One of the most common questions we get here at Dales Water is what kind of savings can be made if an end user were to switch from a mains supply to a borehole water supply. It's also usually one of the first considerations by customers in the research stage of a project, when they're [...]
Borehole design is extremely important; both for ensuring the sustainability of groundwater and also to make sure the installation creates a cost effective method of obtaining water for the end user. Sadly, borehole design and construction is one of the most overlooked aspects within the industry and not enough time, care or attention is put [...]
Health and safety is an important part of what we do, the most important thing of any job is to make sure that everyone goes home at the end of the day safe and well. One of the areas where risks are raised is when we are asked to drill Boreholes or work on Private [...]
Over the Christmas period we are officially closed from the 20th December - 2nd January. Although we will be available for emergency breakdown cover during this time - if we do not answer the telephone please leave a message on the answer phone which will be regularly checked. We would like to take this opportunity [...]
Coming to a borehole and water treatment show near you; our new Water Treatment test rig including water storage, boosting utilising variable speed technology, treatment for iron and manganese, cartridge filtration, ultra violet purification and metering. Our test rig is designed to show the user the technology involved and what they might expect if they [...]
We have just updated our case studies page with a sample of completed jobs that our team have worked on over the last 18 months including a strawberry farm, a dairy farm and a race course irrigation system. Each case study gives an overview of the location, why the business needed a private water supply [...]
Occasionally we use a tracked drilling rig to drill our borehole water supplies. Tracked machines have some distinct advantages, but also some disadvantages over conventional truck mounted machines. The tracked drilling rig we use is a small to medium size crawler mounted drilling rig. It is the most modern of the drilling rigs that we [...]
Over the past few months we have been working hard on a range of projects for both commercial, industrial and domestic customers. Consequently, we've collected some great pictures to showcase our work, equipment and in house technology which we thought we'd share in the gallery below. Each image has a brief description of what's happening so [...]
Uses of water are obvious – drinking, washing, irrigation and even leisure activities come to mind straight away but borehole water can also be used for other less obvious applications that can reduce the reliance on mains water supply saving the consumer considerable amounts of money. Many industrial and commercial (and for that matter domestic) [...]
As part of our full scale private water supply services Dales Water provide in-house water quality treatment / filtration requirements for a number of clients. For certain applications water treatment may be required to bring the water in line with drinking water requirements or to make sure it's fit for the proposed use. This is [...]