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WorldWide Drilling Resource ® 15 JULY 2015 Through the Back Door! by Jim Kuebelbeck It doesn’t matter what he does, he will never amount to anything. -Albert Einstein’s teacher to his father, 1895 The Iowa Saga Part 1 To whom it may concern: When I reached out to Jim and Carol Kuebelbeck, I was in an extremely des- perate situation. After building our new house in 2006 on a six-acre plot just south of Logan, Iowa, we immediately started experiencing water issues. The system which was initially designed to flow 5-7 gallons per minute (gpm) imme- diately dropped to where only 2-3 gallons could be achieved. Realizing this would not support the needs of our house, the decision was made to install a 1500- gallon storage cistern to support the demands of our house, which our current well could support. This system sustained us for approx- imately two years when our problems started to get worse. The pump was now catching air at 3 gpm and, unfortu- nately, this issue was not discovered until the pump burned out due to over- heating. A local drilling contractor nursed our system along for a few more years through various methods until finally deciding a more reliable water source was necessary. This well had already cost us a total of three pumps and numer- ous service calls over the course of five years, so we decided to take his advice and consider drilling in another location on our land. Since this local drilling company had been so good to us, and had drilled all of the wells in our area, we wanted to utilize him for our next attempt at finding water. Unfortunately, he was extremely backed up with work and couldn’t get to us soon, so my wife and I made the decision to see if we could locate another drilling contractor. Eventually, we found one who was not local to our area but was highly recommended, so we decid- ed to hire him. After three more “dry holes” were drilled, the fourth well pro- duced water at a rate of 4 gpm we could possibly live with, especially since dry holes aren’t cheap and we still did have the large cistern for backup. The well was hooked up and connected to the cistern, so we were back in business and finally had a good, reliable water source, or so we thought. Unfortunately, the saga continued and the well, after only being in service for a short time, started giving us issues again. To make a long story short, after another pump motor, numerous service calls, and water deliveries to the cistern, we realized the well was gradu- ally diminishing in volume. Once again, another well needed to be drilled. With the cost of the original well and the many parts and service calls which occurred over the years, we were over $20K into our quest to find good water, so we waited and prayed the water would return. More of the story next month. Jim Jim Kuebelbeck may be contacted via e-mail at michele@ worldwidedrillingresource.com