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Water wells for homes

Most of Northwest Arkansas’s country homes still drink from a well bored into the Boone limestone. A new home well starts with siting: far enough from the septic system, the house and the power line, on ground where neighboring wells have found water. It ends with casing set and sealed into rock, the casing standing above grade, and the well disinfected before anyone drinks from it.

Wells for new construction on acreage
Siting around septic, buildings and power lines
Steel or PVC casing sealed into rock
Disinfection before first use
State construction report filed with the well’s coordinates

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Irrigation wells

An irrigation well is built for volume over a season rather than a household’s daily draw. Arkansas rules keep an irrigation well at least 100 feet from any well that supplies drinking water, so planning the site comes first. Talk through what you’re watering, how much and when, and the well is drilled for that job.

Pasture, garden and orchard water
Nursery and landscape irrigation
Sited 100 ft from potable wells
Sized to the job you describe

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Farm and livestock wells

Benton County is poultry and cattle country, and a working farm can’t wait on a creek or a pond in a dry August. A farm well is planned around the herd or the houses it serves and kept clear of barns, lagoons and manure stacks, which Arkansas rules treat like any other contamination source.

Cattle and pasture water
Poultry operations
Setbacks from barns, pens and manure
Wells for large and small farms

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Wells for businesses

Not every building in Northwest Arkansas sits on a city main. Shops, rural churches, camps and other properties beyond the water lines need a well built to the same standard as a home well, with the paperwork to show for it.

Shops and commercial buildings
Churches and camps
Properties beyond the city main
Construction report for your records

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Bed 05

Replacement wells and plugging old wells

An old hand-dug or shallow well, or a drilled well that has been abandoned, is an open path from the surface into the limestone. Arkansas rules spell out how an unused well must be filled and sealed and require a report to the state. When a well has failed, the usual answer is a new well on a better site and the old one plugged properly. Ask about this when you call.

Replacement wells
Plugging abandoned or unused wells
Sealing old hand-dug wells
State abandonment report

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Bed 06About pumps

The well, and what goes in it.

Bob Wade Drilling Co. is licensed in Arkansas’s Drill Systems Only category: it drills and builds the well. In Arkansas, setting the pump is done under a Pump Systems license, so when you call about a new well, ask how the pump, pressure tank and line to the house will be handled.

Bed 07Safety first

No water at the house?

Check the well pump’s breaker. If it has tripped, reset it once; if it trips again, leave it off and call a licensed pump installer. Never open the pressure switch, the pump control box or the wellhead wiring: they’re live at 240 volts.

Water well drilling services in Northwest Arkansas.

Water wells for homes

Irrigation wells

Farm and livestock wells

Wells for businesses

Replacement wells and plugging old wells

The well, and what goes in it.

No water at the house?

Need a well drilled in Northwest Arkansas?