GROUND WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE

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238 INDEX Page Sumner County, municipal ground-water supplies in___________. 203 typical springs to____________ 206 typical wells in._._...___...... 204-205 Suspended matter, presence of, in ground water.._-.....-..-.-......_ 107-108 Taytor well, driller's log oL___._____ 148 Temperature, records of ___________ 6-9 Tennessee, geologic map of north-central, showing location of typical wells andsprings. ___ pi. 4(inpocket) map of, showing physiographic districts and progress in survey of ground- water resources_________ pi. 1 natural resources of north-central____ 4 Tennessee Eiver, course of_________ 23 map showing area covered by this report in relation to drainage basin of_ pi. 3 Tertiary (?) deposits, character and water bearing properties of_______ 26,30 Transportation, facilities for, in north-central Tennessee____________ 4 Tuscaloosa formation, character and water bearing properties of. ____ 26,32r33 occurrence of.______________ 31-32 Underground drainage systems, cycles in formation of.. ._______.. 78-82 general features of._______ 24, 76-77, pi. 5 Uranin, use of, in studies of flow of ground water.__._.________.. 87-89 W Waldron shale, character of.________ 27 Walter Hill, domes near___________ 64 U o Page Ward, limestone, character and thickness of.. 60 exposure of, in East Nashville... pi. 7 Warsaw formation, character and water-bear ing properties of . . 26,34-36 mineral constituents in water of ___ 122 occurrences of..... ... 36 Water-bearing openings, relation of, to phys iographic history and land forms.. .... ........ 84-86 relation of, to stratigraphy. ...____ 82-83 to structure._..'.................... 83-84 to utilization of ground water._.... 86-89 types and origin of... 69-74 Water table in limestone regions, general fea tures of.................... 76-76,84-85 Watertown, municipal ground-water supply Of...... ... ............... 228-229 Waverly, municipal ground-water supply of...._....__........_.... 156-158 Webb well, driller's log of.. .. . .. 190 Wells Creek Basin, pre-Lowville rocks of, character and age of...____~ 57-58 Wells Creek uplift, general features of. ... 65-67 White Bluff, anticlines near......_____. 65 Williamson County, analyses of ground waters from . 116-117 general features of.. ...... . 207-210 ground-water conditions to 210-213 municipal ground-water supplies to_. 213-214 typical springs to___ .... . 218-219 typical wells to__________. 216-217 Wilson County, analyses of ground waters from........................... 116-117 general features of . . 220-221 ground-water conditions to.. 221-227 municipal ground-water supplies in. 228-229 typical springs to.. _.,. 233 typical wells in..._.... ..... ._ 230-232
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 640 PLATE 4 bbaccoport (Cuba Landing Buinpus Mills Base enlarged from U. S. Geological Survey base map of Tennessee compiled in 1911 and 1912, with corrections from topographic maps by the U. S. Geolcgical Survey and from county traverse maps by the Tennessee Geological Survey, during the period 1912 1927 R T eaversi Store Indian Mound Cumberlan 1 Reconnaissance geology by O.P.Jenkins Z Reconnaissance geology by BruceWade 3 Geology by C.WHayes and E.O.UIrich 4 Geology by R.S.Bassler 5 Geology by J.J.Galloway 6 Geology by E.O.UIrich and R.S.Bsssler St Bethlehem ThomasviHe B \ E GEOLOGIC MAP OF NORTH-CENTRAL TENNESSEE, SHOWING LOCATION OF WELLS AND SPRINGS Scale 250,000 5 1932 10 15 MILES WILLIAMS A HEINTZ CO,WASH.D.C. Geology compiled by A. M. Piper from detailed geologic maps by R. S. Bassler, J. J. Galloway, C. W. Hayes, and E. 0. Ulrich, also from the third edition of the geologic map of Tennessee by the Tennessee Geological Survey, with minor adjustments to the corrected base Ji ft! ;s EXPLANATION UNCONSOL1DATED ROCKS (Gravel, sand, and silt, composing flood plains of major streams; deposits on secondary streams not mapped) Terrace deposits (Hounded to subangular gravel, sand, and silt on river terraces; locally several hundred feet above present Eutaw formation (Red micaceous sand with interstratified layers of clay Tuscaloosa formation (Gravel derived from chert of Mississippian rocks. with little sand and clay) UNCONFORMITY CONSOLIDATED ROCKS St. Louis limestone and Warsaw formation (Massive fine-grained gray to blue limestone (St. Louis) above; thick-bedded coarsely crystalline sandy or cherty limestone (Warsaw) below. Both weather to reddish clay with loose chert fragments) Cfp __J Fort Payne ("Tullahoma") formation (Siliecowi ahale, chert, flint, and cherty crinoidal lime stone of'extremely variable character; progressively more argillaceous from west to east) New Providence, Ridgetop, and Chattanooga shales (Limestone and greenish clay shale (New Providence a-nd Ridgetop) above and carbonaceous black shale (Chatta nooga) below) UNCONFORMITY Pegram limestone (Thick-bedded light-gray limestone