A long time ago, my family had a drilled well, it suddenly started putting out less and less water, so my dad, this was back in the sixties, went to the hardware store and got a stick or two of dynamite.
He took the well cap off, attached a weight from an old window to the stick of dynamite with a three foot cord, lite it, dropped it into the well, and a few minutes after the explosion, around 150 feet or so down, we had more water than we knew what to do with.
My dad was fracking well before the word fracking was ever used. And he was not alone.
Today, thanks to the BATF, the EPA, the FBi, and a bunch of other federal know it alls, frackin a well is no longer an option cause you can’t buy dynamite.
I was talking to a preacher yesterday, we were talking about federal intrusions into our lives, he said; “______ there is a special place in hell for bureaucrats.”
I agree with him, God has to have a special place of torment reserved for the pond scum who have ruined our country and our lives, under the color of law.
I know I'm distracting from your story, but did your Dad put a large hunk of lead in your family water well?
For your info, your Dad was following a long established practice.
Fracturing can be traced to the 1860s, when liquid (and later, solidified) nitroglycerin (NG) was used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
http://www.spe.org/jpt/print/archives/2010/12/10Hydraulic.pdf