Restoring a Dry Well
Two Year Battle
Bryson and Garen have put in much time and effort with their ideas and inventions and it’s finally paying off. Restoring our well water has been a 2 year effort that has come with many challenges and prayers.
Here's Our Story:
Additional Information
What is most interesting to note is in Fall of 2014 we began to use our well again. The water level was 126’, three feet lower than the year before but the recharge rate increased from 24 hours to 30 minutes! To our surprise, it wasn’t about water level but recharge rate.
Permaculture
Adding Hugelkulturs to the berms and basin idea along with wood chips has been a winning combination for us. We plan on adding several more throughout the years in various places on the property.
Here are some resources:
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
How to Drill Your Own Well Website
Zephaniah Phiri, The Water Harvester
And here are some more videos on our well struggle:
Weekly Peek: Drilling Our Own Well using Only Air & Water
Weekly Peek: Drilling Our Own Well using Only Air & Water Continued...
Weekly Peek: Drilling Our Own Well using Homemade Pneumatic Drill
Weekly Peek: Drilling Our Own Well using Homemade Hammer Drill
1500 Video Clips!
I won’t tell you how happy I am to be done with this project! Lots of clips to sift through in search of something of worth. Every day we worked, felt like it would be a breakthrough and we had to get it on film! Who would of guessed it would take us 2 years of trial and error :)
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Shelly
September 18, 2015
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Digging Well Videos
Dig Well Using only Air & Water (Part 1)
Dig Well Using Air/Water (Part 2)
Dig Well with Pneumatic Drill (Part 3)
Dig Well with Hammer Drill (Part 4)
Restoring our Dry Well (Conclusion)
Partners
Resources
www.greenhomebuilding.com/adobe.htm
www.earthbagbuilding.com/articles.htm
www.earthbagplans.wordpress.com
We moved from the city to the country in 2005. Since then, we have been building structures, raising livestock and growing some of our own foods. We are crazy about family, nutrition and want the best for our growing family.
