water bore holes

[D.M.Taylor Firewood Supp]

were in a dilema at the minute on our farm.we've been on a free water supply for the last 45years problem being this is coming to end & theres no way of keeping/taking over the supply.

So got two options mains water at a estimated cost of upto £50.000 or should we be looking at putting in a bore hole.

Do anybody on here know anything about bore holes??

Many thanks in advance.

[nepia]

I can put you in touch with a small dairy farm in Devon that's had one for years...

[Chris Sheppard]

Don't know anything about boreholes really but I know a mate of mine had one done for a place he'd bought in the last year or so and it was loads less than £50K to do, so on a cost view it looks much more appealing.

[Lyncombe-climber]

:thumbup:We have 2 !! There good as long as if you have hills you over compensate on pump power

[NI Tree]

it not the cost but will you hit water let-alone enough water that wont dry up in a dry year, and don't skimp on the depth of the pipe under ground from your bore.

 

ps eggsarascal is your man for pumps on here

Edited March 8, 2013 by NI Tree

[oslac]

You will need to establish if there is water present and at what depth. The deeper the water, the more expensive the borehole.

 

Contact Baker Associates Hydro Solutions who are very good and friendly and will talk you through everything. They will carry out the hydological assessment for you. They will also put you in touch with the company who will set up the water pipe/storage/filter etc.

 

You can have a system which pulls out water from the borehole, filters it, stores it and releases it to your house under pressure.

 

I think you can take out 5 metre cube or more a day.

Hope this helps

[eggsarascal]

were in a dilema at the minute on our farm.we've been on a free water supply for the last 45years problem being this is coming to end & theres no way of keeping/taking over the supply.

So got two options mains water at a estimated cost of upto £50.000 or should we be looking at putting in a bore hole.

Do anybody on here know anything about bore holes??

Many thanks in advance.

 

If you send me a pm with your address i will put you an info pack together and send it to you.

Edited March 8, 2013 by eggsarascal

[scraggs]

 

I think you can take out 5 metre cube or more a day.

Hope this helps

 

It's 20 cubic metres a day without a licence, you are also allowed to store that 20 cubic metres once extracted over any period of time and use it for irrigation purposes.

Bores can be a bit of a pain though, we had one on one farm that was 100mtrs deep and had become brackish, it was going to cost nearly £20k to put in a reverse osmosis system to make it useable again, would have been cheaper to sink a new bore at a different depth however there was no gaurantee that that would be any different

[renewablejohn]

Can you not tap a supply off a stream rather than a borehole. Where on a stream fed by a spring.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Can you not tap a supply off a stream rather than a borehole. Where on a stream fed by a spring.

 

 

thats another minefield altogether