Costa, president of Comac Pump & Well LLC, Kingston, N.H., explains: “A new home was being built, and the owner had his own excavating equipment, so he prepped the drilling site - to the best of his ability. He thought it was ready to go, but it left a bit to be desired. I told him that it was doable; it's not how we like to see it, but we knew we could do it. So we pulled in with the drill rig. There was quite a bit of extra time involved. We had to jack up the front of the rig as well as in back. We literally were backed into a wall of earth 10 feet to 12 feet high. Also, the well required us to mud the hole, and with no room behind the rig, we needed to make room on one of the sides for us to dig pits.”
The 6-inch diameter well went down 505 feet. “We hydrofractured it, after which the well produced 12 gallons per minute,” Costa explains. “Then we installed a 1-HP submersible pump.”