Over this past year, California has experienced one of the worst droughts on record with attention focused on the upcoming irrigation season and what effect it will have on reservoirs and groundwater aquifers. Recently, the areas most affected by the drought have received much needed rain and snow, but from all indications, it will fall short of the large quantities of water needed to sustain the 2014 growing season.
Horizontal directional drilling can be a challenge
under ideal conditions, but when you get projects that have a number of
environmental agencies on both the state and federal levels involved, things
can get quite interesting and expensive.
Most everyone in the drilling industry is familiar with forward rotary drilling, but unless you are involved with larger-diameter wells used for irrigation, municipal or industrial applications, you probably are not aware of the advantages and some of the disadvantages of reverse-circulation drilling.
"Over the past few years, ground source heating/cooling
using vertical loop installations has taken over our industry, and has provided
a great new opportunity for many of us in the water well and drilling industry."
