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The first crop of birds was ready to be shipped out to the processor and the owner of the poultry barn was frantic. He asked how soon we could come out and locate an additional water supply. Because of the panic in his voice, we dropped every- thing we were doing and drove immediate- ly out to the property. On the way, I called the well drilling contractor, explained the situation, and asked if he had any sug- gestions. “Just one,” he said. “This time ‘you’ decide where you want to go. He’s got plenty of property to work with.” As we turned into the long driveway, we could see the landowner and his son working in the tall weeds along the drive- way. We stopped to talk and discovered they were in the process of installing a PVC waterline along the driveway from the neighboring landowner’s well, about 2000 feet away from the chicken barn. “We have to do something right now or we’re out of business!” the owner said. I told himwe were going to explore an area we had not worked on before, and he readily agreed. So, using the dowsing methods we developed over the years, we marked two more promising drill sites about 200 feet from the barn. On our way back out of the driveway, we stopped to talk to the owner and his son who were still splicing lengths of waterline together, and told themwe had located and marked two more sites. Before we drove away, the owner was already calling the well drilling contractor on his cell phone. The contractor, being well aware of the situation, returned the next morning. Later that day, the landowner called to tell us a great well was drilled on one of the sites we had marked. I asked if he was going to drill the second site also, and he said there was no need to do it because the contractor told him the new well was producingmore water than he’ll ever need. Calls such as these are what make our work so satisfying. (The “almost com- pleted” waterline from the neighbor’s well has since been abandoned.) The statements and comments in this article are my own and are based on information and references believed to be true and factual. If you have any questions or comments, please forward them to me in care of WWDR . Jim Jim Kuebelbeck may be contacted via e-mail at michele@ worldwidedrillingresource.com 26 JUNE 2015 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Through the Back Door! by Jim Kuebelbeck My plan is to live forever. So far, it’s working. -Jim Kuebelbeck Back to the Chicken Barn “I need more water.” Those were the first words I heard on the phone from a farmer we had worked for less than a year ago. He was building a large poultry barn at the time to raise broiler chickens for a major commercial processor. Only when the barn was nearing completion, did he decide to have a well drilled. Upon arrival at the property, the owner told us he would like to have a well as close as possible to the barn, so he would- n’t have to trench the water many hun- dreds of feet. We selected two possible drilling sites, but didn’t feel all that con- fident the needed water supply could be encountered on those sites, and we told him so. We left the property feeling con- fident we had provided the best advice under the circumstances. We learned from the well drilling contractor some days later that both of the sites we selected produced a good amount of water, but to meet the needs, both wells had to be joined togeth- er and fed into a main waterline to the barn. Hearing this, we felt quite relieved our efforts were successful once again. Then four months later comes this call with the words: “I need more water.” We have never had a dowsed well go dry or diminish in volume over time, so those words were quite alarming. I asked what happened and the owner toldme they had plenty of water for the broiler chickens they were raising, but in the heat of summer discovered they needed additional ground- water to supply a newly installed cooling system to keep the confined birds from overheating. When it became evident to the contracting poultry supplier that over- heating was causing the loss of an unac- ceptable amount of birds, the supplier indicated they would not deliver the next shipment of young chicks until a sufficient reliable water source was available for the cooling system.