Definitely! Though the summer I used kveik yeast so only needed to get down to 100F. The rest of the year, I usually stall around 85F and move it to a freezer to chill the rest of the way. I have considered using a pre-chiller but that would mean severely throttling my flow unless I splurged on another hydra. My next attempt, I think I will loop my hose (about 50 ft) in an ice bath. I have no idea how much heat will transfer through the hose, but it is worth a shot.
I also deal with hot ground water and while I've never tried that...that isn't going to work.
Here's how I fixed the issue, cheaply.
Buy a cheap immersion pump,
this is the one I use.
Next, locate a five gallon bucket. You're a homebrewer, you have many of these. Last, you'll need some tubing and the appropriate fitting to connect the output side of your pump to the input on your chiller.
On brew day, you chill as normal with your hot ground water until you approach diminishing returns. Once that is accomplished, you place your immersion pump in your five gallon bucket, then run just enough waste water off of your chiller into your bucket to prime the pump. With this done, fill your bucket with the appropriate volume of ice.* Next, you place the exhaust hose from your chiller into your bucket of ice water and attach the pump to the input on your chiller. Lastly, you turn on your pump.
You're now chilling your batch with a closed loop of recirculating ice water. Your temps will plummet, especially if you have a whirlpool rig. It's really easy to overshoot your pitching temp, especially with ales.
I hope you found this useful. It's an issue that I struggled with for years and now that I'm using this method, I feel like I'm getting away with a fast one whenever I brew in July or August.
*During the summer, when I keep the faucet of my shower all the way to the left, I use 10lbs of ice to chill to ale pitching temps and 20lbs of ice to hit lager pitching temps. That's an added 3-5 bucks per batch. That's not an inconsequential figure, but I'm happy to pay it if it allows me to use the yeast that I want to use, pitch that yeast without delay, and brew the beer I want to drink.