Originally Posted by Theo:
To play Devil's Advocate on something that Steve Young at least should understand - when do you reach diminishing returns on drilling additional artesian wells? If there's only one pressurized aquifer being tapped, wouldn't you (possibly) have a situation where one 6" hole 30 feet deep would produce, say, 20 gpm, but adding a second 6" hole 30 feet deep only gives you a total of 35 gpm?
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Theo:
There are a number of unknowns about the 45 yr. old artesian well-one is how deep, another is what kind of screen and how clogged up some of it may be with sand (sand comes up regularly when we turn on a side valve for occasional drinking water).
Also- fyi- after a time of hard rain, we notice the well running noticably heavier, perhaps at 18 gpm (still not enough for a 1/3 acre pond now holding 800-900,000 gallons. Another piece of info. is that we beleive the newly re-dug pond is leaking. After all, it used to drain out (via a 5" pipe) half of the water that went in via a pipe installed on the far side a couple feet below the surface (we installed a pvc s curve extension to bring the level of the pond to max.) It is possible that the leaking water is making it's way back to the aquifier indirectly?
