Your Scribe finally got an estimate to have a well dug and installed.

About $6,000.

I was surprised it was this expensive.

But also, my (phone) sales rep said it would be driven by electricity.

I don't have power at the cabin.

Beyond that, I don't want a fancy water system that I can show off in Town and Country.

I wonder if I am a target of "upselling," where sales staffers try to sell a very expensive line of goods to a person who just wants an average product.

Anyway, I just want to have a hole drilled to about 15 feel, find water, and put a pump in that you work with your strong right arm.

Do dowsers still exist?

Does anyone know someone who can "find" water, and then drill a shallow well.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who is knowledgeable in this field.

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