Artesian wells — Montreal & the North Shore
Your water, from the bore to the tap
From our Ahuntsic shop, our rigs work from Laval to the Laurentians: bedrock drilling, submersible pumps, water treatment. One crew for the whole water line of your property.
The drilling logbook
Six trades, one water line
A well is not a hole: it is a drilled bore, a pump sized to the house, water that meets standards. Each page below explains the work as we do it on site.
Artesian well drilling
Down-the-hole hammer, steel casing and well development: the complete bore, from staking to intake.
Submersible pump installation
Submersible pump, drop pipe, pressure tank and clean cable runs: an installation sized to the house.
Well pump repair
No water at the tap: we measure amps, pressure and resistance before concluding — never the other way around.
Well water treatment
Iron, manganese, hardness, bacteria: the equipment is chosen after the lab test, not before.
Well hydrofracturing
A slow well every summer: pressurized water opens the bedrock fractures, and flow is measured before and after.
Well disinfection
Chlorine at the casing collar, full purge and a fresh test: the complete protocol, bottle in hand.
The house
A shop by the Rivière des Prairies, rigs ready at dawn
The lowlands around Montreal hide twenty metres of clay before the rock. North of the river, the rock rises fast and the aquifers change character every few kilometres. We read the ground before we drill: neighbours' well logs, map of surficial deposits, depth of the till.
- Down-the-hole hammer drilling, 6 in. steel casing
- Submersible pumps 4 in. and 6 in., constant-pressure drives
- Water treated to test results, not to a guess
- Rigs leave the yard at 6:30 a.m., Laval or Saint-Sauveur
Clients
What the water says at their place
Drilling is a trade you judge years later, when the pump holds and the analysis stays clean. Here is what clients from Oka to Mascouche report back.
A 41-metre bore, twenty of them in bedrock. Three days of work, the yard cleaned every evening, and the water test passed on the first try.
The pump died Sunday night. Diagnosis over the phone, technician Monday at 7 a.m., switch and contactor replaced on the spot. Only one night without a shower.
After three summers of rationing, hydrofracturing took the well from 4 to 11 litres per minute. Measured before and after, numbers in hand.
Yellowing water and a metallic taste: full analysis, then a softener calibrated to OUR results, not an average. The fixtures stopped staining.
Areas
Where the rigs go
Based in Ahuntsic-Cartierville, we cross the bridge north every morning. Three corridors, nine municipalities, one phone number.
Each sector has its geology: thick clay over limestone in Laval, rock close to the surface in Oka and Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, deep overburden in Blainville. The sector pages tell you what that means for your well.
Laval
Laurentides
Lanaudière
A well project in mind? Let's read your land.
Send the cadastre number or the address: we check neighbouring well records and call you back with a plan, a schedule and a straight answer.