Well Drilling
New water wells for homes, new construction and failing-well replacements — drilled, cased, developed and connected, start to finish.
HydroWells provides well drilling in Poolesville, MD, where the town line decides where your water comes from. Inside the town limits, homes and businesses draw from the Town of Poolesville's public system. That system relies entirely on groundwater, withdrawn from twelve wells located throughout town. The county's water and sewer plan calls it the only community water system in the county that relies on groundwater. Around the town lies the county's 93,000 acre Agricultural Reserve, created by the County Council in 1980. The Town's system serves only properties inside its limits, and in the county's rural areas, homes depend mainly on wells. HydroWells is based in Poolesville and Dickerson, and we take calls 24/7.
Our crew drills new and replacement wells with truck-mounted drill rigs. A mini excavator trenches the water line from the well to your house. When the water stops, call us at any hour. We triage no-water calls by phone for free, then handle the well pump repair. A truck-mounted hoist reel pulls a failed submersible pump, and we set pressure tanks and constant pressure systems. Buying a farmhouse outside town? A well inspection checks the system before closing. Our water testing handles certified lab sampling for closings, including FHA and VA loans. As a Maryland-licensed well drilling company, we have a Master Well Driller and a state-licensed pump installer. Estimates are free, and you get yours in writing after we see the lot.
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The Town's wells are drilled 285 to 800 feet deep into the New Oxford Formation aquifer. All of them feed one central distribution system, so most homes get a blended mix of water from the wells. The Town's own operators maintain all twelve wells and their treatment equipment. The Town says its groundwater gets chlorine treatment, as federal drinking water law requires. Poolesville has run its own water system since 1964 and supplies about 6,000 residents and several businesses. The county has only three public water and sewer districts, and Poolesville's matches the town's corporate limits. The largest, the Washington Suburban Sanitary District, serves most of the county.
Four watersheds lie inside the town's boundaries: Horsepen Branch, Broad Run, Dry Seneca Creek and Russell Branch. The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) issues the Town's water appropriation permits watershed by watershed. The water each permit allows is based on that watershed's recharge area inside town. The wells draw from sedimentary rock such as sandstone and siltstone. In 1980 and 1998, the EPA designated parts of western Montgomery County as sole source aquifers. The Poolesville sole source aquifer is one of them. The EPA uses that label for the sole or principal source of drinking water for an area.
Montgomery Planning counts Poolesville among the county's larger rural communities, with Beallsville and Dickerson among its small crossroad communities. The Reserve's rural lands separate Poolesville from the Maryland suburbs of Washington, and new housing there is restricted. Two state highways serve the town. MD 107 heads east along Fisher Avenue, and Fisher Avenue leaves town to the west as Whites Ferry Road. MD 109 runs north on Elgin Road, which becomes Beallsville Road at the town line. It crosses MD 28 in Beallsville and continues through Barnesville.
Countywide, about 80,000 residents rely on groundwater as their only water supply, the county water plan says. Before any well is drilled, Montgomery County's Department of Permitting Services (DPS) requires a Well Permit. That includes wells for irrigation or farm use. For well drilling here, our licensed driller also submits the State Drilling Permit application directly to DPS. DPS inspects the construction, and a draw test checks the new well's capacity before final permitting. New drinking water wells are normally sampled for nitrates, coliform bacteria and turbidity. Irrigation wells also need MDE's Water Appropriation and Use permit. The same county rules apply across our Montgomery County well service.
Communities & areas we serve around Poolesville: Beallsville, Dickerson, Barnesville, Whites Ferry Road, Beallsville Road (MD 109), Broad Run, Dry Seneca Creek, the Agricultural Reserve.
Poolesville ZIP codes served: 20837.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Montgomery County.
(301) 393-7090 New water wells for homes, new construction and failing-well replacements — drilled, cased, developed and connected, start to finish.
High-pressure water injection that opens up the bedrock fractures feeding your well — often the fix for a low-yield or declining well.
Submersible and jet pumps diagnosed, repaired and replaced — no-water calls, weak pressure, short cycling. Available 24/7.
Pressure tanks, switches and constant-pressure systems — installed, repaired and sized right, so the shower stops surging and the pump stops suffering.
Unused, failed or replaced wells properly sealed to county requirements — protecting your property, the groundwater, and your paperwork.
Complete well system checks — yield, pump performance, tank, wellhead condition and water quality — documented for home sales or your own peace of mind.
A few of the questions we hear most around Poolesville. Don't see yours? Call us — we're happy to help.
No water, weak pressure, a well to drill, water that needs testing or treatment? Call or send the form and we will look at the property with you and hand you a free written estimate — and for a house that is dry right now, we answer 24/7.
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