WELL...let's get that water!

You might be lucky and buy a piece of mountain property that has a bold creek or stream or spring on it and water would be the least of your problems. Unfortunately, most mountain land does not have those above surface water features. Don't fret, you still can get water but it takes some drilling to find it.

Your only option would be to hire a well driller to find water for you. Sounds simple enough but like most things, it might or might not be as easy at it sounds. You see, there's a lot of water beneath the surface of the earth. In the water cycle, when precipitation falls on the earth's land, some of the water flows on the surface forming streams, creeks, and rivers. The remaining water, through infiltration, penetrates the soil traveling underground, hydrating the vadose zone soil, recharging aquifers, with the excess flowing in the subsurface runoff. It's the aquifers that hold the water that supplies your new well. (Forgive me for the heady scientific verbiage)

We get a lot of questions about cost, average depth, and time involved in well drilling. The experts tell us a well depth can run anywhere from 100' to over 800'. It all depends upon where a reliable source of water is discovered on your property. An average cost for drilling is $14 a foot as of this writing. The casing in the well can cost $13.50 per foot for galvanized or $5.00 a foot for PVC (plastic pipe). Well drilling can take as little as a week to several weeks depending upon the depth, weather, and soil conditions.

Your decision to build on your mountain property does come with a number of expenses of which well drilling is one. Needless to say, we're here to provide several well drilling companies to help you with your water needs.