In the middle of September this year, Piglet and I traveled to the southwestern part of Virginia to assist some fellow water well drillers in obtaining their Virginia Master Drillers Licenses.
The drilling company they work for has been in business since 1905. Here’s where the problem started! The Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR) licensed the company as Heavy Highway (H/H) instead of what it should have been, Water Well Pump (WWP). When the DPOR required individual well drillers to be licensed, the DPOR only notified the companies in the WWP category that each driller must have a Master Driller License. At that time, all active water well drillers could be grandfathered in. The DPOR dropped the ball, since the H/H contractors weren’t notified of the grandfathering option.