I locate potential underground water in difficult hard rock terrain, or in easy valleys of alluvial plains.
I am a water well dowser/ water well diviner/ past water well driller, field mapping geologist and mudlogging geologist on 2 mile plus deep oil and gas wells in California's Central Valley.
Let me use my skills to locate the best position for you to drill your water well.
How dowsing or divining works and my 40-year history with it can be found on a seven-page pdf on Beachdowsing101.
com
People in Oregon and South Africa have written letters of thanks which can also be found on this website.
View a video log of a water well that I located in Swisshome Oregon producing at least 100 gallons per minute.
We have now installed a 7.
5 horsepower pump and can only draw the water down to 47 feet below the surface.
Water fractures are clearly visible in Tyee Siltstone between 60 and 103 feet in depth.
No water-producing fractures in the formations extend beyond 103 feet even though we drilled to 200 feet.
In planning your well location strategy, drill 2 wells that are less than 200 feet instead of one well of 400 feet.
You double your chance of success.
Although this well in Swisshome is the highest-producing water well in the area, according to the ORWD, I had no idea whether I would get any water at all before we drilled.
You do not locate water by magnetic field dowsing by this method, only changes in magnetic fields, which potentially mean faults that could mean water.
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I have located thousands of wells for clients starting in 1982 using Schlumberger's electrical resistivity surveying method, geological field mapping, and water dowsing by magnetically enhanced L rods.
Dowsing for me (I do not claim to know how it works for others) works by locating changes in the Earth's magnetic field, often associated with fault lines and intrusive igneous features like dykes/dikes.
One may also use a magnetometer to locate these features.
It is because a fault zone is often, not always, associated with a porous zone, that may be permeable to water, that one can successfully find well water within fault zones and alongside an intrusive diabase or dolerite dike, in the fractured country rock.
As an example, pegmatite (coarse crystalline granite) and aplite (fine crystalline granite) are two types of recrystallized rock in fault zones in granite, chemically and mineralogically identical to granite, but with slower and coarser cooling rates to give larger and finer crystals of feldspar, quartz and mica.
These different fault zones sometimes create more porous zones, and the minerals and small amounts of iron within the fault or dyke align in the direction of that dike or fault to create a magnetic field that the dowser or magnetometer picks up.
This is the feature that I find when dowsing.
Because it is fractured and likely porous, you are more likely in weathered rock to find water there, rather than in the massive unaltered, unweathered country-rock nearby.
There is no guarantee that one will find water in these features by dowsing, electromagnetics, gravity, electrical resistivity, sound waves (seismic) induced polarization, or any other geophysical means.
Just as when one drills for oil or gas, there is no guarantee of quantity or quality, or whether you get any at all.
Some areas have more than other areas.
I have personally drilled and cased more than 1000 water wells, mostly in granites, but also in lava, dolomite and chert, shale, amphibolites and schists, sandstone and quartzite, norites, gabbro, and syenite.
Every formation can contain water.
It just depends on the weathering or decomposition, fracturing, porosity, and permeability of those formations.
I recommend that once you obtain your well water, you should have it age-dated to determine how old it is (when the water vapor molecules were last bombarded by cosmic and gamma-rays in our upper atmosphere).
That bombardment by the sun's rays started the radioactive decay in the hydrogen, oxygen, dissolved carbon dioxide, or any other element the labs use for age dating).
Those water molecules have since fallen to Earth in the form of rain.
That rainwater made its way underground and may have been
collecting in underground porous sponge zones for hundreds, thousands or even millions of years.
So very ancient water in a drought can be a blessing, being uncorrelated to the present drought or rainfall, but may also be limited in quantity or it may be an enormous untapped reserve.
The age of recent or ancient water does not guarantee its purity.
Ancient water may be free of man-made pollutants but high in arsenic or other toxic naturally occurring chemicals.
For your own peace of mind, have your well water tested once per year.
Fresh clean water today may become naturally or artificially polluted later on.
Aquifers are often linked so old water may become younger as the old water is pumped out, or it may become older too as the young new water disappears as our rain decreases.
Best of luck with finding your own well water.
And as a water well driller, who successfully doused by stick, a bottle of water and brick held in his hands, many years ago said to me, "Water is like love.
It is where you find it.
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I will use my aerial photography (Google Earth today), plant and tree lineament patterns, on-the-ground geological mapping and interpretation, and present-day geological maps, as well as dowsing to locate the best position for you.
I do not guarantee water.
I do the best I can.
Beware of the driller, dowser or geologist who states they have never located a dry well.
As a water well driller, I drilled many of their dry wells.
The more practice you have, in any field, the better you get and I have had a great deal in locating underground water.
Call, email, or text me.
More information about myself can be found at Beachdowsing101.
com
Thank you
Chris Landau
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