fracturing)

To understand water witching (dowsing), See index "Water Witching".

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My side of the road has poor luck with water wells. I was hoping for the minimal amount of water (2GPM), required to commence building my new home. WaterLocating.Com  selected an ungodly site and unbelievable place that no one in their right mind would think there would be water half way up a huge hill. We hit 15 gallons per minute.

Chloe Bostic, Cuca Ranch, Ca.     Driller was Russ Anderson (now Hydro Tech)  **

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5) Detailed survey produces the best results around 90% of the time.

Subject: Testimonial for WaterLocating.Com.

I hired WaterLocating.Com to survey my 18-acre property in Bear Valley for the best site to drill a water well after my neighbor recommended Tony. My neighbor had just gone through the pains of drilling a 1000-ft dry hole at a witcher-selected site. He then had Tony do a survey and they selected a site within 100 yards of the dry hole. This resulted in a WaterLocating.Com selected three possible  well sites on the property. We chose to drill at his second choice site. We hit 75 GPM at 75 ft., 100 GPM at 180 ft. and 150 GPM at 240 ft. We stopped drilling at 300 ft. and have more water than we know what to do with.

I highly recommend WaterLocating.Com if you want good results with a well, and at the same time, save a ton of money by not drilling dry holes.

Robert D. Bagby

Owner, Lost Creek Ranch

Valley Center, Ca.                                                Driller was Stehly Bros. Drilling  ** 

This is the profile of the 150 GPM well drilled on the right side of the profile. Each vertical increment is a quantitative 100 feet in depth. This is a highly fractured area that the driller had problems with.

Profile: White = hard rock. Black = fractured &  porous rock.

Red arrow is a water witching spot, 300 feet away from the computer target.

 

Computer generated targets are the hardest to drill.  The purpose of the computer is to identify the more porous/fractured area within the aquifer where more water would collect.  Detrital zones are like trying to dig a hole in a pile of gravel.

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(6)  Detailed survey produces the best results around 90% of the time.

To whom this may concern.

Drillers do not state a depth in which one will hit water. Many go to the 1000 foot depth.

One prior well of ours was drilled down to 1000 feet with a 5 gallon per minute output.

WaterLocating.Com was referenced to me by a friend who had superb success with the computer technique in imaging subsurface aquifers.

For cost reasons, we did not want to drill down to an unknown depth "without" knowing the potential of GPM. We conferred with WaterLocating.Com, and due to his aquifer depth assessments to 600 feet and analysis of GPM., Radar Water was contracted to perform a thorough survey for aquifer identification on a 5 acre parcel.

At 200 feet, we had 20 plus GPM and drilled down to around 400 feet and ended up with a total of 300 GPM. Of all the water wells we had drilled, this is the best.

We feel extremely comfortable in recommending WaterLocating.Com Geological prior to drilling for one of the best water-well-drilling sites on your property.

Bob Becker

Realtor

Valley Center & North County, San Diego, Ca.     Driller was Stehly Bros. Drilling **

This is the 300 GPM well drilled on the right side of the profile.  

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Radar picked a target that is producing 40 plus GPM for my grove. I am now independent of the water company.

Bob Hutchings, Grove Manager, Valley Center, Ca.             Driller was Aspin Drilling **

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Our drilling target did not produce much, so WaterLocating.Com suggested we hydro fract it due to the fact the well was within the aquifer system. We ended up with 20 gallons per minute.

Jack Mc Alister, Valley Center, Ca.     Driller was Russ Anderson and John Warden  **

 

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Radar picked a target which is producing a little over 100 GPM, from which I am pumping 60 GPM within 150 feet of the surface. This additional well helped me get  the monkey (water company), off my back.

Jess Hutchings                                                                  Driller was RDS **

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(20) Detailed survey produces the best results.

WaterLocating.Com  targeted a drilling site in my 10-acre grove which produced hundreds of gallons per minute. We did not need any more water so we stopped drilling. We are off city water.

Jesse Hutchings, Grove Manger, Valley Center, Ca.         Driller Was RDS Drilling **

Black = fractured strata where water would collect. White = hard rock.

"Haste makes waste". This is what Jesse told me a month prior. I did a detailed survey and selected a preliminary drilling target.

All extracted parameters had an alignment for a high capacity water well.

 

The Red arrow is a water witching spot, 400 feet away from the computer generated target.

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Grove owner is John Classen, Valley Center, Ca.    Driller was Stehly Bros. Drilling **

Red arrow is a water witching spot, 300 feet away from the computer-generated target.  White = hard rock.     400 foot depth predicted.

Turned out to be a good 50 GPM well.

The dark zone identifies the hydro-geological zone where water would flow more freely.  That's where the water flowed.

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WaterLocating.Com located a drilling target at the 400 foot depth. At that depth we hit 54 GPM.

Bob Grandon, Valley Center, Ca.                       Driller was RDS Drilling **

This profile was taken in "Y" configuration.

I like these profiles.

Topographic expression does not guarantee the ability of "Lineaments" to predict high-yield flow zones.  But do afford the parcel owner of having fracturing adjacent to the "Fracture-trace" as seen in this computer Generated Profile.

**   The mentioned driller at each Testimonial is not a recommendation to his services.

It’s to let you know that all drillers have hit numerous successful water wells on computer generated targets.  Do not let the dishonest drillers fool you.