About Jonathan Dalton

2nd generation of one of the founding directors 'Jonny' has approximately 12 years in the groundwater industry in various guises. Jonny worked in the Groundwater and Contaminated Land unit of the Environment Agency dealing with both regulation of groundwater abstraction licenses, then became a senior Geo-environmental Scientist for a large consulting engineers before moving on to become a director at Dales Water full time in 2009. Jonny has been involved in large water well supply projects for both sports clubs and water bottling facilities but delivers on projects of all sizes.
17 Dec 2013

Christmas Opening Times 2013

By | December 17th, 2013|News|

Over the Christmas period we are officially closed from the 20th December - 2nd January. Although we will be available for emergency breakdown cover during this time - if we do not answer the telephone please leave a message on the answer phone which will be regularly checked. We would like to take this opportunity [...]

21 Nov 2013

Water Treatment Demonstration Test Rig

By | November 21st, 2013|News|

Coming to a borehole and water treatment show near you; our new Water Treatment test rig including water storage, boosting utilising variable speed technology, treatment for iron and manganese, cartridge filtration, ultra violet purification and metering. Our test rig is designed to show the user the technology involved and what they might expect if they [...]

8 Nov 2013

New Private Water Supply Case Studies

By | November 8th, 2013|Case Studies, News|

We have just updated our case studies page with a sample of completed jobs that our team have worked on over the last 18 months including a strawberry farm, a dairy farm and a race course irrigation system. Each case study gives an overview of the location, why the business needed a private water supply [...]

10 Oct 2013

Tracked Drilling Rigs for Borehole Water Supplies

By | October 10th, 2013|Drilling Equipment, News|

Occasionally we use a tracked drilling rig to drill our borehole water supplies. Tracked machines have some distinct advantages, but also some disadvantages over conventional truck mounted machines. The tracked drilling rig we use is a small to medium size crawler mounted drilling rig. It is the most modern of the drilling rigs that we [...]

16 Sep 2013

Latest Projects Gallery

By | September 16th, 2013|News|

Over the past few months we have been working hard on a range of projects for both commercial, industrial and domestic customers. Consequently, we've collected some great pictures to showcase our work, equipment and in house technology which we thought we'd share in the gallery below. Each image has a brief description of what's happening so [...]

10 Sep 2013

Borehole Cooling: Using Groundwater to Cool Buildings & Infrastructure

By | September 10th, 2013|Borehole Information, News|

Uses of water are obvious – drinking, washing, irrigation and even leisure activities come to mind straight away but borehole water can also be used for other less obvious applications that can reduce the reliance on mains water supply saving the consumer considerable amounts of money. Many industrial and commercial (and for that matter domestic) [...]

10 Sep 2013

Saving Water: How Scarcity and Misuse Threatens Our Planet

By | September 10th, 2013|Groundwater|

Working day in day out with private water supplies and groundwater it's very much part of our job here at Dales Water to protect such a valuable resource. There's no better job satisfaction than informing people about their water and seeing the difference it makes to people’s lives when originally they only had a poor [...]

4 Sep 2013

Problems with Groundwater that might Require Water Treatment

By | September 4th, 2013|Groundwater, News|

As part of our full scale private water supply services Dales Water provide in-house water quality treatment / filtration requirements for a number of clients. For certain applications water treatment may be required to bring the water in line with drinking water requirements or to make sure it's fit for the proposed use. This is [...]

8 Aug 2013

Water Well Rehabilitation and Remediation

By | August 8th, 2013|News, Water Well Advice|

From time to time water wells might fail to produce the quantity or the quality of water they were once capable of; rather than abandon the well and incur the cost of a new one being drilled they can often be rehabilitated. Our experienced engineering team have worked on a number of water well / [...]

19 Jul 2013

Using Boreholes for Research and Exploratory Purposes

By | July 19th, 2013|Borehole Information, News|

Although the vast majority of boreholes we drill here at Dales Water are used for domestic or commercial purposes such as irrigation or agricultural use; from time to time we also drill them when their main use is for research or exploratory purposes. This can be for specific geophysical research organisations, Government Agencies or Universities [...]