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 Williamson County, Tenn. Continued<br />
[No. 387 dug', all others drilled]<br />
Water-bearing beds<br />
Remarks<br />
Use of water<br />
Temperature<br />
(°F.)<br />
Yield<br />
(gallons<br />
a 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 material<br />
At Brentwood section houses.<br />
-30<br />
Bigby limestone<br />
or Hermitage formation.<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
limestone.<br />
Cannon limestone-<br />
m<br />
Representative of group of 17 wells in the community.<br />
Very<br />
small.<br />
Mo-<br />
..... do....<br />
.....do _ ..._ ..<br />
-30-46.<br />
-76<br />
Bedding-plane crevice.<br />
40-50<br />
100<br />
355<br />
356<br />
4 wells, all dry holes, in Cannon and Bigby (?)<br />
limestones.<br />
Maximum capacity about 500 gallons a minute.<br />
8 or 10 dry holes at house; well at barn,<br />
60 feet deep, yields salty water; other domestic<br />
wells of neighborhood are 45 to 100 feet<br />
deep.<br />
Well flows by artesian pressure in winter.<br />
Most wells of vicinity about 60 feet deep.<br />
Ultimate yield 600 gallons a day<br />
Ultimate yield 300 gallons a day.<br />
At Franklin section foreman's residence.<br />
-40...<br />
Cannon limestone.<br />
70 __ .....<br />
None __<br />
357<br />
360<br />
363<br />
Domestic, stock ...<br />
Ridley (?) limestone.<br />
Cannon limestone-<br />
Hermitage formation.<br />
Lowville limestone<br />
or Hermitage formation.<br />
Solution crevice. ...<br />
160 . ....<br />
60 ._<br />
50<br />
Near bottom.<br />
"385<br />
do....<br />
..... do ... -<br />
do...<br />
-40. ..<br />
22<br />
Bedding-plane crevice.<br />
867<br />
368<br />
-40...<br />
360<br />
Dry holes in Bigby limestone and Hermitage<br />
formation.<br />
Reported drawdown 25 feet pumping 20 gallons<br />
a minute far 1 hour.<br />
Highly mineralized water from 200-foot waterbearing<br />
bed; another bed at depth of 40 feet<br />
supplies potable water in wet season.<br />
Well reaches top of Lebanon limestone at depth<br />
of 76 feet.<br />
Well on Johnson property, which adjoins<br />
Boxley, entered solution cavity 4 feet high<br />
at 139 feet.<br />
Ultimate capacity reported as 25 gallons a day.<br />
-20<br />
Lowville limestone<br />
Bedding-plane crevice.<br />
371<br />
372<br />
do.. . _ ..<br />
20-.<br />
Small. _<br />
Near .bottom.<br />
200<br />
373<br />
do. ...<br />
do ....... ...<br />
... ..do. ........ :..<br />
-75<br />
58<br />
-50-.<br />
Ridley limestone..<br />
132........<br />
876<br />
"376<br />
..... do ...<br />
Very<br />
small.<br />
-60<br />
Lowville (?) limestone.<br />
Bedding-plane crevice.<br />
75 ...-<br />
377
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