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According to the American Ground Water Trust there are over 15 million homes in America with their own water well. Over half of America’s drinking water is from municipal and private wells.
Wells are specially engineered holes in the ground with the purpose of extracting ground water from an aquifer. Properly engineered wells consist of heavy-walled casing, drive shoe, and grouting to prevent any contamination from the surface. When bedrock is encountered, the driller continues to drill, looking for cracks and fractures in the bedrock where water flows. In the drilling process, if gravel is encountered, screens are set in the formation and the well is developed.
To learn more about wells and to receive a free estimate, please contact us at (845) 225-3196. We look forward to serving you and providing you with one of our most precious resources - ground water.
Our services include, but are not limited to the following:
- Rotary Drilling
- Cable Tool Drilling
- Well Rehabilitation
- Hydro Fracturing
- Surging
- Repaired & Deepened
- Pump & Yield Testing
- Test Borings
- Hydrogeological Consulting
- Monitoring Wells
- Gravel Wells
- Irrigation Wells
- Construction Drilling
- Geothermal Wells
- Well Abandonment
- Free Estimates
- Yield Testing
- Water Quality Testing
- Information Center
- Water Systems
Geothermal Wells
What is Geothermal?
In the simplest of terms it operates very much like a refrigerator. When you open the refrigerator door to get your milk there is cold air inside. If you are standing at the refrigerator with bare feet you can feel the warm air on your feet. The refrigerator separates the cool and hot air. In the simplest terms geothermal systems just separate temperature from the ground to provide heating or cooling. Geothermal means relating to the heat of the earth. These systems are highly efficient and use a small amount of energy to move a large amount of free energy. It provides you will the greatest opportunity to reduce energy cost. The energy is free, clean, environmentally friendly and renewable.
In the heating mode fluid is circulated through the pipes where heat energy is transferred from the ground to the fluid. Then the heat is transferred to the geothermal unit in the home. Heat is transferred in the home through duct system or a radiant heat system. Heating efficiencies 50 to 70% higher than other systems
In the cooling or air conditioning mode the system is reversed. Heat is removed from the home and transferred to the loop fluid. As the fluid travels through the loop, the earth cools it. The earth serves as a place to deposit the heat. Cooling efficiencies 20 to 40% higher than available air conditioners.
Closed Loop Systems
Drilling required for the closed loop system. The wells spaced a minimum of 15 feet apart. After the boreholes are drilled double pipe with u-bend is installed in each hole, typically made of High Density Polyethylene Tubing (HDPE). Hole is grouted to provide good conductivity and to seal the hole. Vertical pipes are connected to a header system and run horizontally into the building. Closed loop systems are more costly installation though they have little to no maintenance and provide a more thermally stable environment.
Open Loop & Standing Column Systems
Drilling required for both the open and standing column system though there is less drilling because you are looking at only one to two boreholes. These systems are less costly to install, but can require maintenance and a pumping system. A place for discharge or “Bleed” must be available, example 2nd well, pond, sewer, etc. Water quality is important. More pumping power is required.
Geothermal Benefits
- Lower operating cost
- Lower Life Cycle Cost: installation cost recouped in energy savings and longer system life with less maintenance.
- Enhanced Comfort: eliminating hot and cold spots
- Safe
- Clean
- Quiet
- Reliable
- Environmentally Friendly
- Flexible: installations from Canada to Texas
Geothermal Factoids
- The first recorded geothermal system was a 1912 Swiss patent.
- The ground absorbs 47% of the sun’s energy that reaches planet Earth. This amount of energy represents 500 times more than mankind needs every year.
- About half a million geothermal systems have been installed since 1980.
- Installing a geothermal system in a typical home is equal, in greenhouse gas reduction, to planting an acre of trees or taking two cars off the road.
- Current geothermal installations save more than 14 million barrels of crude oil per year.
- If one in 12 California homes installed a geothermal system, the energy saved would equal the output of nine new power plants.
