Dewey Wright's company drills the North Carolina peaks.
The mountains of northwest North Carolina and northeast Tennessee are beautiful, but they can be tough on water well drillers. Narrow, winding roads, steep drop-offs and deep wells all present formidable challenges.
In 1996, Dewey Wright Well and Pump Co. of Boone, N.C., finally had enough of the trouble its drill rig was experiencing. “It required a whole lot more maintenance than we liked. We were trying to get away from the maintenance problems we were having,” explains owner Dewey Wright Jr., who has taken over the day-to-day operation from the company's founder and his father, Dewey Sr.