GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE
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Typical wells in Rutherford County, Tenn. Continued<br />
[Nos. 436 and 459 dug and drilled; No, 4S1 bored; No. 465 dug; all others drilled]<br />
Water-bearing beds<br />
8<br />
O<br />
d<br />
Remarks<br />
Use of water<br />
Temperature<br />
CF.)<br />
Yield<br />
(gallons<br />
a<br />
minute)<br />
Method of lift<br />
Water<br />
level<br />
above<br />
or<br />
below<br />
surface<br />
(feet)<br />
Depth below<br />
surface<br />
(feet)<br />
No. on<br />
Plate 4<br />
Geologic horizon<br />
Character of<br />
material<br />
Yielded so-called black sulphur water for about<br />
2 years after drilling, but water is now clear,<br />
though highly charged with hydrogen sulphide.<br />
Well No. 4. A minor water-bearing bed possibly<br />
exists at depth of 350 feet.<br />
Ultimate capacity 5 gallons a minute. Some<br />
water from soft limestone at 220 feet.<br />
Well No. 2. Capacity increases and becomes<br />
turbid after heavy rains.<br />
Open well 18 feet in diameter and 23 feet deep,<br />
with drilled hole 8 inches in diameter in bottom<br />
to total depth of 86 feet.<br />
Pumps dry in a few minutes.<br />
60<br />
-60<br />
Murfreesboro<br />
limestone.<br />
Be dding-plane<br />
crevice<br />
Near bottom.<br />
432<br />
60<br />
10-12...<br />
5<br />
Airlift .<br />
-10<br />
-10<br />
-30<br />
..do ... .<br />
do ...<br />
.... .do.. -<br />
.-do.. ........<br />
80 __ __<br />
65-70.. ....<br />
433<br />
434<br />
60<br />
do<br />
Solution channels. .<br />
Airlift ... ..... .....<br />
None<br />
o<br />
1<br />
AH<br />
i<br />
None _ . -<br />
75-300-<br />
10<br />
Soft limestone..<br />
50,65......<br />
46,55 __ ..<br />
435<br />
436<br />
... -do .....<br />
Limited<br />
Airlift .......<br />
-30<br />
Below Murfreesboro<br />
limestone<br />
(?).<br />
Murfrees boro<br />
limestone.<br />
240<br />
437<br />
Group of 5 stand-by wells; several water-bearing<br />
beds between 60 and 200 feet in depth.<br />
Drawdown reported as 40 feet pumping 250<br />
gallons a minute from each well.<br />
Drawdown reported 48 feet pumping about 200<br />
gallons a minute.<br />
60<br />
250ea...<br />
.do ....<br />
-10<br />
Solution channels- .<br />
60-75- .....<br />
440<br />
60<br />
200<br />
.do.. ............<br />
Domestic, stock _<br />
-17<br />
-60<br />
Murfreesboro<br />
limestone,<br />
.-do. _ ... ...<br />
Lebanon limestone<br />
Ridley limestone..<br />
Ridley (?) limestone,<br />
do<br />
Murfrees boro<br />
limestone.<br />
Ridley (?) limestone.<br />
Murfrees bo[ro<br />
limestone.<br />
Solution crevice ....<br />
237.<br />
95<br />
Near bottom.<br />
32<br />
Near bottom.<br />
... ..do. .<br />
441<br />
442<br />
Solution channel clogged with silt.<br />
Stock.. ___<br />
Bucket and rope ___<br />
-30<br />
-25<br />
-45<br />
-40±<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
Solution channel<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
channel.<br />
Solution crevice ....<br />
445<br />
447<br />
448<br />
Other wells of the vicinity are 30 to 75 feet deep.<br />
5±<br />
3 ___ .<br />
6 ....<br />
-25±<br />
-10<br />
.....do. ... .<br />
..do ..<br />
110 ____<br />
451<br />
452<br />
453<br />
Water very salty and unusable.<br />
Formerly used for boiler feed at pencil mill.<br />
......<br />
5-10<br />
Steam force pump .....<br />
-35<br />
-10<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
Solution channel<br />
100 ....<br />
Near bottom.<br />
456<br />
457
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