Backyard Bores & Geotech Drilling Pty Ltd

Backyard Bores & Geotech Drilling Pty Ltd are your water bore and geotech drilling specialists in the Mackay and Moranbah to Bowen regions since 2002 We have extensive experience in the following: - Drilling and casing water bores for households, rural and domestic needs - Cleaning household bores, rejuvinating by removing sand and silt build up - Contaminated soil/sand sampling including asbestos with equipment decon (Environmental Management Register and Contaminated Land Register listed sites) - Installing piezometer monitoring wells up to 50m depth - NDD, SPT (Standard Penetration Testing), DCP (Dynamic Cone Penetrometer), Geoprobe and push tubes, split spoon and auger sampling (AS1289, AS1726-2017, ASTM D3441 - ASTM D1586 - 08a) - 4" ID and 6" ID Hollow stem augers and 6" continuous flight augers available - Hydro carbon and PFAS / PFOA (fire fighting foam) contaminated soil sampling and environmental drilling - Well development using a combination of over pumping, surging or air lifting to protect the natural water sample - Deep earthing, drilling for installation of earthing rods at substations - Downhole camera inspections and video reports - Decommissioning bores & wells - Test pumping of bores to Australian Standard AS2368–1990 from 2 hours to 2 days in duration - Water level logging long and short term - Complete project management of your drilling and sampling needs