GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE

Typical springs in Rutherford County, Tenn. Continued
Approximate yield
Openings
Remarks
Temperature
(°F.)
Use
Variability
Date of
measurement
(1927)
No. on
Plate 4
Gallons a
minute
Character
Number
Pumped about 100 gallons a minute for periods of several
hours; perennial spring.
Submerged by high stages of Stone River. Water
has slight content of hydrogen sulphide.
Perennial spring.
Yield increases and water becomes very turbid after
heavy rain; direction of flow N. 70° E.
Sink-hole conduit to large solution
channel.
1
X
50.
1,000±
...do'-
...do ....
1
2
404
406
62
61
62
Drinking, medicinal.
Stock . ..
Aug. 7
Aug. 10
do.
Bedding-plane channels.
Sink-hole conduit to large solution
channel.
Bedding-plane solution channel.
Sink hole 75 yards long, 20
yards wide, 20 feet deep.
Sink hole 50 feet in diameter
and 15 feet deep.
2 1
- do.
Water turbid. Probably underground cut-off across
river meander.
Aug. 7
...do
1
1
60
T^r/iK&Kl'Gr jQAasATial
do ........ .....
. _ do . _____ .
do
do
-.do
Aug. 11
Aug. 9
Sept. 15
VerysmalL
1
1
Large bedding-plane solution
channel.
1
411
413
416
417
418
426
428
Water contains small amount of hydrogen sulphide.
/Permanent head of Bushnell Creek. Yield increases
I and water becomes very turbid after long local rain.
(Yield and turbidity vary less abruptly than in No.
I 539.
Tabulated yield is pumpage. Natural flow of spring
increases and water becomes very turbid after
heavy rain. Reported maximum yield 700 gallons
a minute; reported minimum 200 gallons a minute.
Formerly medicinal.
60.5
None. .............
}. do .... ...
i2,500± .
\5,000+
JlOO __
INone
200-700 ....
Solution channels along joints
1
2
438
"439
Probably seasonal .....
61
Domestic, stock...
Aug. 7
-.do
No flow
visible.
100- .
Solution channels with roof
collapsed along joints.
Bedding-plane channels ___
4
2
443
444
Perennial spring. Water becomes turbid after rain
to the southeast.
Drains radially into large sink hole.
Yield increases and water becomes very turbid a few
hours after heavy rains.
61
Stock... __ ... ...
Seasonal, probably intermittent.
Flashy, seasonal.. __
Aug. 9
Aug. 11
15
6,000±- _
No flow
visible.
250 _
Bedding-plane solution channels.
Sink note 75 yards wide, 200
yards long, 50 feet deep.
Sink-hole pool 75 yards in diameter.
1
1
446
449
do
......
Stock _ . .........
.... .do .....
Aug. 8
1
1
410
454
Large seasonal fluctuation. During drought of 1925
spring was pumped by city of Murfreesboro 2,250
§ aliens a minute with drawdown of 18 feet in
hours.