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Borehole Drilling in Limpopo
Thinking of drilling a borehole in Limpopo? 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 Limpopo and across Limpopo can quote rates per metre, casing and testing.
Want to know more first? Our borehole drilling guide covers the options, what to ask for and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Limpopo
Polokwane and Tzaneen have the main workshops for rewinds, pump repairs and spares, so a farm pump often travels a long way to be fixed: keep a spare capacitor and pressure switch on hand. Drillers and installers commonly work far into the bush, so ask about travel and setup charges. Bigger abstraction for irrigation may need to be registered with the Department of Water and Sanitation: check before drilling.
Who pumps what in Limpopo
Hot, dry for much of the year and spread over huge distances, Limpopo depends on boreholes more than most provinces. Polokwane and many villages draw a large share of their water from groundwater, and towns have had supply interruptions in long dry spells. Around Tzaneen and Letsitele, avocados, mangoes, citrus and nuts are irrigated from the Letaba catchment and from boreholes, while game farms in the Waterberg, near Hoedspruit and along the Limpopo valley pump water to troughs and pans with solar sets. Mining adds its own demand: platinum near Mokopane, coal at Lephalale and copper and phosphate at Phalaborwa all need dewatering and slurry pumps. Summer heat pushes motors hard, and storms bring lightning.
The requests we see from Limpopo usually come from:
- Farms: several holes surveyed and drilled for stock water and irrigation
- Complexes, estates and body corporates: a communal borehole drilled for the gardens of a complex or security estate
- Smallholdings and plots: one borehole sited and drilled for the house, animals and a veg garden
Local tips for Limpopo
Common here: solar pumps on game farms, orchard irrigation, borehole pumps for town and village homes. Ask each supplier about this: ask how the solar array is secured against theft and who handles call-outs. Where they work from: polokwane industrial areas, Tzaneen, Mokopane, Lephalale and Phalaborwa.
Borehole Drilling usually suit gardens, plots, farms, estates, businesses. How it is fitted: rotary percussion with air, then cased. For farms, the biggest group here, that usually means several holes surveyed and drilled for stock water and irrigation. On the ground and water: long hot dry season, summer storms; deep water in parts, hard rock in many places.
Service area: Limpopo and surrounds
Across Limpopo our network reaches Polokwane, Tzaneen, Mokopane, Lephalale, Hoedspruit, Thohoyandou, Phalaborwa and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether the pump comes from a regional town or a metro, and where repairs are done.