About
Built by someone who has run the pump hoist.
“The software a water district can buy is usually written by people who have never pulled a pump out of the ground, never rehabilitated a well, and never installed one.”
So how would they know?
How a well behaves. What it produced before a rehabilitation and what it produces after. Which tests have to be run at start-up to prove the machine is operating as designed, and which ones set the new baselines once it is — design flow, specific capacity, vibration, resonance and harmonics, the well loss coefficient.
Those are not reporting fields. They are the measurements a well is judged by, and a platform that has never been asked to produce one does not know which of them matters, how they move, or what it means when two of them move in opposite directions.
BoreLogix was built the other way round. The arithmetic came first, out of twenty-two years of doing the work, and the software was written to carry it.
That is what Waterwell IQ is: the theory and the practice in one place. The why and the how. The textbook, and the well that does not read like the textbook — combined into one record and applied to a real machine under real conditions.
What that buys the person responsible for the asset is peace of mind. Not a feeling — a position: every figure in the record came from somewhere you can point to, and the ones that did not are labeled as such, so nothing in front of a board rests on a number somebody assumed.
Ryan Johnson, Founder and CEO
Grade D5 · Grade T3
Twenty-two years on municipal water wells, and most of them at the wellhead. Two California water districts, more than 100 domestic potable wells and over 400 booster pumps — maintained, serviced, repaired, designed and equipped.
It started in the trenches. Routine maintenance first, then full rehabilitation projects: running the field equipment himself and writing the scope of work that governed it. He has operated pump hoists and cranes. He has run mechanical downhole brushing and bailing, chemical treatment, injection and swabbing, downhole casing hydrojetting, dual-swab airlifting, Sonar-Jet, ArcWave, BoreBlast and AirBurst. There is not a rehabilitation method in common use that he specifies today without having first-hand knowledge and experience in running it himself.
“BoreLogix was built by someone who has done the work — thousands of hours on real wells, real pumps, real failures, and real recoveries.”
His work now sits upstream of the crew: the full scope of work for rehabilitation projects, pump design and selection, critical speed and reed frequency analysis, pump efficiency testing, engineered CAD drawings, as-builts and discharge manifold specifications.
He holds a Water Distribution Operator certification at Grade D5 — the highest grade the California State Water Resources Control Board issues — and a Water Treatment Operator certification at Grade T3. He studied Water Technology with a degree from Mt. San Jacinto College. Across those twenty-two years he has worked alongside the engineers, hydrologists, consultants, contractors and manufacturers who set the standards in this field, people whose own careers in groundwater run thirty and forty years deep.
What we build
A well is not a point on a map with attributes attached. It is a depth-indexed vertical profile with a performance curve that moves seasonally and a service life that outlasts everyone who touches it. Most asset platforms in this market descend from mapping software and model it the first way, which is why they cannot answer the questions that matter.
And the platform never states something it does not know. Where a measurement is missing it says so rather than filling the gap with a plausible number — because a district engineer authorizing six figures of work is entitled to see exactly which parts of the answer rest on evidence and which do not.
Waterwell IQ is the first BoreLogix platform: the system of record for the water well — construction, performance, rehabilitation and compliance, held for the whole life of the asset.