However, if the house is started or worse yet, near completion and a dry hole was drilled it could be quite unnerving. Some areas in Washtenaw county are designated well first by the local health department. If you are hoping to do a well later in the building process, you should at least check Cribley Drilling Company to see if your site is located in a known good area for finding water. This occurs rarely if your well contractor is experienced. The area in which the well is drilled can have a large effect on success too.
Some areas are simply difficult areas to find water.
If we drill a dry well in a sand or gravel formation, we do not ordinarily charge the customer. We would simply start over and hopefully find water on the second try. If we do not find a water bearing formation in sand or gravel and drill a reasonable distance into the bedrock with no success, then a reduced rate would be charge to the customer. Then, assuming that the customer still wanted to continue, a new site would be agreed upon and another attempt would be made to complete a successful well. In Michigan, we are fortunate to have an abundant supply of water that consists of huge aquifers that are sometimes interconnected.