whats the chance for me to find Water in my back yard in the Santa Monica Mountain area, California?

@@myricegirl I am not familiar with the geology in California I am in the eastern mountains of WV. So I can't with certainty say without seeing it. The one thing I do know your area is suffering extreme drought and has had a huge effect on water tables across the state. That said it should be possible if you have the financial ability to find deeper aquifers. I would definitely go the route of hiring a Company that does underground sonar that can detect deep water before drilling. Deep drilling is costly and you don't want to take risk not having at least some idea what is there before you spend that much. If any water is there ground sonar/radar can find it with pretty good accuracy.

any such Sonar can be found ie Etsy etc? I just asked a friend in Sunland who actually drilled a well, he has plenty of water, and he told me even the dry riverbed out front of his property has a torrent of underground river just 32 ft beneath, thats encourageing .

@@myricegirl yeah but one must be careful surface water often must be treated to be potable. Water passing through a river bed of gravel is still surface water and has contamination. To get potable clean water in most cases comes from below bedrock level. To get to it a well is drilled with casing ran to point below any surface water and grouted to seal well then drilled down to a clean aquifer or water sand. Of course surface water can be used with a approved treatment system.

Your post is loaded with bad info, especially the magic dousing horseshit.

Where I live in Australia all wells and bores drilled for a hundred years are logged so you can access this info a great service free

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Exactly- I am a female but my grand daddy showed me when I was just a little girl back in the 80s ; I just showed my old man who was in the military 17 years and been all around the world but was clueless to it- I felt smart for a min, it was cool that my little simply southern self knew something useful to share

Maybe he is a white Mexican? 😎

Can you tell me any more? Very interested.

@@NobodyCaresALot yes, he had two wire coat hangers that he had unbent to a right angle Then he held one in each hand pointed down He started walking towards growth After a few minutes the hangers (pointed downwards)crossed , in fact they absolutely crossed each other That is where he hired a driller to drill They did hit water .I do not remember how deep.i am guessing 20 feet, The pressure was good but water very salty and unusable The neighbor, about a mile away, directly south of us came running over because his pressure had dropped considerably and he was very unhappy We did not use the well anyway because of the saltiness But seeing the two hangers swing quickly and cross each other was amazing to me. Anyway my husband hauled water until.he had a stroke After that, very unfortunately, I sold the property and moved to the city two hours away Now, thirty years later. A mine was found north of town water was piped from town through our former property (which was south of town) my daughter looked up the property on google and owners south of the property are selling their properties at one hundred thousand dollars an acre Each parcel could be divided upto three ways, including your own, so evidently the parcels had been divided many many times I would have had to sell it shortly after water was brought in because the real estate taxes were already getting steep, but we would have certainly sold it for more money

@@diankreczmer6595 what a great comment! Thanks a lot. I'm sorry to hear about your husband. Probably wise to move but definitely one of those crazy situations.

Same here I have a 20ft well they hit sand at 11ft I paid to have it out it next ones I'll do myself.

shovels and buckets

Ya, nobody talks about that stuff anymore because it’s supposedly not safe water. But a gazillion years of peoples have done dug wells cuz the extraterrestrial friends of the Egyptians didn’t come back

Christine Conroy .... There Are Whole Towns That Get Their Water From Natural Springs... There Is A Proper Way To Do It... You Just Have To Find Someone Who Knows How.

any luck yet?

@@jksmountaindream Haven't been able to get up there for good yet, caring for my mother. Perhaps will start something this year.

@@valeriemckay7064 I understand... we moved my Mother last year closer to a care center and she passed away in December. The cabin build had been put on hold from that and some health issues with me.

@@jksmountaindream Best of luck to you and good health.

@@valeriemckay7064 thank you

Felicia- You may be able to use a spring collection system and spring box . Please check these out @ PracticalPreppers.com. I also have many spring videos on my playlists.

Have you ever tried it? It works!

Fracking is below the water table and should not cause any problems. They back fill it with sand and water when done. They could backfill it with seawater but cost to transport it is high due to fuel cost today.

we need clay based water system

Never heard of such a thing anywhere in the states.

Many states/counties require a well permit. Check with your local building permit office, they will tell you if you do or not need a well permit. If you live in an area that requires a permit and they find out you drilled a well without one, they could make you retroactively permit it (if they are nice about it) or make you abandon and seal it (and you could further be subject to additional penalties and/or fines).

I believe you need many permits in some places. In Oregon, you can't start anything until you get a permit and a septic installed on rural land. With I knew before buying it! Lol..

Dagobert1234 The State of Washington requires a drilling and use permit....You see the State claims they own all water and mineral right and they :Allow" you to pump 5,000 gal a day for residential use..