Our family has been serving the water needs of the area since 1919. We endeavor to provide you with the latest technology in maintaining the most valuable commodity on the earth.
We use air rotary and cable tool rigs and can drill wells from 6" to 24" in diameter. Bentonite or cement grouting is used to prevent surface contamination into the well system. Cleaning and reconditioning of older wells is a specialty, usually resulting in bringing the casing about the ground to result in a more sanitary well system than when first drilled.
Dillan Well Drilling uses only the most reliable products and we invite you to stop by our store and workshop to view the items available for your water system. We carry a complete inventory of water well supplies, and parts are on stock for everything that we sell.
Service to the customer is the reason for our success, states John W. Dillan, president of the company. When someone calls with a problem, we try to take care of it the same day. All trucks are supplied with pumps, tanks, and piping to handle most day to day work.
History
Founder George W. Dillan, John's grandfather, who left Pennsylvania for "greener pastures" to work in the fields of North and South Dakota during the early 1900s. By 1919, he returned to Darlington, a small farming and mining village at the time, to start a family and a business.
For his coal testing and water well drilling work, Dillan first used a steam powered, wooden 32 Star rig, which was pulled to each site with a team of horses. A few years later, he commissioned the Star Drilling Machine Co. in Akron, OH to build him the first truck-mounted drilling rig from that factory. It was mounted on a 1917 Graham-Burnstein rubber tired truck.
George's son, Carl, had grown up in the company and after returning from service during World War II, he started his own company. Father and son work in the same area but were good competitors. After his father's death in 1950, Carl W. bought out his equipment. The third generation, John W. Dillan, had been involved with the company since 1959. Upon Carl W. retiring in 1976, John W. purchased the business and assets and he is now president of the company.
The fourth generation is now taking over. Todd W. and Mark J. are Vice Presidents. Todd takes care of the geothermal heat drilling and water well drilling operations. Mark J. is in charge of the water treatment and pump service division.
Today, George W. would be amazed at the progress made in this company. The old steam-power rig has been replaced with two T-3W rotary rigs, two cable tool drill rigs, two rig tenders, three pump hoists, water treatment van, and four additional service trucks. The service area is now over a hundred-mile radius.
