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Save Money on Well Records

February 26, 2016 by Kodiak Drilling

Efficiency in Well Records

saveMoney One of the advantages of working with Kodiak drill crews is that we try to minimize the time spent on the job site, filling out the Provincial record that is required when groundwater monitoring wells are installed. That time savings reduces your drilling costs. Since drill crews – from any company – charge out at a substantial hourly rate, the savings can be appreciable.

But to give you that savings, we need your help. We’ll ask you for a scaled map of your drill site and the drill locations. We’ll ask you for contact details for the land owner, since that information must be entered on the well record. If we’ve drilled multiple wells, we can save you a lot of costs by recording them as a single cluster – but we need you to ask the property owner to provided a signed permission form. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change – and Provincial law – requires that well records be filed, and we do our best to keep that cost to a minimum. When our office calls, asking whether you’ve filled out our drilling information package, we need your help. It’s because we’re trying to help you. For you, or your client, the help you give us is in filing the well record is like putting money in your pocket.

February 2016

Protect Your Groundwater Day

September 9, 2014 by Kodiak Drilling

September 9, 2014

Today is “Protect Your Groundwater Day” – a special day designated by the National Groundwater Association. Click Groundwater for more information.

MOE Test Holes and Dewatering Well Manual

April 23, 2013 by Kodiak Drilling

Draft Manual Available

Six years after being conceived, four years since the writing team began, and after one year on the desks of the legal team at the MOE, the much anticipated Best Management Practices Manual has been released for public comment. This hefty tome checks in at 856 pages (plus legislation). This document, Test Holes and Dewatering Wells: Requirements and Best Management Practices, sets out the MOE expectations when licenced well drillers are installing groundwater monitoring wells, including those for geotechnical and environmental site assessment purposes. When advising drillers how they would like their wells constructed, consultants should be familiar with the MOE recommended best management practices. Although the comment period for the draft is now closed, you can access the information by clicking MOE BMPs for Wells.

Date: April 2013

OGWA Safety Article

December 22, 2011 by Kodiak Drilling

The Source

Safety is a key feature of the Fall 2011 edition of The Source, a publication of the Ontario Ground Water Association (OGWA). Our feature article from a 2010 newsletter entitled Drilling Is Not Dangerous caught the attention of OGWA and was published in the magazine. The article can be found in the safety section of our articles or in the magazine. We applaud OGWA for encouraging safety within the groundwater industry. More information about the Ontario Ground Water Association can be found by clicking OGWA.

We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate our colleague Dave Gunn of Geo-Environmental Drilling who will be taking over the presidency of OGWA. Dave is well known in our industry as a proponent of safe drilling practices in environmental and geotechnical drilling.

Well Tag Drawings

December 22, 2011 by Kodiak Drilling

Guidelines for Well Drawing

As you are likely aware, when monitoring wells are installed by Kodiak, a well record is filed with the Ministry of Environment (MOE). Included with the record is a drawing showing the location of the installed wells. We have provided below, some guidelines to help you prepare drawings that are consistent with the MOE requirements.

Requirements

There must be two measurements for each well, including a measurement from the well to a known feature.
Features for well measurements that the MOE considers acceptable include 1) edge of street, 2) property line, 3) rail line, 4) river bank, 5) Lot/concession. The measurement can not be to another well. Features for measurements should be permanent, with curved features being avoided.
Orientation of the features used for measurements is important – they should each be perpendicular to each other (see our examples below).

Plan and Draw

Include a north arrow.
Include streets, property lines, well symbols, dimension lines, street names, well labels, property numbers.
Dimensions should be in metres.
Indicate which well has the tag.