When I first moved into my suburb, it was the very first subdivision in 1999. I didn't buy my block till 2002. It was once someone's old horse agistment farm.
Anyhows, all the properties around here all had wells from the days before electricity and bores from the days afterward, before piped water came along. Big bores too I note, just down the street was a bore that had a 24 inch wide pipe coming out of the ground. Over the road at Ian's old place, his grandfather,s old cottage stood and it had a disused well full of bicycles and furniture and other rubbish. It had a large concrete surround, probably the size of a septic tank in diameter. I believe it was a well just like that where two young boys got into trouble, one drowning. Apparently it was big news in its day because there was a massive rescue effort mounted.
Down the other end of my street was a poultry farm, a wholesale nursery, a skip bin business, and lots of hobby farms. The only thing left now is the soils ain't soils, three farms and WA brickmatch salvage yard.
It's almost all houses now.
The developers never dug out the wells or bores. They just went over them with bulldozers and covered them with fill. Hate to have one of them in my backyard.
The skip bin bloke buried so much rubbish on his bloke before selling it to developers, that I'm surprised that they could build houses on it. He must of saved almost a million on not having to pay tip fees. He was constantly out in his paddocks with his bulldozer burying whatever he brought home in his skip bins, I tell you.
Anyway the point is there were lots of wells. Each farm had at least one. Just google Earth areas like Orange Grove or the other end of my suburb over near Crystal Brook Rd, etc that haven't been developed and you'll see evidence of them every where.
We're talking Needle in a Haystack with old wells, unless you have a specific property in mind. IMO
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