Most Fire Departments will not do that anymore. The equipment cost, wear tear and puts firefighters and equipment out of service also..

@@howardtravels The water will also quite green, if they're bringing city water, and needs lots of shock and filtering before it gets nice and clear. You can add lots of potassium permanganate and backflush the sand filter often to help clear things up.

A fire truck might have 1500 gallons, a tanker truck can bring more depending on how many axles etc, but an average 20x40' pool with one deep end holds 20,000 gallons. That's a lot of trips with water. Even a 5 axle semi truck with a day cab could maybe bring 8000 per load, without going over 80,000 gross weight limit. The tankers can deliver 9000 gallons of gasoline, but water is heavier.

That's Awesome!

It's a 250k setup that we use a dozen times a year. Hard to justify that cost wise. But for me, as a driller, it's a tool that necessary for 1 in 50 wells. It saves the day & cheaper than 2-3 other wells. Most commercial Fracking companies will travel 5-8 hours but charge alot more . With a 97% success rate and you having 2 wells, id research Fracking companies that offer traveling from far away. May cost you 10k, but worth it in the end.

If your well has rock crevises that tight , you could probably frack it with a pressure washer pump. Just need a way to seal the casing in an area that is securely grouted in a way you can pump through , and in a way that will contain the pressure. Im pretty sure he doesn't have a low enough gear to even begin to track your wells.

I guess that's the same thing on a different scale.

We use a camera to inspect the bore hole. Need to find a smooth area. Also we look for possible veins to frack (above & below) the more we know about the wells construction, the safer we can be while Fracking

Not too much? I'm on city water at my house (even though out in the county, there's some exteneded lines). The monthly bill is usually 3000 gallons. Once a year maybe 4000 if washing a lot of stuff like bedding. That's 2 people on average 100 gallons a day. I did have one bill that was 9000 gallons a few years ago, that was from one toilet flapper valve that had a slow leak. A 'normal' house shouldn't need 30,000 gallons a month unless you're doing a lot of irrigation, or have farm animals etc. That can easily consume 10x what just the inside house stuff uses. Just one horse on a warm day can need a minimum of 40 gallons a day just for drinking water. Then you have to add in the evaporative losses from whatever water trough you use for animals to drink from, spillage etc.

@@brnmcc01 We do run about 25K-30K at the house, but are irrigating with the 110F days during the summer. However during the winter 3K or so is our normal as well. I was just mentioning that I can produce 1800 gallons per day on my boat of fresh water from seawater, and have a 900 gallon fresh water tank in the boat. As an example my pressure washer is 4GPM when running, now I don't run it for hours on end, but will go an hour or so at a time. Not sure how much reserve is in that well before it start to run dry.

@@Chris_In_Texas Yup, 10x is what I figured for a ballpark guesstimate for summer irrigation, things like that. I was pretty close for a SWAG! (scientific wild assed guess) :)

@@brnmcc01 when we were on city sewer we always used minimum water during February as that is the month they used to figure sewage price for the year. Now we have aerobic septic system now so it doesn’t matter much. 👍

@@Chris_In_Texas Here they take the average of all the winter months for the summer sewer usage. I guess that's fair but can't cheat the system a bit by using as little water as possible for 28(29 in leap year) days 👍

We have some wells in our county that runs out the top of the casing, called artesian wells. It’s a problem when that happens

From what I've seen in his videos they use hydraulic oil to inflate it.

Flushing out the Water seams that already exist. You can't truly fracture rock.

Not with 1000psi lol we frac at over 10000psi up to 14000 to break formation when fracking oil and gas

@@h2omechanic For oil well, yes you can they set special high explosive charges at the exact depths and the supersonic shock waves fracture the rock. Works best in soft brittle rock like shale formations. What the oil companies refer to as "tight formations". The Marcellus shale formation is great for fracking, and produces lots of natural gas as well as oil.

