The Well Is In !

[Butch Bridges]

After giving up on trying to break through rock that first attempt using that little air drill, I hired local water well driller, Harold Newman, to use his rotary drill to drill a well. We started at 8am Friday July 25, 2008 and by 10am we were there. We drilled through the first sand/water zone at 80 ft. But Harold said that is not where we need to be, so he kept drilling and hit the second layer of sand and water at 140 feet. He drilled on down to 185 ft and said that's where we need to be. Its a good well, putting out 15 or 16 gallons a minute. The water never drops below 40 to 45 feet from the surface. So I feel good about it, and glad we finally have a water well now on our property. Especially since this week SOWC water corporation announced water rationing because of the drought conditions. You can go to Harold Newman's website and at the bottom of the webpage find 9 pictures in the photo gallery that was taken at our place here south of Lone Grove.

www.NewmanWaterWells.com

[Butch Bridges]

After Harold Newman completed drilling the well to a depth of 185 feet and placing 4 1/2 inch PVC pipe (not 4 inch) down the hole, he finished it up by dropping pea gravel down the outside of the PVC. The pea gravel is small, about 3/8 inch, and can only be found in one place in Oklahoma according to Harold, near Asher Oklahoma, and its expensive too. Here is a picture I took of a small pile pf pea gravel he left one the ground near the well...........

www.oklahomahistory.net/ttphotos8a/PeaGravel.jpg

Does anyone know where near Asher, Oklahoma this pea gravel can be found?