2019 Spring Home & Garden

2019 SPRING HOME & GARDEN LINCOLN DAILY NEWS MAY 2, 2019 PAGE 29 might cost. Expect that they will be in the ball park, and that there will likely be extra costs that are unseen at the time of the estimate. In the case of drilling a replacement well, there will be added costs to demolish, sanitize, and seal your old well. The drilling company should contact the local county health department and obtain the permit for drilling and determine the proper location for the well. The permit fees will be added to your bill. Most modern domestic wells are drilled (bored wells usually provide greater amounts of water for commercial buildings) through all the upper layers of soil and subsoil, passing through various layers of clay, sand, gravel and perhaps even rock. The well must go deep enough to avoid drawing contaminated surface water and instead tap a source of deep ground water. Video of well drilling machine The drilling machine itself weighs about twenty three tons, and you may need to get special permission to bring it in to your property on paved country roads. This powerful machine is mounted on a truck bed, with a fold up derrick that has hoists, a canister to hold the drilling rods, and a very powerful drilling machine that turns, blows air, and pumps water. The crew may lay down protective mats on your lawn to help protect your turf from damage, but even with the mats Well driller derrick deployed CONTINUED u