Water Bore Drilling in Bilbul
Near Bilbul and Widgelli the water is not only shallow, it moves with the season: a 2005 NSW report says groundwater tables tend to be higher in March than in September. A bore measured or tested in one month will read differently from the same bore in another.
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Water Bore Drilling around Bilbul
The report is a May 2005 NSW Department of Primary Industries analysis of farming in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. It lists Widgelli/Bilbul among the places where the highest watertables were less than 1 m from the surface, and it says: "Seasonally, groundwatertables tend to be higher in March than in September, except when there is high rainfall in winter." It does not separate Bilbul from Widgelli, so both are served from this page. It is a 2005 reading for a wide area, not a measurement at a property.
For a bore near Bilbul that makes the date part of the job. A depth-to-water or pumping-test result means little without the month it was taken beside it. The 2016 NSW fact sheet says a pumping test can be carried out by a driller or some pump suppliers and that its analysis is best done by a suitably qualified person such as a hydrogeologist. Ask who will run yours, who will read it, and for the date on the result.
Permits and Griffith City Council rules
The approval to construct a bore is the NSW Department's, shared with WaterNSW: it says you need a water supply work approval to construct a groundwater bore, household bores included. This site has not read a Griffith City Council rule for bores, so ask the Council whether it adds anything.
Source: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Basic landholder rights bore; read 6 October 2026. — confirm current requirements with Griffith City Council.
Our Bilbul service area
An enquiry from Bilbul is passed on to an independent local provider, who gets in touch to look at the site.
See all Water Bore Drilling in Griffith. We also work in Widgelli, Tharbogang and Nericon, among the other villages we list. Related pages: water bore drilling, bores for the home and garden, getting a bore approved, bore water safety, testing a new bore and closing down an old bore.
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