16/05/2024
BOREHOLE MAINTENANCE
Borehole Maintenance: Keeping Your Water Supply Running all Year Round
If you rely on a borehole water supply either for domestic or commercial use then keeping it maintained is extremely important.
With regular borehole maintenance check-ups you can not only extend the working life of the borehole but also maintain its efficiency and borehole yield.
Top Tips for Maintaining Your Borehole
1. Don’t try to service your own borehole
It’s tempting for business and homeowners to try and carry out regular servicing on their own borehole to save costs. However, this can, and has led to them doing almost irreversible damage to their borehole water supply.
Any time you open a well cap, you create the opportunity for bacteria and foreign objects to get into the water supply.
We have been called out to various borehole sites across the NIGERIA where tools have been dropped into the borehole by mistake and pumps have gotten stuck or fallen to the bottom of the borehole. These can be quite costly to fix.
If the well owner hadn’t taken the matter into their own hands, these problems would have been avoidable.
Borehole contractors like ourselves have both specialist knowledge and equipment to keep private water supply systems fully operational and water supplies safe from contamination.
2. Prevention is Always Cheaper than the Cure
A borehole installation is a lot like a car. If you leave something that’s small and easily fixable it often becomes larger and much more expensive problem later down the line.
You should always inspect all parts of your borehole regularly including the catchment area to make sure there is no interference or damage. If you were to find any defects or have any concerns you should contact a drilling contractor for advice and the steps required to fix it.
If you’re using your borehole water as drinking water this is doubly important as by ignoring problems you may be putting your own or families health at risk.
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