GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE

Typical springs in Cheatham County, Tenn, Continued
00
o
Approximate yield
Openings
Remarks
Temperature
(°F.)
Use
Variability
Date of
measurement
(1927)
No. on
Plate 4
Gallons a
minute
Character
Number
Natural well leading to underground
channel.
Yield increases and water becomes turbid about 12
hours after rain to the south.
Perennial spring.
Roadside spring and watering trough.
Turbid after several days' continuous rain. Emergency
supply for Ashland city. Reported minimum
discharge 100 gallons a minute.
Aug. 21
1
1
239
241
59
58
59
58
Drinking, stock ...
... ..do.... ....
.....do ......... .....
Aug. 20
Aug. 21
Aug. 20
25
20
1-2
100
.....do
.... .do...
.... .do ................. .....
1
242
245
247
58
59
57
58
Domestic, stock ...
Domestic, stock _
.... .do ....... ...
Probably seasonal
.....do ....... .......
... ..do ..............
do
...do....
do .
Aug. 22
50
1±
10
5±
. .do...
Perennial spring.
Do.
1
Many.
1
2
249
250
252
256
Used locally as medicinal water.
Discharge may percolate through creek gravel in
large part.
Medicinal sulphur spring. So-called freestone spring
near by has its source in weathered zone of rock.
59
57
Aug. 22
do .
No flow.
5-8
1A±
Joint and bedding-plane channels.
Slumped roof of underground
channel.
61
259
266
268
1 See analysis, pp. 114-115.