As the groundwater industry is well aware, millions of households across the country get their water from private wells, which in many cases are not covered by the same regulations as public water resources.
About 13 years ago, Matthew Muffley left his career of 15 years as a diesel technician and joined Jake Kocher’s Water Pumps & Tanks to work as what he calls “a jack of all trades,” and sums up as a well driller.
For years Better Water Industries Inc. has been treating methane with the Sentry I Open-Air System for Gas Reduction and has gained the state of Wisconsin’s approval.
Daniel Ortuño pulled a small piece of Texas history from a shelf in a building at the University of Texas at Austin. The yellowing piece of paper said that on Dec. 19, 1951, John L. Boyd began drilling a 1,350-foot-deep oil well through 17 layers of shale and limestone in Crockett County in southwest Texas.