Water well dowserpast water well drillergeologist

Water well dowserpast water well drillergeologist

Water well dowser water well diviner past water well driller 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. 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 a pegmatite ( coarse grained granite) and aplite (fine grained granite) are two types of recrystallized 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 electromagnetism gravity electrical resistivity sound waves (seismics) 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 personally drilled and cased more than a 1000 water wells mostly in granites but also in lava dolomite and chert shale amphibolites and schists sandstone and quartzite norite 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 that you 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 rain water 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 water 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 occuring 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 on finding your well water and as a water well driller who successfully doused by stick 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. 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 of practice in locating underground water. Call or text me. Chris Landau 530 923 6485 cell 831 290 0098 cell 831 204 3912 home