Australia day and Australian boreholes

It’s Australia day!

We all know Australia is dry – we’ve all seen the films and programmes of arid deserts and Ayres Rock and let’s face it compared to this country any where is dry!

Consequently, many boreholes and wells in Australia are significantly deep, much deeper than we have here in the UK. In Australia boreholes can extend for more than 2000m to access very old water than fell several hundred and in some cases thousands of years ago. In the UK we are very fortunate to live in a country rich in water and in many cases good water supplies can be gained from underground by not needing to go deeper than 60m but just in case we can go to in excess of 400m, more than adequate for the UK, to find you the water that you need.

About the Author: Jonathan Dalton

2nd generation of one of the founding directors 'Jonny' has approximately 12 years in the groundwater industry in various guises. Jonny worked in the Groundwater and Contaminated Land unit of the Environment Agency dealing with both regulation of groundwater abstraction licenses, then became a senior Geo-environmental Scientist for a large consulting engineers before moving on to become a director at Dales Water full time in 2009. Jonny has been involved in large water well supply projects for both sports clubs and water bottling facilities but delivers on projects of all sizes.