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Drilling a Water Well? Consider Dowsing For Water
Wed 18 Mar 2009 - 13:18
Drilling a Water Well? Consider Dowsing For Water
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Gina_Bisaillon]Gina Bisaillon
Did you know that the art of water dowsing - or divining, or witching - goes back thousands of years, that it's still being used today and that some very serious people wouldn't dream of drilling a water well without first calling the water dowser?
I am not a water dowser trying to convert you: merely a property owner who had had two wells dug in the last twenty years.
First Well
My first experience with water divining goes back to the late 80s, in a small Mexican village where I had bought a tiny farm. Soon after I moved in, the well went dry, and besides, its location - downhill from the septic tank - was undesirable to say the least.
One day, as I drove around the countryside, I spotted a drilling rig, hard at work pounding the soil. I asked Jesus, the well driller, to come and have a look at my place.
He showed up later, accompanied by a member of his crew, who was holding a "Y" shaped stick in his hand. "First we have to see if there's water here", said the man, whom Jesús introduced as Carlos.
Holding a branch of the "Y" in each hand, Carlos walked back and forth on the property. Suddenly, the end of the stick shot down, with his hands following the movement.
"We will dig here", he said. "There's a good vein right here."
"Let me try it!", I said. He gave me one the branches of the "Y", and as we reached the spot, the stick jerked down with amazing force.
To make a long story short, we dug the well there, and found water at 80 meters, which was pretty good for that semi-arid part of Mexico, where it only rains in July and August.
Second Well
Fast-forward to 2008 in New Brunswick, Canada.
I have just purchased a property which has no water supply. All water there comes from private residential water wells.
One of the well drillers that I have contacted has made some very negative comments about the availability of good water in my part of the village. He says they have to go so deep that they might only find salty water. So bad is it that he refuses to drill there.
Then I hear about a well driller who uses old-fashioned "pounding" equiment, which, my informant says, is a far superior way of finding good veins at lesser depths. He suggests that before calling Mr. Mercer, the well driller, I have a certain Michael come over and "switch" for water.
Michael uses plain dowsing rods that he makes by bending wire coat hangers. Holding one in each hand, straight in front of him, he walks back and forth and looks for a vein, then another crossing the first one. Each time he "hits" water, the rods open to the side.
It was interesting to watch, but even more fun to try it for myself. And I can attest to the fact that the rods opened up when I reached the spot Michael had indicated! Not only that, as I stood there talking to him, one of the rods took off and hit me on the arm. And I swear that I had nothing to do with this.
We marked the best spot with bricks and sticks, and when Mr. Mercer drilled there he found good, clean and abundant water at a mere 70 feet.
Would he have found that vein had he drilled elsewhere? I will never know.
What I do know is if I ever have to drill another well, I'm not taking any chances. I'm calling the water diviner.
About Dowsing
If you'd like to learn about the history of dowsing, dowsing tools and how to use them, etc., there's plenty of information available on the Web.
A good place to start would be the dowsers' associations. There's one in most countries and they all have websites: in the U.S., it's the American Society of Dowsers; in Canada, the Canadian Society of Dowsers; in Britain, the British Society of Dowsers - to name a few.
Gina Bisaillon has been passionate about houses since she acquired her first property in the early 1970s. Since then she has owned and renovated houses in Quebec, Ontario, Mexico, and New Brunswick, where she is presently retrofitting a 1950s house to make it highly energy efficient
She is documenting this project step-by-step and dollar-by-dollar on her website, http://www.my-green-home-project.com
Her most recent water dowsing and well drilling adventure can be found at http://www.my-green-home-project.com/drilling-a-water-well.html
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