Water Bore Drilling & Installation in Perth

The northern corridor is the most straightforward drilling ground in the Perth metropolitan area — pale free-draining sand over a shallow superficial aquifer, on flat blocks with room to work.

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Water Bore Drilling & Installation around Perth

From Joondalup north through Wanneroo the ground is coastal-plain sand: loose, pale, free-draining, with limestone appearing as outcrop and as cut retaining walls between levels. A bore here is a sediment job in the ordinary sense — drilled, cased with slotted screen, gravel-packed and air-developed until the water runs clear. Because the corridor sits low relative to the rest of the metropolitan area, it is at the shallower end of the published Perth depth range rather than the deeper end.

Access is rarely the constraint it is elsewhere. Estate blocks are wide-fronted and flat, side gates are generous, and a rig can usually reach the spot the bore should be rather than the spot it can get to — which matters, because bore position is chosen against where the retic manifold needs to be, not against where the truck fits.

A flat coastal-plain block of pale free-draining sand with tuart, banksia, a grass tree and a cut-limestone wall, cream brick-and-tile housing beyond — illustrative example

Permits and your local government area rules

The watering rules here are the metropolitan ones and there is nothing corridor-specific to add: two rostered days a week by house number, before 9am or after 6pm, and no sprinklers at all from 1 June to 31 August.

Source: WA Government — check garden bore water restrictions — confirm current requirements with your local government area.

Timing and lead times in Perth

Published Perth timing is about a day to drill, case and develop the hole and another day for the pump, with about a week start to finish.

Our Perth service area

Joondalup, Wanneroo and the surrounding northern coastal suburbs.

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