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HELP!! My 9 month pregnant daughter and her husband are fixing to have a baby and they have bought the land across the street from us, but it took all their money to buy the land and the trailer they will live in. So , unfortunately they do not have a lot and they can not afford to pay the $3,000 they want to put down a well, however We know there is a natural spring right behind their property line.
How can we find out if there is or not and then if there is, how do we go about tapping into it ourselves to run water into the house. If there is not a natural spring , how would we go about testing for a good spot for a well and manually digging it ourselves? My husband said there was a way to test for water by holding some kind of sticks perpendicular to the ground and when the sticks crossed there was water at that given spot. Is that true? and what are these stick things called?
Testing for water with sticks is called dowsing or dousing (not sure the correct spelling, I've seen it both ways), put one of those in Google and I'm sure you'll come up with some links that tell you how it's supposed to work. I have no idea whether it actually works or if it's just one of those old wives tales. I'd also see if you can search Google for more modern/conventional methods of finding where the water is for a well, I have to think there's a more scientific method available. Honestly, I think this is something probably better left to professionals, see if they can get a loan or something for the $3000 to dig a proper well, otherwise I think they'll end up being sorry later.
Yeah Ecrane3 you are right its dousing but there are alot of conditions to fullfil that procedure to a success. Just try google and there are ways to find more about dousing. Its not an easy work. Cheers mate.
