When Does a Hydrogeologist Become Involved?
Hydrogeologists usually become engaged in residential water prospecting after the health department, the well driller and the dowser have given it their best shot. This is due to the homeowner’s reluctance to pay money and the fact that adequate water can usually be found without professional advice. However, people do call me and by the time I get involved a number of mistakes have been made. More often than not I get called to a job and the first thing I notice is several wells clustered in a hilltop position. This is absolutely the wrong way to prospect for groundwater. Case Study-Residential Well: The graphics represent an example of job where the owner’s two wells “flat” gave out during the drought of 2003. The site was on top of a mountain in the foothills of the Blue Ridge in the northwestern piedmont province of Virginia. Two dowsers recommended that our client drill a replacement well on the highest part of her property (within 35 feet of a dying well). My client thought bette
