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A Preview of the 2009 PGWA Winter Conference by Todd Dillan, Winter Conference Program Chairman and Todd Giddings, Education Committee Chairman The Pennsylvania Ground Water Association’s 2009 Winter Conference will be held on January 29 and 30 at the Harrisburg-Hershey Holiday Inn in Grantville. Mark your calendar now. The proposed program has technical presentations on well grouting, how to increase the yield of bedrock wells, diesel engine preventative maintenance, marketing your business in a slow economy, down-the-hole air hammers, water treatment, how to read a pump curve, accounting for profit, the NGWA pump cost calculator, and the McEllhiney lecture. There will be concurrent technical sessions on the opportunities for you to become a geothermal contractor. Both closed loop and open loop geothermal system opportunities and drilling methods will be presented. These sessions are designed to give you the information you need to decide if you want to become a geothermal contractor. Steadily rising prices for heating oil, natural gas, and propane are causing more homeowners to choose geothermal systems for their home. Geothermal drilling is an opportunity for you to grow your water-well drilling business using the equipment you already own. The complete program for the 2009 PGWA Winter Conference will be in the Fall issue of the PA Driller and on this Web site in November, 2008.
Two drilling companies with three air-rotary drill rigs and two service trucks are completing the 25,000 feet of closed-loop geothermal boreholes for this central Pennsylvania project.
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