| How
Long Have you Been in Business? |
| How
Long Will Hydro-Fracturing Last? |
| Do
you use a Single Packer or Double Packer System? |
| What
Area Do You Service? |
| Can
the Process Cause Me to Lose the Water I Have Now? |
| Can
This Be Done If I Have a Hand Dug Well? |
| My
Well is Drilled Into Sand, Gravel and Clay. Can This Process Help? |
| How
Long Does the Process Take? |
| Why
Do You Chlorinate the Well? |
| What
Kind of Water Do You Use? |
| How
Long Do You Wait For the Post-Frac Pump Test? |
| How
Much Can I Expect My Well to Improve? |
| How
Do You Determine if My Well is a Good Candidate for Hydro-fracturing? |
| Why
Shouldn't I just Drill Deeper? |
| Why
Shouldn't I Drill Another Well? |
| Do
You Dynamite Wells? |
| When
or How Do We Pay For This? |
| How
Long Have you Been in Business? |
| The family-owned business was established as Bartholomew
Drilling in 1954. We added Northwest Hydro-Fracturing in 1986 to
service our customers with low-producing wells. The companies were purchased by Northwest Water Wells Inc in 2016. |
| How
Long Will Hydro-Fracturing Last? |
With no adverse natural effects such as earthquake,
cave-in, flood, etc., the life expectancy of hydro-fracturing would
be the same as the life of a standard well. |
| Do
you use a Single Packer or Double Packer System? |
We use the double packer method. When you use only
one packer, you have approximately a 60% chance of increase compared
to a 96% chance of increase with a double packer. |
| What
Area Do You Service? |
| Washington and Idaho. |
| Can the Process
Cause Me to Lose the Water I Have Now? |
| No. To our knowledge this has never happened to any
well that we have fractured. |
| Can
This Be Done If I Have a Hand Dug Well? |
| No. |
| My
Well is Drilled Into Sand, Gravel and Clay. Can This Process Help? |
| No. The process
is only for wells drilled into some kind of rock formation such as
quartz, granite, shale, basalt, sandstone, etc. |
| How Long
Does the Process Take? |
| In most cases fracturing can
be completed in one day. |
| Why Do You
Chlorinate the Well? |
| Because we have the well open
and are putting equipment into it. It is exposed to possible bacterial
contamination just as if you were pulling and replacing the pump.
We chlorinate as a precaution. |
| What Kind
of Water Do You Use? |
| Only potable water. |
| How Long
Do You Wait For the Post-Frac Pump Test? |
| Usually a week to 10 days or immediately if the amount
of water used in the process can be pumped out and the recovery measured
thereafter. |
| How
Much Can I Expect My Well to Improve? |
| There is no specific amount regarding exact increase,
however, our overall average increase is 574%. |
| How Do You Determine
if My Well is a Good Candidate for Hydro-fracturing? |
| You need to provide us with a well report or drilling
log on the well and legal description of the property that the well
is located on. We compile available facts and data along with our
professional opinion of what can be done to rehabilitate the well
in question. This allows you to make as intelligent a decision as
possible regarding what course of action to take with your well. We
also use a down-the-hole camera to video each well before we actually
do the hydro-fracturing. |
| Why Shouldn't
I just Drill Deeper? |
| Because in many cases the deeper you drill the tighter
the rock formation becomes with less natural water bearing fractures. |
| Why Shouldn't
I Drill Another Well? |
| Chances are that you would simply end up with two wells
that do not have enough output to meet your needs. Keep in mind you
are just drilling another hole into a low yield formation with little
chance of success. Remember, when you drill you are relying on one
hole - with the hydro-fracturing process you are essentially creating
many holes horizontally interconnecting in the water table. |
| Do You Dynamite
Wells? |
| No. The success rate is about 50% and even then the
amount of increase is limited. Cave in usually occurs as a result
and a drill rig would need to be brought in to clean the well out. |
| When or How
Do We Pay For This? |
| We ask for a down payment of 50% of the estimated cost
to be in our office before scheduling. The balance will be due at
the job site on completion of hydro-fracturing. |
| |
To determine if hydro-fracturing
is right for
your well, contact us today!
PO Box 226 · Clayton, WA 99110
509-466-5078 · 800-368-0998
Email:
djminden@msn.com |
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