Geologic Boreholes drilling for new Olympic rifle training range

Geologic Boreholes were contacted by the owner of the existing A35 road tunnel at Charmouth in Devon. This grade 2 listed tunnel has been unused for many years and was recently purchased for development. This 67M tunnel is being converted into a rifle range that will be used for training in the upcoming 2012 Olympics, and provide an interesting centre for local people and holiday makers to make use of for years to come.

Having mains electricity and sewage at the tunnel meant that the only main service missing was water. A borehole is the owners preferred method of water provision to the site as getting mains to the tunnel would have been incredibly expensive. The customer is also keen to make the site as green and self sufficient as possible, and a borehole goes a long way towards achieving this goal.

A 60M borehole will be drilled to provide water to the cafe, 50M range and covered 100M range. A submersible pump will pump water to storage tanks above the tunnel which will in turn gravity feed back into the tunnel.

This is an ambitious building project which is expected to be completed by spring next year. Geologic are proud to be involved with this exiting development and are very pleased to be a sponsor of the tunnel.

More information will be added as the project progresses’, drilling is expected to commence in mid November 2009, visit The Tunnel website to follow the project.

We have also written more case studies on our clients, where we have drilled boreholes for a hotel, kennels and irrigation project.