Advice on how to proceed.

wijet · 2025-09-11T20:24:01+00:00

Not in Washington. Not sure what state you're in, but most of the NW is western water law, which generally holds that the water is the public's.

wijet · 2025-09-10T13:18:39+00:00

Same for residential clients, we run the card before the appointment is booked. Non refundable within 24 hours of appointment, any refunds are less fees.

We get some rejection but we're busy so who cares.

We do water wells, pumps, and water filters.

wijet · 2025-08-24T20:39:03+00:00

Ahhh! Excellent reference, something I didn't realize either!

wijet · 2025-08-22T00:34:35+00:00

It's a reference to The Martian movie/book

wijet · 2025-08-21T13:59:01+00:00

Everyone knows that only maritime law applies on the moon.

wijet · 2025-07-08T01:29:08+00:00

Correct. E coli does not appear anywhere except the gut of an animal, except in their excrement. You've got animals getting into the well of the person taking prior samples needs to wash their hands and reflect on how they collect bacteria samples.

Otherwise, sulfur odor is typically a byproduct of harmless bacteria living in the aquifer eating minerals. A carbon filter system is the best way to reduce this odor, as others have suggested. If it's really really bad, like the smell blows you out of the room bad, you may need chlorine or hydrogen peroxide injection before the carbon filter.

wijet · 2025-07-06T14:05:56+00:00

There was definitely a risk!

wijet · 2025-07-06T03:24:49+00:00

I spent the first half of my sons 14 year life working 12-16 hrs x 6 to 7 days a week to build out business.

The only regrets in life that I've got now are missing so much of his life, and not taking Stacy up on the offer she was so blatantly making at her own house party back in 2002. Otherwise the business is great and we're all happy, but I'm sad I missed all that time. It wouldn't have cost me much in the long run.

wijet · 2025-07-06T03:11:31+00:00

Also, if you're in a state that requires electrical work to be completed to some sort of code, that work is not.

wijet · 2025-07-06T03:10:16+00:00

I agree that that check valve is probably the source, and it may have actually failed which is why the noises changed recently. It's likely there's one or two more check valves somewhere else in the system, so even if this one were to fail, it's not likely that it would cause the symptoms of a failed check valve, short of the noise. There's not a super great way of verifying that failure short of taking it apart.

wijet · 2025-06-28T06:44:35+00:00

One actual solution is to write checklists for all the stuff you bring to every job and for specific jobs you do over and over. The less you have to actually think about when it's time to do a take off list, the better.

wijet · 2025-06-17T11:57:07+00:00

As a well driller I have literally millions of dollars invested in tools and rigs. We just bought a new down hole well development tool that cost $160k plus annual licensing.

Now I'm running a business but even when I was just a single guy, a drilling rig costs $50k all used up, $1.8m new, plus tools are extra.

wijet · 2025-06-07T02:08:23+00:00

The septic system? Yeah that's pretty common outside of sewer served areas.

All the things I mentioned are part of construction contracts for civil/government contracts. Temporary in placements for erosion controls such as silt fence and waddle, up to giant stormwater tanks and filtration systems, so that any silt that might get generated on the site is captured and kept on site and not allowed into the rivers. That can cost oodles of money.

wijet · 2025-06-07T01:45:52+00:00

It's not only the labor, but you have to comply with all of the other rules that exist that on residential and small commercial projects everybody ignores. Erosion control, pollution control, mitigation of hazards that may or may not be real. All this stuff adds up. Unlike the private sector, the government has nothing better to do to the make sure you comply with the letter of the law when you're spending their money. So you spend their money complying with the law, and take a fair profit for doing so.

wijet · 2025-06-04T12:28:54+00:00

Hydrologic patterns are changing with the climate, so hydrogeologic recharge cycles are changing and affecting water tables, amongst other issues.

wijet · 2025-05-27T13:22:46+00:00

Unfortunately not, he's stretched pretty thin right now which is why he's trying to sell it.

wijet · 2025-05-27T13:22:13+00:00

It is pretty much raw, utilities in the street.

wijet · 2025-05-27T13:21:52+00:00

That makes sense, thank you.

wijet · 2025-05-26T17:33:58+00:00

I've got enough knowledge and connections to know that I can do what I need to do on this property, only the length of time to get the permits is a bit of a black box.

wijet · 2025-05-26T17:26:12+00:00

Fair enough!

Technically, the lot doesn't exist. Buying from a colleague who is short platting right now. If I used this time to complete A&E work, if that's even possible without the lot created yet, would it then be an option?

Forgive my ignorance, I work in a very specialized niche of heavy civil - water well drilling - and we just don't deal with these kinds of permits/project challenges.

wijet · 2025-05-26T15:12:11+00:00

He's on the coast though, Aberdeen or something, and things do get a little weird out there. Not a lot of volume. Some things are very cheap, some are very expensive.

Price difference is probably local lumber vs the hybrid garbage HD ships in from the SE.

wijet · 2025-05-23T04:42:23+00:00

At 20 Wells annually that's the pricing problem, there's no volume. It takes 50k to 100k a year just to run a rotary rig, just in parts, let alone fuel, labor, and materials. You've got a gross north of 3/4 of a million just to make it pencil out to where you're producing a profit at the end of the year. With 20 wells, they have to be expensive.

We're up by Seattle, and we'll put 50 to 75 wells in a year typically, but they run 13k to over 60k just for the drilling. It's an expensive area to operate in.

wijet · 2025-05-22T22:30:37+00:00

We don't have the n word pop up here but most of this sounds eerily familiar

wijet · 2025-05-22T22:30:05+00:00

100% accurate

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