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Borehole Drilling in North West
Thinking of drilling a borehole in North West? 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 North West and across North West 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.
Installation, repairs & parts in North West: local notes
Rustenburg has a large base of mine suppliers, rewinders and pump rebuild shops, and Brits workshops serve farms and plots. Drillers and installers cover long distances to farms in the west, so ask how travel is charged. Lightning damage to control boxes is common in summer. Larger irrigation abstraction may need to be registered with the Department of Water and Sanitation, so check before you size a big pump.
Who pumps what in North West
The platinum belt runs from Brits through Rustenburg, and its shafts, concentrators and tailings dams keep a whole industry of slurry, dewatering and process pumps at work. Around Brits and Hartbeespoort, smallholdings and vegetable farms take water from boreholes and from canals below the dam. Further west, the maize country around Lichtenburg, Delareyville and Mahikeng leans on groundwater, much of it from dolomite aquifers that feed springs and town supplies, while cattle farms towards Vryburg still have windmills being swapped for solar pumps. Klerksdorp and Orkney sit on old gold mines with their own water to manage. Summers bring heavy storms; winters are dry, and borehole levels can drop late in the season.
The requests we see from North West usually come from:
- Mines and quarries: boreholes drilled for site water supply and groundwater monitoring
- Farms: several holes surveyed and drilled for stock water and irrigation
- Smallholdings and plots: one borehole sited and drilled for the house, animals and a veg garden
Local tips for North West
Common here: slurry and dewatering pumps on the mines, smallholding boreholes, solar stock pumps. Ask each supplier about this: ask whether travel to the farm is priced per kilometre or as a fixed call-out. Where they work from: rustenburg and Brits industrial areas, Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom and Mahikeng.
Sizes vary: often 30 to 150 m deep, sometimes deeper. Here, mines and quarries lead the requests, typically for boreholes drilled for site water supply and groundwater monitoring. One local point to raise: rustenburg and Brits workshops cover the belt; western farms are long drives out.
Service area: North West and surrounds
Pump suppliers and technicians on our network work throughout North West, including Rustenburg, Mahikeng, Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp, Brits, Hartbeespoort, Lichtenburg. For smaller towns, farms and lodges, ask how the call-out and travel are charged.