Featured ARTICLES
17 Well Development Using
Compressed Air
By Mike Price
Are you using the right amount of air,
tools, or time to properly develop the
well?
23 What Makes a Good Driller's
Helper?
By Roger E. Renner, MGWC, NGWAF
We asked a fourth-generation Master
Groundwater Contractor what to look
for when it's time to hire a helper.
27 2021 Heavy Equipment Directory
Find out what you need to know about
the industry's manufacturers of heavy
machinery and their offerings.
Sponsored CONTENT
24 Mud Puppy: Clean as Mud
40 The Blake Group: Blake
Equipment: Expanding Product
Offerings to the Drilling Industry
September 2021
Vol. 75, No. 9
waterwelljournal.com
About the cover: McCarthy Drilling LLC drills a 345-foot
residential well near Pleasant Hope, Missouri, that produced 50
gallons per minute. It's an open hole bedrock well and approxi-
mately 7 feet to limestone producing water from the Roubidoux
sandstone. McCarthy Drilling's summertime schedule began at
5:30 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m. or later. As of mid-July, the com-
pany was running three crews operating REICHdrill rigs with a
backlog of 150-160 wells. McCarthy Drilling, serving southwest
Missouri and based in Halfway, Missouri, usually covers a 100-mile
radius but recently expanded in some areas to roughly 200 miles.
Photo courtesy Jeremy McCarthy, owner of McCarthy Drilling.
2 n September 2021 WWJ
75 YEARS
