Well Drilling
New water wells for homes, farms and new construction, and replacement wells when an old well runs dry, drilled and cased to bedrock by drillers who know the Upstate ground.
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The City of Union runs water lines inside town, and a few small districts reach out along the main roads. Past those lines, a place in Union County gets its water from a well. That is most of the county, out past Cross Keys, Santuc and Goshen Hill. When an old well starts pulling air in a dry September, there is no city main nearby.
Core Well Drilling is based in Pacolet, about 17 road miles northwest of Union. We are licensed and bonded, and our drillers bring more than 40 years of drilling experience. Here we drill new water wells, replacement wells, and wells for houses going up on rural land. We also set the pump system, the pressure tank and the water line to the house. Call (864) 768-5688 and we will get back to you.
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Public water in Union County comes from a short list of systems. The City of Union runs the largest one. The towns of Jonesville, Lockhart and Carlisle each run their own. Outside those, rural districts named Meansville Riley, Browns Creek, Rocky Creek and Santuc Hebron carry the rest.
Every one of those systems draws on surface water. None of them pumps from a well. Union County's public water comes off the rivers, and the pipe follows the towns and the bigger roads. Land off a county road between Cross Keys and Goshen Hill sits outside all of it.
So a house, a barn or a camp out there has one way to get water. You drill for it. That is why so much of Union County has stayed well country.
Wells are state business in South Carolina, not county business. A Notice of Intent goes to the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services before drilling starts. The regulation puts responsibility for that permit coverage on the well driller. State rules also say every well in South Carolina has to be drilled by a certified well driller.
Septic runs through the same state agency, by way of its local environmental affairs office. Union County is covered by the Greenville Spartanburg office, the same one that covers Spartanburg and Cherokee counties. Building permits are the county's job, and those go through Union County at the courthouse on West Main Street.
When the well is finished, the driller files a water well record with the state. It lists the total depth, the casing depth and what the well produced. You end up with a state record of your own well.
Union County sits on the Piedmont, the same ground as the rest of the Upstate. Red clay and weathered rock lie over hard crystalline bedrock. Water moves through cracks in that rock rather than through an underground pool. Two lots a quarter mile apart can hit water at very different depths.
The state's published water level records do not include a well inside Union County. The nearest ones give the range. A Piedmont rock well logged in Laurens County runs 194 feet, and one in Chester County runs 98 feet. Two in Spartanburg County run 225 feet and 442 feet.
One of our jobs up in Inman hit hard rock and found good water at a little over 520 feet. That is why the written estimate quotes a minimum depth. The state standard has us set casing to bedrock. Nobody can see where bedrock starts before the bit gets there.
A lot of Union County land is held for timber and hunting. Sumter National Forest tracts run through the south of the county, inside the Enoree Ranger District. A cabin, a barn or a hunting camp out there needs its own water the same as a house does.
We drill wells sized for irrigation and livestock, and for filling a pond or a pool. A farm well is sized by gallons per minute rather than by the size of the household. The site survey is where we work that out with you, before anything gets scheduled.
Union is a short run for us. The rig comes down SC-9 out of Pacolet, through Jonesville, then south on SC-18 into town. That is about 17 miles and close to 25 minutes. Union sits where US-176, SC-49 and SC-215 meet, so the rest of the county is easy to reach. Many wells are drilled in a day or two. Our Google reviews mention water at the house within two days.
Communities and areas we serve around Union: Buffalo, Jonesville, Lockhart, Carlisle, Santuc, Cross Keys, Kelton, Monarch, West Springs, Adamsburg, Goshen Hill, Sedalia.
Union ZIP codes served: 29379.
Free estimates throughout Union County and the surrounding area.
(864) 768-5688 New water wells for homes, farms and new construction, and replacement wells when an old well runs dry, drilled and cased to bedrock by drillers who know the Upstate ground.
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No water at the house, pressure that keeps dropping, or a pump that never shuts off. We check the system in order and repair or replace the part that failed.
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Core Well Drilling installs the complete pump system on new and existing wells. That covers the submersible pump, the pitless adapter, the pressure tank and switch, and the hookup at the house.
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A well pressure tank holds water under pressure so the pump does not run every time a faucet opens. We install and replace pressure tanks across the Upstate, sized to the pump on your well.
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We trench and lay the water line from the wellhead to the house or the barn. Old lines that leak or sit too shallow get replaced the same way.
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Irrigation and farm wells for sprinkler systems, livestock, ponds and pools around the Upstate. We size the pump to the well and run the line out to the field.
Learn MoreReal reviews from real wells, 10 reviews on Google.
Guys did an excellent job on drilling our well. Got out here in a timely manner. Super nice guys. Highly recommend these guys!
They were very courteous and professional. In two days I had water to my house. I would recommend them to anyone, you won't regret it. It's a very reliable company, and they stand by their work!
Went above and beyond for me to get what I needed done for my new house! Was walked through the process of everything and what to expect if anything goes wrong and I felt as if I was completely ready for anything. You need help, call these guys!
The gentleman that own Core Well were so nice and helpful in explaining about drilling our Well . I would definitely recommend them if you're in need of getting a well done.
Friendly and professional. Did a great job drilling my well at fair price and in timely manner
Very professional
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