Witching With a Newfangled Twig

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This is an incredible set of figures that becomes even more impressive when measured by the acid test for a dowser: "Show me where there isn't any water." George can do that too and he has an impressive sheaf of testimonial letters which say that his Aquatometer knows both when there is and when there isn't water in a location. A typical affirmation (from the head of a law firm, no less, and dated September 8, 1970) read.

The successful conclusion of the fourth attempt to produce water on my family's 40-acre tract of land in Greenwich prompts this letter.

In 1967, we decided to build a new home on a rugged, piece of wooded land which had been held by my wife's family for some forty years. We knew the area was a tough one initially to locate water as the main house and guest cottage subsisted on a half-gallon of water per minute (plus storage) and there were three 400' dry wells, within five hundred feet of our proposed site. On our builder's recommendation we engaged Accurate Water (A) to select prospective sites for three wells (two for new houses and one for the old houses) and (B) to help us avoid prespective dry holes. You then selected three sites for us and advised us to avoid other large areas.

We drilled the first well, where you suggested, two hundred feet from the house site. We obtained precisely the amount of water you predicted at precisely the depth you estimated. At our builder's urging we then drilled second well—600' deep—directly at the house site where you told us not to drill. The hole is dry.

We next drilled a 400' well, twenty-five feet away fro: the half-gallon per minute well for the old houses, again directly where you informed us there would be no water. There was no water—the well is dry.

We next drilled a 320' well, about 300 feet from the old house well, precisely where you told us there would be eight gallons per minute by 250 feet. We have seven gallons per minute at 260 feet.

With this batting average, I thought you might want to know that your predictions—both positive and negative—turned out to be 100% accurate.

If you've priced the drilling of a well lately you'll immediately know the value of locating water this accurately. There's nothing quite as sickening to a home owner as a $1,000 dry hole . . . unless it's two of them. Schools, golf courses, plant nurseries and other volume users of water regularly save $2,000 to $5,000 or more by retaining Jamieson's services . . . or, as the contractor for a nursing home said, "I just wish I'd known about you $4,000 earlier."

Balanced against costs like that (and many of Hap's clients come to him only after one or two dry holes), Jamieson's fees are quite reasonable. He charges a home owner an average of $125 to $170 and the rates slide up on a relatively modest scale for commercial accounts that demand "minimum flow—maximum depth" guarantees.

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