Quality water drilled water well systems cannot be understated, water wells are absolutely vital for thousands of Fraser Valley properties to thrive. Many properties suffer year after year with low yielding wells and many others whose water wells go completely dry.

Property values can be greatly affected by the lack of water or an existing sub-standard shallow well that perhaps, should have been replaced many years ago. If you've ever been required to haul water to just barely meet the basic water demands of a property during the hot summer months as many Fraser Valley property owners do you will completely appreciate what I am saying.

Fraser Valley Well Drilling is completely transparent with all well drilling costs, we avoid well drilling practices that may not be in the best interest of an property, we strive to provide fantastic service along with great results!

Fraser Valley Well Drilling drills water wells 12 months of the year, drilling a water well during the winter months is a great time to drill for many properties. All to often properties owners wait for the hot summer months to drill, by this time they are generally out of water or hauling water because their well has gone permanently dry.

Drilling for water during the summer may also be best for some properties for several reasons, one is the issue of access - it’s not always possible to access a property during the wet season.

The cost to drill a well may also be less during the slower seasons, Fraser Valley Well Drilling offers reduced well drilling rates throughout the winter, contact us to learn more about our winter well drilling rates!

Throughout the summer all trades in the BC Groundwater industry are extremely busy leaving many property owners waiting sometimes for 2-3 months for well drilling and well pump installations.

Fraser Valley Well Drilling drills water wells in Langley, Cloverdale, Maple Ridge, Abbotsford, Clearbrook, Sumas Mountain, Promontory Heights, Chilliwack, Yarrow, Sardis, Cultus Lake, Mission, Dewdney, Hatzic, Deroche, Whonnock, Harrison and Hope

When the drilling schedule permits, we do drill for water on Bowen Island, Squamish and Whistler and many of the Gulf Islands, we are even equipped for remote drilling and are experts with heliportable drilling.

The well drilling costs on Bowen Island, Squamish, Whistler and the Gulf Islands are generally more affordable when there is more than a single water well that needs to be drilled, the additional costs to drill a well such as travel expenses can be shared among 3 or 3 property owners.

If you would like to know what it will cost to drill a well on your Fraser Valley property, we recommend that you begin by requesting an online well drilling estimate.

Once we have some basic information, we can quickly create a detailed well drilling cost estimate based on accurate data and specific for the property that you wish to drill. Well Drilling cost vary greatly from on area to another in the Fraser Valley.

Prior to drilling a well it's very important to give your well drilling site selection considerable thought. Well Drilling is costly and at Fraser Valley Well Drilling we are very diligent and want to provide the very best to our clients, everything possible needs to be considered to avoid dry hole drilling in the Fraser Valley.

When drilling for water you are paying by the foot to drill a well, because of our stellar reputation we are extremely busy and wish to keep all well drilling costs as reduced as possible for our clients.

Fraser Valley Well Drilling Set-back Requirements British Columbia Ministry of Environment Regulations

Fraser Valley Water Wells Should Not Be:

1) Within a horizontal distance of 3 m (10′) of an existing building.

2) Within a horizontal distance of 30 m (100′) of any probable source of contamination or point of waste discharge to the ground, such as a privy vault, cesspool, septic effluent field, manure heap, stable or pig sty; or

3) Within a horizontal distance of 120 m (400′) of any cemetery or dumping ground.

4) Drilled within 50′ of a neighbors well – dug or drilled

Thousands of water wells in the Fraser Valley are not deep, in fact many wells will be far less than 200′ deep and many will be less than 50’

If a water well is located near potential sources of contamination, it’s vulnerable with a high potential for contamination and the possibly of causing serious illness or even death.

British Columbia Water Well Regulations & Ministry of Environment set-backs for water wells in the Fraser Valley are required and necessary to protect water resources from becoming contaminated from a multitude of possible sources.

To understand comparable well drilling depths, it’s best to locate the BC Ministry of Environment set-backs and refer to your local resources including well drilling reports, resources are available at BC Water Well Search and Fraser Valley Municipal Bylaws.

Potential sources of water well contamination would include waste discharge to the ground, such as privy vaults (also known as an outhouse or pit toilet), cesspool (“overflow” pits), underground storage tanks, septic tanks an effluent field, stable or pig sty, manure heap, fertilizers and pesticides, run-off from urban areas, even a cemetery or landfill sites.

A drilled water well located within any of the Fraser Valley communities should be located on higher ground when feasible to with proper well head protection from normal or seasonal flooding and possible surface drainage.

Both shallow wells and deep drilled wells located in the Fraser Valley may become seasonally vulnerable and should be located away from surface drainage ditches and all other potential sources of contamination.