With flood conditions that have hit so many areas it is hard to think of the drier times. This Star article is a good reminder.
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/technology/Real+enemy+drought/3249401/story.html
Monday, July 12, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
July 1 Update -
Pretty sure I had posted to our blog mid June before coming out of MB but the draft was still sitting in draft mode when I finally got to checking it today. I remember the attempt being a late night effort just after taking a week to move off our property in MB and than going right back to surveys in N AB and SK. That said, getting out the reports and answering emails and calls from our clients always takes priority whether they come thru the site or from a referral and the blog suffers as a result. May have to start sharing that responsibility. Though we have another move ahead of us here Alberta is home now. We expect it to be better for us and our clients as we are more centered to the bulk of our work.
It is just really great when you get a call and a driller calls and says “Did you hear the good news?” followed by “Don’t know how you did it, but it worked! This guy has tried for years for a decent well and finally he’s got one” and then “You can expect us to send you some clients that are in this area and hope you do the same for them”. This was a call last week from another site surveyed in late spring that has that turned out better than we estimated, resulting in over 6 gpm where most wells were somewhat less than half of that. The record for the year is looking great.
We are now thru all but a couple of the early bookings except those that were delayed by our clients, and onto the 2nd and 3rd round in some areas. Being close to home in most of southern AB we can keep pretty current here. We expect to head east into SK/MB next week, back to AB and than into BC about the 3rd or forth week. August tends to be not quite as busy though we expect we will need another week at least in S.BC later in the month and another one into N. BC likely late August or early September. Though we hope not, by that time it can become the last loops in BC as with harvest coming off by this time and the surveys pre-booked for after the crop is off it usually makes for a busy September and October. All the rain in the east may complicate things and slow them somewhat but at some point getting everything done will just depend on when winter sets in. Its just July …did I say Winter?
It is just really great when you get a call and a driller calls and says “Did you hear the good news?” followed by “Don’t know how you did it, but it worked! This guy has tried for years for a decent well and finally he’s got one” and then “You can expect us to send you some clients that are in this area and hope you do the same for them”. This was a call last week from another site surveyed in late spring that has that turned out better than we estimated, resulting in over 6 gpm where most wells were somewhat less than half of that. The record for the year is looking great.
We are now thru all but a couple of the early bookings except those that were delayed by our clients, and onto the 2nd and 3rd round in some areas. Being close to home in most of southern AB we can keep pretty current here. We expect to head east into SK/MB next week, back to AB and than into BC about the 3rd or forth week. August tends to be not quite as busy though we expect we will need another week at least in S.BC later in the month and another one into N. BC likely late August or early September. Though we hope not, by that time it can become the last loops in BC as with harvest coming off by this time and the surveys pre-booked for after the crop is off it usually makes for a busy September and October. All the rain in the east may complicate things and slow them somewhat but at some point getting everything done will just depend on when winter sets in. Its just July …did I say Winter?
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