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Borehole Drilling in Kimberley
Thinking of drilling a borehole in Kimberley? Send the area, what the water is for, how much access a rig has, and what holes nearby have found if you know, so drillers who work in Kimberley and across Northern Cape can quote rates per metre, casing and testing.
The main borehole drilling page explains the types, the sizing and the costs in more detail.
What to know locally in Kimberley
Kimberley's pump shops and rewinders serve a huge area, from city boosters to farm borehole pumps hundreds of kilometres out. Drillers who know the dolerite are worth asking about siting, but no one can promise water. Solar quotes should include anti-theft mounting. Pump hire is available for flooded sites and diggings, and spares like pressure switches and capacitors are kept in town.
Kimberley: the properties, the water and the pump shops
Kimberley's water arrives by pipeline from the Vaal River, and when a pipe bursts or a pump station fails, whole suburbs can go without water for days. That has made tanks, boosters and boreholes a normal sight in Hadison Park, Beaconsfield and the newer suburbs. Outside the city, the dry Northern Cape takes over: sheep, cattle and game farms water stock from boreholes, and solar pumps are replacing windmills on many of them. Irrigation farms along the Riet River near Ritchie and the Vaal toward Barkly West grow crops under pivots and canals. Ground is mostly dolerite and shale, which makes borehole siting more skill than luck. Diamond diggings on the river need small dewatering and slurry pumps.
The requests we see from Kimberley usually come from:
- Homeowners: a garden borehole in the suburbs drilled to ride out water cuts
- Smallholdings and plots: one borehole sited and drilled for the house, animals and a veg garden
- Municipalities, schools and clinics: village water project boreholes drilled, tested and equipped
Local tips for Kimberley
Asked for most in Kimberley: tank and booster backup for supply failures, farm solar pumps, diggings pumps. Where the pump shops and drillers are: pump shops and rewinders in Kimberley's industrial areas, drillers serving the district. A useful tip: ask how large a tank you need to last through a multi-day outage.
Sizes vary: often 30 to 150 m deep, sometimes deeper. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for a garden borehole in the suburbs drilled to ride out water cuts. One local point to raise: installers drive long distances to farms; expect per kilometre charges.
Service area: Kimberley and surrounds
Pump suppliers and technicians on our network work in Kimberley and surrounding areas, including Galeshewe, Roodepan, Ritchie, Barkly West, Hadison Park, Beaconsfield. Give your suburb or farm, so the call-out and travel can be quoted honestly.