GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE

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WILLIAMSON COUNTY Driller's log of well No. 1 on Jake Miller property [No. 117, pi. 4] . Feet Soil__________________________________ 0-3 Limestone; fresh water at 80 feet________________ ___ 3-121 Shale, green__________________________ 121-160 Shale, black (Chattanooga shale); salt water_______ 160-200 "Cap rock"__________________,_______--- __-_--- 200-220 Sandstone___________________________ 220-228 Limestone, white_______________________ 228-239 Cavity_________________________________________ 239-241 Sandstone..________:_________________ 241-255 Limestone_________________-____ 255-257 Driller's log of well No. 2 on Jake Mitter property [No. 118, pi. 4] Feet Soil..._____________________________ 0-8 Limestone; fresh water at 84 feet_____________________ 8-115 Shale, green. ____________ __ 115-155 Limestone, earthy_______________________________ 155-160 Shale, black (Chattanooga shale); salt water_________ 160-200 : "Cap rock"___________________________ 200-206 Shale, brown__________________________ 206-221 Limestone, white; 6-inch cavity at 228 feet.__________ 221-245 Sandstone____________.______________ _ 245-255 DriUer's partial log of Stewart & Terrett well No. 2 [No. 125, pi. 41 Soil. Feet Limestone_ _ ______________________________________ ? 58 Shale, black (Chattanooga shale)____________________ 58-84 Limestone, blue-gray____________________________ _ 84-104 Limestone, light brown, sandy near bottom__ _________ 104-114 Limestone, bluish-gray, sandy._______________________ 114-117 Limestone, bluish-gray_____________________________ 117-147 Limestone, gray, sandy____________--________-__--_-_ 147-153 WILLIAMSON COUNTY [Area, 586 square miles. Population, 22,8451 GENERAL FEATURES Williamson County, which occupies the south-central part of the region covered by this report (pi. 1), is bounded on the norfch by Cheatham and Davidson Counties, on the east by Rutherford County, and on the northwest by Dickson County. Its county seat, Franklin (population, 3,377), lies about 20 miles south of Nashville on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Like Sumner County, Williamson County is divided into two physiographic districts of approximately equal area by the Highland Rim escarpment, which trends nearly due south through its center. The western half of the county, most of which is drained northward by the South Fork and other branches of the Harpeth River, is a part
GROUND WATER JN NO^T^-^^EUAL TENNESSEE of the Highland Rim plateau (pp. 16-18). Its. naajoF ridge crests, remnants of the Highland Rim peneplain, increase in altitude from about 800 feet above sea level in the northwestern part of th» county to 1,020 feet in its southwest corner. None of these remnants are extensive, however, for the peneplain has been dissected^ by the closely spaced youthful valleys of a dendritic drainage pattern. Hence the topography is rather rugged, especially along the. southern boundary of the county, where the Harpeth and Duefc Rivers are striving for drainage mastery. The eastern half of the county, which constitutes a. part of the northern lobe of the Nashville Basin (p. 18), is drained northward by the Harpeth and West Harpeth Rivers. In their lower reaches these s»fereams kave; planed laterally and have cut valley floors half a mile to 3 miles wide at 620 to 670 feet above sea level, a stage which is correlative with the much more extensive planation by the Stone River in Rutherford County. Furthermore, they have reduced the interstream tracts to groups of submature hills and branching ridges, the bjghest of which, are in $he south-central part of the county and range from 1,165 to 1,250 feet a^oye se^ level. These hilly tracts are outliers of the Highland Rim plateau. The rocks that crop out in WiUiamson County constitute a rather full stratigraphic sequence from the St. Louis and Warsaw Hmestones of Mississippian age, to. the, Lebanon Uinestone,, of Lower Ordovician age (pp. 33-54). The youngest stratigraphic unit, which comprises the St. I*ouis and Warsaw limestones, is made up of thick-bedded, somewhat cherty limestone and craps out over an extensive tract along the western boundary of the county. It also caps the Mgher ridges a.a far eastward as the. Highland Rim escarpment but. is not known at any point east of the West. Harpetk River. (See, pi. 4.) However, visible exposures of the rock generally occur only qn the slopes of youthful valleys, for on the remnants of the Highland Rim peneplain it is overlain by residual clay and chert as much as 60 feet thick. The Warsaw limestone is underlain everywhere by the Fort Payne formation, which comprises thin beds of extremely cherty limestone and shale, sandy limestone, calcareous shale, and clay shale. These beds also 0ap outliers of the plateau in the north-central and sotuthrcentiral pajts of the county as well as the highest summits oj t|ie ridge that trends southeastward across the county between the Harpeth and West Harpeth fivers. In a few places,, as oa the slopes o$ Sugar- Riclge, in the south-central part, ol the county, thefije beds »?$ underlain by the New Providence shale, wflich consists of clay, sjiale, ancj lenses of massive, crinoida) limest,one. The Fort Payne formation, or the New Providence shale where that, formation is pyesen^ is under lain in all p&rts, of the county by the carbonaceous Cnattanqoga, sh,aje. This alrftbigr^pjbic horizon marker crops out as a narrow bancj in tine lowe? part of t&e Highland Rim escarpment and ifcg
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CONTENTS Pager -Abstract.__________
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OOHTBHTS V Ground water Continued.
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ABSTRACT This report describes brie
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GBOUND WATEB IN NOBTH-CENTBAL TENNE
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INTBODUCTION Q In addition to the w
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GEOGRAPHY O exist at several locali
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GEOGRAPHY / The annual range betwee
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Record lacking for 1882, 1887-88, 1
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GEOGRAPHY 13 In general there is so
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SURFACE FEATURES OF CENTRAL TENNESS
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StJBFACE FEATURES OF CENTRAL TENNES
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SURFACE FEATURES OF CENTRAL TENNESS
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STJBFACE FEATURES OF CENTRAL TENNES
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SURFACE FEATUKES OF CENTKAL TENNESS
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SPEINGS 89 blank sample of water sh
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SPRINGS ' 91 formation, which are k
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SPBINGS 93 roof above its channel i
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SPKINGS bearing channel very close
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ARTESIAN CONDITIONS 97 may be expec
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QUALITY OF GROUND WATER 101 of diss
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QUALIFY OF GROUND WATER 103 north-c
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QUALITY OF GROUND WATER 105 nesium
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QUALITY OF GROUND WATER 107 Temains
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QUALITY OF GROUND WATEB 109 undesir
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DATA waters in north-central Tennes
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QUALITY OF GROUND WATER in north-ce
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in north-central Tennessee Continue
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QUALITY OF GROUND WATER 121 more th
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CHEATHAM COUNTY 125 which are trave
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DAVIDSON COUNTY 133 have the same w
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Typical wells in Davidson County, T
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At 1400 Eighth Ave. N. At foundry,
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Typical springs in Davidson County,
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DICKBON COUNTY 141 the Highland Rim
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DICKSON COUNTY 148 mineral matter,
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Water-bearing beds Remarks Use of w
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Typical springs in Dickson County,
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HOUSTON COUNTY 149 superficial rela
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Typical wells in Houston County, Te
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HUMPHREYS COUNTY 155 and elsewhere
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Page 220 and 221: StJMNEB COUNTY 199 mately N. 70° E
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Page 224 and 225: SUMNEE COUNTY 208 Gallatin are know
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Page 232 and 233: WILL1AMSON COUNTY 211 perennial spr
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Page 242 and 243: WILSON COUNTY 221 entire Middle and
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