with coarse-grained sandstone at base locally ; forms small violated outcrops) Camden chert (Alternating layers of dense bluish-gray limestone and yellowish chert; known at only two localities in south ern Humphreys County) UNCONFORMITY Harriman (?) chert (White, gray, and buff nonfossUiferous chertv limestone, known only in the Wells Cresk Basin, Stewart County) Birdsong limestone (Thin-bedded cherty fossHiferous limestone; known only in the Wells Creek Basin) UNCONFORMITY Decatur limestone (Thick-bedded light-gray relatively pure limestone) Lobelville formation (Thin-bedded earthy limestone and variegated shale) Bob formation (Massive pure limestone and variegated shale) Beech River formation (Calcareous shale and shaly cherty limestone) Dixon limestone (Earthy red limestone and red and purple shale) Lego limestone (Compact light-gray miitcrystalline limestone) Waldron shale (Light-gray shaly limestone) Laurel limestone (Massive purple and reddish limestone) Osgood limestone (Thi-n-beddrd compact light-gray, blue, or reddish earthy limestone) Brassfield limestone (White or blue cherty fossiliferous limestone) Fernvale formation (Soft green or chocolate-colored shale with bands of crystalline limestone) Arnheim formation (Blue granular crystalline limestone and interbedded shale) UNCONFORMITY Leipers limestone (Knotty earthy limestone and interbedded shale, or gran ular crystalline limestone without shale) Catheys limestone (Knotty earthy limestone and shale with thick bands of impure blue limestone) Cannon limestone (Massivs pure dove-colored and gray limestone, also argillaceous cherty blue limestone) Bigby limestone (Mainly granular crystalline gray or brown laminated and cross-bedded phosphatic limestone) Hermitage formation (At western edge of Nashville Basin, chiefly medium- bedded sandy and phosphatic subgranular limestone with local beds of shale. Toward the northeast and east grades into flaggy blue-gray sandy and earthy limestone, calcareous sandstone, and shale) Lowville limestone (Massive compact white or light-blue cherty limestone (Carters limestone member) with thin-bedded dovecolored limestone and yellowish-gray shale at top) Lebanon limestone (Thin-bedded compact bluish or dove-colored limestone) Ridley limestone (Massive fine-grained blue-gray cherty limestone) Pierce and Murfreesboro limestones (Thin-bedded blus or drab brittle limestone with local thick beds of bluish-brown coarse crystalline limestone (Piercs) overlying massive brittle drab cherty limestone (Murfreesboro)) UNCONFORMITY Limestone of Beekmantown age (Light-gray fine-grained cherty magnesian limestone) +SO o Nonflowing well (Number refers to description in text and in tabulated well data) Flowing well Spring Well or spring for which water analysis is tabulated in text Middle and Lower Devonian, Silurian, and Upper Ordovician undifferentiated Upper and Middle Ordovician Ordovician undifferentiated z o: ui r- o: o: U) D O UJ U < Ul a u (I) D o IE 111 U. 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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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U. S. GEOLOGICAL SUBVEY WATEH-STJPP
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U. 8. GEOLOGICAL STJEVEY WATER-SUPP
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U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPL
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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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GROUND "WATER IN NORTH-CENTRAL TENN
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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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Typical wells in Cheatham County, T
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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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GBOUND WATEB IN NOETH-CENTEAL TENNE
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HUMPHREYS COUNTY 155 and elsewhere
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HUMPHREYS COUNTY 157 prove inadequa
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Typical wells in Humphreys County,
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Typical springs in Humphreys County
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY 163 Driller's log
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY 165 and most of t
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Maximum consumption 1,200 gallons a
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EOBEETSON COUNTY 171 GROUND-WATER C
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Typical wells in Robertson County,
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY 179 water table a
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY 181 and passing t
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY 183 tated as the
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