Serving the mid-Island
Drilling, pumps, rehabilitation and testing
Cedar, Nanoose Bay, Gabriola Island, Errington and Coombs — bedrock wells, sand-and-gravel wells, and the pumps that make them work.
Four service lines cover the life of a water well: drilling a new one, putting the right pump in it, recovering one that has slowed, and proving what it gives. Under the Groundwater Protection Regulation, drilling and pump installation are both restricted work, carried out by registered well drillers and registered well pump installers.
Which service a property needs is usually settled by evidence rather than symptoms. A well that has slowed, a pump that keeps failing and a lot with no water at all can each end up at a different one of the four, and the cheapest way to find out is almost always to measure before quoting.
All four are reportable events
Drilling a well, altering one, installing a pump and decommissioning a well are all restricted work under the Groundwater Protection Regulation, and the first, second and fourth are reportable. The report goes to the Province within 90 days and becomes part of the public record. That matters more than it sounds: the paperwork is what a buyer, a lender or a rezoning application asks for later, and it is far cheaper to have it created correctly at the time than reconstructed years afterwards from a well nobody documented.
The four service lines
- New Well DrillingNew water wells drilled, sealed and reported — from site assessment and setbacks to the well identification plate and construction report.
- Pump SystemsPump sizing, installation and backflow protection, matched to what a well actually yields rather than to the size of the house.
- Well RehabilitationDeepening, redevelopment and repair for wells that have lost yield, taken on sediment, or stopped keeping up with the household.
- Testing & SurveysDownhole camera surveys, pump testing and yield measurement — the evidence a buyer, a lender or a rezoning application asks for.
Find out what is under the property.
Free site assessments across Electoral Areas A, B, E and F.