Your 100% correct. Just not in my area.

@@h2omechanic In West Virginia there's a lot of brine formations, in fact in Nitro, WV there was a lot of chemical companies that set up shop in that area and also south of Wheeling, because of the good brine wells. They used the brine to produce sodium hydroxide, which is the base chemical used for many other industrial processes. In the old days, they would actually get pissed off if they hit natural gas or oil, they would cap that well, and start another drill, because they were interested in the brine. Which leads to my question, have you ever had a well after fracking that suddenly turned salty? Or maybe your area is far enough away from the Brine formations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

I live rural myself, but luckily in Central Georgia, US, we can drill 45-60ft and have bountiful clear water here almost anywhere.

Ouch! 24 gallons a day, thats not enough for even a single person. I use 20 gallons a day just myself to take one shower a day, and flush a toilet a couple times. One load of laundry is over 20 gallons easy. That well was only enough for cooking, washing dishes, and drinking water. Forget washing your car with a 24 gallon a day well, that's not happening.

You are lucky we are in New River Az. And our static water level has dropped 80 ft and is now at the bottom of the pump. Can't find anyone to extend the depth just want to drill a whole new well at 45.00 a ft plus pipe casing and pump. Now having to haul water

@@scottmeek920 crazy but I own land just north of you off Table Mesa Road, my well that I was referring to is in Young AZ

@@scottmeek920 How deep is the well? It's pretty hard to drill an existing well deeper, have to know exactly what type and size of drill bit was used, was it a used bit or a new bit. The problem with trying to drill thru an existing hole is the bit can jam and break off the drill string. Also it's difficult to get the drill precisely lined up with the existing hole. It can actually be less total work to just drill a new hole. 400' would only be roughly $27,000 that's not too bad. Figure I pay roughly $65 a month for city water at 3000 gallons per month average. Yes that 27000 would be 34 years worth of water for me, but, that's very minimal water use, since I don't need to irrigate anything living on a large lot in the midwest. In Arizona whatever you don't irrigate will be dead. And in a hot climate you'll be taking more showers and drinking more water, so 3000 gallons a month might be enough for only a single person. I can make do with 3000 gallon a month here with 2 people in the house, it's just me and the wife here. If you were at like 9000 gallons a month then the payback period would be only 11.5 years, and city water in Arizona even if you could get it I'm sure is much more than the rates here.

I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.

Fracking will only work on a creviced rock formation. Wells with casing big enough for submersible pumps do not have check valves on the casing, Only perferations or screen in the casing.

That's the next step if this well can't keep up. But we had to frack this first, before introducing another hole. 2 wells & youll risk fracking 1 into the other. I think they be fine for now.

@@h2omechanic How far apart would they have to be to prevent fracking 1 into the other?

Thank you in advance anything will help at this point. Brand new piping going down new jet backer new pump new tank. Everything. Be headed up tomorrow to work on it. Thank you for any ideas.

It reaches equilibrium static pressure and stops rising.

If it's a full artisian we'll it will flow out. Pretty rare

He's not applying enough pressure to create new fractures by actually compressing the rock. He's just widening crevises near the well to increase short term flow.

My region is all granite.

No tanks. The well itself will hold enough for high demand times.

@@kevinroberts781 Thank you 👍

We all have tanks (compressing air to store energy for pressure), but it's about duty cycle on the well. A very large tank might only move 40 gallons or so. The commercial equivalent is a water tower. Without the pressure tank, a typical well (runs at only one speed) would constantly click on and off and quickly burn up. If we run a bunch of hoses full tilt or something, the well is going to spend about half the time running. It's not a large buffer like a rainwater capture system.

7 bar is 102 psi. That's too high for residential use, unless you have a pressure regulator. Standard here is roughly 75 psi for fire sprinkler systems, or 50 psi for bath and sink fixtures. That works out to a little over 5 bar pressure which is more reasonable.

