There is an end to drilling for now ...
Drilling big holes into the ground requires lots of water for cooling the drills. The company simply connected their hose to our outside water faucet, opened it full blast, and started cooling.
After a few hours, they rang the bell at the door to tell my wife that there was no more water coming.
They didn't know that we are not on a city water line. We have our own wells with gravity feed (two of them) that deliver the water into a 500 gallon water tank burried behind the house. We then have a (linear) electric pump that repressurizes the pipes in the house, as soon as water is being used, by replenishing the water from the storage tank.
By opening the faucet full blast, they quickly emptied the storage tank, as they were consuming water faster than the well was able to resupply ... end of drilling!
Now, they'll have to find the nearest water hydrant (about 250 yards away), get a permission from the community to connect their hose to the water hydrant with a counter that measures how much water they consume, and only then will they be able to continue drilling.
This brings up the question: how is the water pressure in the city line maintained? I actually don't know the answer to that question. There surely aren't any water towers around here, i.e., the city line must be connected to much bigger pumps that repressurize the city line in similar ways as my small pump repressurizes the pipes inside my house.
How are these pumps operated? Are these electric pumps as well? Do they possible run on ... fossil fuels?
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