Working wells for working land
Cattle do not reschedule their water, and a crop misses its window exactly once. The Crossroads runs on agricultural wells, from two-trough stock setups to the irrigation bores Jackson County rice ground has pumped for generations, and Victoria Water Well Co drills and services the full range against the published table.
Stock wells: designed around the herd, not the house
A stock well earns its keep on reliability, so the design choices lean that direction: storage capacity ahead of demand so animals drink by gravity through a failure, float systems that cannot stick open and drain a tank overnight and pump sizing that respects both the herd and the sand the well draws from. For pasture beyond practical power, solar pumping with storage has become the honest recommendation, priced at $3,500 to $9,000 for panel, pump and tank on the published table.
Ranch country around Nursery, Goliad and Cuero also carries generations of undocumented wells, and part of our service work is simply measuring and recording what exists, so the ranch has a file before the failure instead of archaeology after it.
Irrigation bores: gallons per minute is the design
Irrigation drilling starts from the demand math: acres, crop, delivery method and the flow rate they add up to. That number sets bore diameter, casing size, screen length and pump class, and it is why irrigation wells span $8,000 to $20,000 with the largest bores beyond it. The Gulf Coast Aquifer delivers for operations across this region, and the state’s well records show what nearby agricultural bores actually produce, which grounds the projection in evidence rather than salesmanship. Groundwater districts in each county manage the resource, and the paperwork, notice, registration and the driller’s state report, rides inside our price.
Ranch and irrigation questions
What does a stock well for a cattle place cost?
Livestock wells run $8,000 to $20,000 on the published table. A modest herd well on decent sand sits at the low end; bigger bores and high-volume pumps push toward the top. The design starts from head count and trough layout, not from a standard package.
Is solar really dependable enough for stock water?
With storage, yes. The panel pumps all day into a storage tank and the tank carries the herd through night and weather. For pasture a half mile from power, solar plus storage routinely beats the cost of trenching electric line, and the operating cost afterward is zero.
How big does an irrigation well need to be?
It is a gallons-per-minute question answered from acreage, crop and delivery method. Pivot irrigation wants hundreds of gallons per minute from a large-diameter bore; a garden and orchard place wants a fraction of that. We run the sizing math with your numbers before anything gets priced, because oversizing wastes capital and undersizing wastes a season.
Our old irrigation well has lost capacity. Rehab or redrill?
Test first. Capacity loss can be a worn pump, a plugging screen or a declining water level, and each has a different fix at a different price. Rework runs $3,000 to $8,000 when the casing is sound; when it is not, we show the redrill math next to the rehab math and the operation picks.
Scope the water your land needs
Tell us the head count or the acreage and where the land sits. We rough the demand math with you and put an honest range on it before any rig money gets discussed.