@@richardhouser2414 Yup, water towers around where I live (not very high density) typically have about 3 pumps. One 5 gallon per minute pump which is built for very long duty cycles. A 10-15 gpm medium duty pump. And an 'emergency' 50 gallon per minute pump. During the day if needed only the small 5 gpm pump runs almost continously. At night, depending on the days water usage, the larger pump will kick on when the electricity rates are lower. During emergencies like if there was a water main break or a large fire somewhere, the 50 gpm pump will be started remotely. Yes that 50 gpm pump will run the well dry eventually, but it's turned off as soon as possible, then the later at night when the wells have recovered and the off peak electricity rates, they will refill the water tower back to full at that time slowly overnight. The key is matching the demand to the right size of pump, and only running the larger pumps at night when electricity is the cheapest.

A new well is 4 to 5 times more

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It has its time and place, generally not for groups of wells. I wonder what would happen if you fracked all 3 wells, but I think it would be hard to keep all 3 full and pressurized

I'm thinking have to keep the packer above the perferations to prevent leaking around it, and in a grouted area to prevent collapsing the casing.

No. I only frack wells over 250ft

We estimate 3rd gear can flow 30-35 gpm by how fast it can draw down the 550gal tank. But that's relitive to the pressure we see during the process & how open the veins become

Yup, but now oil companies used special shaped charges that have a high brisance (higher shock velocity, lower power) to shatter the rock. The key is getting a good fit between the explosive and the rock formation. Sort of like how a shaped charge used to cut a steel beam during controlled demolition needs a precise standoff distance. Perhaps a standard stick of dynamite is the right diameter for a 3" well, or was close enough to work.

Sediment plugs up the veins & fracking blows out all that Sediment. Give it a few weeks of normal use and the water will become clear eventually. You may want to look into a bigger Sediment filter. Google Big Blue Inline water filter,20"x4" & you can buy 1micron or 5 micron string woven elements to help control your Sediment issues The bigger filter will allow more water flow/Pressure than a small residential filter. Just don't use a carbon element. But it'll clear up in time.

Thanks! The cloudiness starts at bottom of glass floats to top and is gone in about 10 sec then the H20 is crystal clear with no sediment settled at bottom. Will wait awhile and see.

@Kathleen-wf1jr they might have had air in the lines when they fracked it, it'll return to normal in time.

About 15 years

Unfortunately no. 8 hours south

@@h2omechanic damn I’ve had a day from hell today my 300ft well has pretty much slowed to nothing. It’s an old well I think but i think im going to try having it hydrofracked

@@h2omechanic how often does it not work

Also a round about avg cost

Great videos a lot of info and thank you for your time

No! It hasn’t been banned! Water well and oil wells are separate! And You’re thinking of acid fracking. But even in the oil industry acid fracking hasn’t been completely banned. They have shut disposal wells.

No, the state banned the fracking used by Oil Well Drillers. It was proven they were the cause of all the earth quakes we were having here. The largest earthquake known to be induced by hydraulic fracturing in Oklahoma was a M3.6 earthquakes in 2019.

For quake-prone parts of Oklahoma, the state ordered what is essentially a 40 percent reduction in injection of the saltwater that scientists generally blame for the massive increase in earthquakes. This year, before the new rules went into effect on May 28, Oklahoma averaged 2.3 quakes a day. Since then the average dropped to 1.3 a day, based on AP’s analysis of U.S. Geological Survey data of earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or larger. But some of those fewer post-regulatory quakes have been large and damaging.

Fracking has a high success rate and is cheaper than drilling a new well. There's no big negative draw backs for the customer, only risk is on us & our equipment if something were to fail during the process.

For a before and after, they just need to be consistent.

@Mike Edwards I get it but at 250 it could be 10 gallans a min or more. But over all a 4 time increase.

@@solarminer7194 It’s probably best to test near the normal operating range, not where it is at risk of going dry.