Borehole Installers Kempton Park | Boorgate Kempton Park

Kempton Park sits on Karoo cover with dolerite intrusions over older rocks, on the edge of the East Rand basin.

Dolerite contacts are the productive targets, and the airport corridor brings dense services and commercial demand.

What Is Under Kempton Park

The formations below are what a rig actually meets on a Kempton Park property, and between them they govern the depth, the casing requirement and what the hole will realistically give you.

Formation	Where it sits	What it means for drilling
Karoo Supergroup sediments	Covering much of the East Rand basin	Sandstone, shale and tillite of variable and generally modest water-bearing capacity. Yields off the sediments alone are usually low.
Karoo dolerite sills and dykes	Intruded through the Karoo sequence	The contact zones are the prime targets. Where a hole intersects a dolerite contact, yields improve sharply.
Malmani dolomite and Witwatersrand rocks	Beneath the Karoo cover in parts of the area	Potentially high-yielding, but also where stability and mining-impact questions arise. Depth to it varies considerably.

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What That Means for Your Borehole

Dolerite contacts do the work here. The Karoo sediments between them yield very little, which is why siting matters.
Mining history is extensive across the East Rand, and water quality testing is the first thing to budget for rather than the last.
Depth to bedrock varies substantially, so a per-metre rate with a realistic expected range is the only honest way to quote.

Where We Work Around Kempton Park

Kempton Park central and Birchleigh
Glen Marais and Bonaero Park
The OR Tambo corridor
Norkem Park and Terenure approaches
Edenvale and Midrand boundaries
Industrial and logistics properties

What to Watch For Here

The airport corridor is densely serviced, which makes a proper services check before siting essential on commercial and logistics sites.

Karoo sediments yield very little on their own, so almost everything productive here is on a dolerite contact or a fracture zone.

What the Water Is Used For

Landscaping and grounds irrigation
Washbays and hard-surface cleaning
Non-potable process and cooling water
Standby supply for continuity of operations
Reducing a significant municipal water account

Wellpoint or Borehole?

Generally not viable. There is no consistent shallow sand aquifer here, and the Karoo sediments near surface give a driven point little to work with.

Water Quality in Kempton Park

A century of gold mining across the East Rand means sulphate, iron and dissolved metals turn up in groundwater in places, and acid mine drainage is a documented issue in parts of the basin. A full laboratory analysis before any use beyond irrigation is the sensible baseline here, not a precaution.

A water analysis is what turns that from a general expectation into a number for your specific hole, and treatment should be specified against the result rather than against the area's reputation.

Registration and Abstraction

Ekurhuleni requires boreholes to be registered with the municipality, and prohibits cross-connection between borehole water and the municipal supply. The National Water Act governs abstraction separately: domestic use generally falls under Schedule 1, larger volumes may require registration or authorisation from the Department of Water and Sanitation. Confirm the current requirement before drilling. Requirements change, so confirm your position before drilling.

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For the drilling process itself, the geology across the rest of the country and how a quote is put together, see Borehole Installers South Africa.

Borehole Prices in Kempton Park

Drilling is charged per metre, so depth drives the total. The ranges below are framed for local ground conditions and access.

Item	Indicative range	What moves it locally
Drilling, per metre	R450 - R1,050 /m	Karoo sediments drill reasonably fast; dolerite is hard. Depth varies widely across the basin.
uPVC casing, installed, per metre	R400 - R750 /m	Weathered Karoo sediments are unstable and casing through them is standard.
Mobilisation and site establishment	R2,500 - R9,500	Access and site conditions move this; a site visit settles it before quoting.
Water survey	R5,000 - R12,000	Targets structure rather than depth. Worth most where yield is fracture-dependent.
Yield testing	R3,500 - R15,000	Establishes the sustainable rate that pump selection depends on.
Pump, supplied and installed	R15,000 - R45,000	Greater depth means more head, which means a larger pump and heavier cable.
Storage and booster	R12,000 - R35,000	Needed wherever peak demand exceeds the borehole's sustainable rate.
Typical complete project	R70,000 - R190,000+	Everything above, excluding treatment, which depends entirely on the water analysis.

These are indicative ranges, not a quotation. They are compiled from published South African supplier and contractor pricing to give you a starting point for budgeting. They are not our rate card, and no figure here is a commitment.

Treat them as a broad guide only. Published borehole pricing in South Africa varies enormously - different 2026 guides quote per-metre drilling rates for the same province that differ by a factor of three - because depth, geology, access, specification, distance and fuel costs all move the number. Depth in particular is not known until the hole is finished. Figures generally exclude VAT unless noted, and change over time. Only an itemised written quote against your actual site means anything.

Kempton Park Borehole FAQs

Can a logistics site near OR Tambo use borehole water?

Commonly, for washbays, landscaping and non-potable use, and on a large site it makes a meaningful difference to the water account.

The services check before siting matters more here than almost anywhere. The corridor carries dense infrastructure and striking it is an expensive discovery.

What controls yield in Kempton Park?

Whether the hole intersects a dolerite contact or a fracture zone. The Karoo sediments between them are a weak aquifer and produce very little.

That makes siting the most valuable part of the budget here, and it is why nearby results can differ so sharply.

Is borehole water in Kempton Park safe given the mining history?

It needs testing rather than assuming. Gold mining across the East Rand has left elevated sulphate, iron and metals in some groundwater, and acid mine drainage is a documented problem in parts of the basin.

Plenty of holes here produce perfectly serviceable water. The only way to know which you have is a full laboratory analysis of your own borehole before any use beyond irrigation.

What controls whether a Kempton Park borehole produces?

Mostly whether it intersects a dolerite contact or a fracture zone. The Karoo sediments themselves are a weak aquifer and yield very little on their own.

That makes siting the most valuable part of the budget on this ground, and it is why two holes a short distance apart can return very different results.