A cautionary taleThis is a good example of what not to do if you can help it. On a property west of Waipawa, the owner had genuinely done his homework — he’d pulled the GNS lithology maps (which are freely available) showing the different rock types under the site, along with the known fault lines […]
Pāpā countryThis one’s on the East Coast of New Zealand, just north of Gisborne at Whangārā — classic Pāpā country, where the ground is mudstone. Pāpā makes an absolutely beautiful aquifer, but it releases its water very slowly… unless you can find the fractures. Find a fracture, and everything changes. The starting pointThe client already had […]
After a 300m dry hole cost ~$200k, we found an aquifer at 160m producing 30,000 L/hr in a tough area.