Residential well drilling Watertown families need looks different once you cross the city limits. Inside town, most houses are on the municipal system. Out in the Towns of Watertown, Emmet, Shields and Lebanon, nearly every farmhouse and country home runs its own well, and plenty of them were drilled two or three owners ago.
Herr Well Drilling has drilled in this part of Wisconsin since 1964. From our Dousman shop, residential well drilling Watertown jobs are Highway 67 up to Oconomowoc and Highway 16 west, a little over half an hour.
Watertown sits on the Rock River and straddles the Jefferson and Dodge county line. The rural ground around it is dairy and cash-crop country, with homes set back on long driveways and old farm wells still in the yard. Residential well drilling Watertown customers ask for is usually a replacement for one of those older wells, a new well for a house going up on a split-off lot, or a second well so the house and the barn are not sharing one.
If you found us by typing residential well drilling near me from a farm road outside town, you are inside our regular service area. We will walk the lot, look at where the septic, buildings and fields sit, and tell you where a new well can go before any equipment shows up. Our water well drilling page explains the steps in more detail.
East of here, toward Milwaukee, a layer of Maquoketa shale caps the deep sandstone aquifer. That shale runs out around western Waukesha County, so by the time you reach Watertown the sandstone and dolomite take water straight from the surface. Wells around here often reach good water without going as deep as wells east of Oconomowoc, but they are also more open to what happens on the land above them.
That is why every new well installation we do in the Watertown area gets a sealed, grouted casing and a measured yield test, and why we push for water testing on farm ground. Residential water well drilling done this way gives you a well that holds up through dry summers and spring runoff alike. Our Watertown well drilling contractor page covers drilling for larger properties too.
A country home with a shop, a garden and a few animals pulls more water than a city lot. Well pump installation starts with that full picture. See our pump installation work in Watertown for how we size the system.
Low pressure, no water, or a pump that never shuts off all have different causes. A well pump repair handles switches, wiring and controls. When the pump itself is worn out, a well pump replacement in Watertown gets you back on line.
An undersized or waterlogged tank short-cycles the pump. Pressure tank installation sized to the household and the outbuildings protects the pump and evens out pressure at the tap.
On farm ground, nitrate is the water question that comes up most. Water well testing for bacteria and nitrate is the first thing we recommend on any older Watertown well, and regular well water testing afterward tells you whether anything is changing. A well inspection pairs that lab work with a check of the cap, casing, pump, tank and wiring, which is also what most lenders want at a sale.
Homes in the Rock River lowlands need the well casing to finish above the regional flood elevation, and older wells here sometimes do not. Water well repair can fix a low or damaged casing, and well rehabilitation through our Watertown well development service can bring back a well that has lost flow to scale or sediment. Old farm wells that are no longer used need well abandonment, filled and sealed to state rules.
For pump checks and well maintenance between those bigger jobs, our water well service in Watertown covers the routine visits.
This company started with John Herr Sr. buying a rig in 1964. John Jr. and his wife Marcia built it into a full drilling business, incorporated in 1969, and the family has run it ever since. Today Nathan, Adam, DJ and Kendel own it together, and Nathan is the one drilling wells.
We are licensed by the Wisconsin DNR and fully insured, and we treat a rural Watertown job the same as one ten minutes from the shop. Many of our neighbors out here also run agricultural and livestock wells, and we drill those too. If you are comparing results from a residential well drilling near me search, ask each contractor what they found in the wells next to yours. We look that up before we quote. The same family crew handles residential wells in Milwaukee County and new wells in Muskego.
Our hours are 8 to 5, Monday through Friday. We are not a 24-hour emergency service, but you will get a callback within 24 hours and a quote within 48.
Around Watertown we also drill in Johnson Creek, Ixonia, Lebanon and Reeseville, and east toward Oconomowoc and Dousman. These nearby pages cover the Lake Country side.
Most homes inside the city are on municipal water. Most residential well drilling Watertown homeowners ask us for is in the surrounding towns, such as Emmet, Shields, Lebanon and the Town of Watertown, where private wells are the norm.
It varies by parcel. The sandstone and dolomite here are not capped by shale the way they are toward Milwaukee, so many wells reach good water at moderate depth. Before we quote residential well drilling Watertown properties, we check state records for nearby wells.
Yes. Nitrate is the most common concern on wells surrounded by cropland. We collect samples for a certified lab and test for bacteria and nitrate at minimum, and we recommend repeating the test regularly.
It can. Wisconsin rules require a well casing to end above the regional flood elevation. If an older casing sits too low or is damaged, we can extend or repair it so floodwater cannot get into the well.
Sometimes, if the yield and the pump are sized for both. When livestock demand is high we often recommend a separate well so the house never runs short. We will look at the numbers with you before deciding.
We return calls within 24 hours and send quotes within 24 to 48 hours, Monday through Friday.
Unused wells need to be filled and sealed by a licensed contractor. We remove the equipment, grout the hole from the bottom up and file the state report.
Yes. We repair and replace pumps, pressure tanks and controls on any private well, whoever drilled it.
We serve Watertown and the farm towns around it in Jefferson and Dodge counties. Our shop is at W295 Herr Road, Dousman, WI 53118.
Call or send a note about your lot, your old well and what the property needs. We will call back within a day and give you a straight answer.
