Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells

Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells

Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells - With Geological Considerations and Examples of...
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Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells

Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells

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Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells

$10,829.01 $6.99
Author: Spon, Ernest
Format: eBook
Language: English

Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells - With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed

In modern times the tendency of the inhabitants of a country to dwell together in large communities, and the consequent need for accumulating in a particular locality a sufficient supply of water for household, social, and industrial purposes, have rendered necessary the construction of such engineering works as impounding reservoirs and wells, by means of which the abundant measure of sparsely populated districts may be utilized, and water obtained not only free from those impurities which it collects in densely populated districts, but also in greater quantity than the natural sources of the district are capable of supplying. Of the works mentioned, wells have fairly a primary claim upon the notice of the sanitary engineer, for, without undervaluing other sources of supply, the water from them certainly possesses the advantage over that from rivers and surface drainage, of being without organic admixture and unimpregnated with those deadly spores which find their way into surface waters and are so fatal in seasons of epidemic visitation. A great deal of the irregularity in the action of wells, and the consequent distrust with which they are regarded by many, is attributable either to improper situation or to the haphazard manner in which the search for underground water is frequently conducted. As regards the first cause, it cannot be too strongly stated that extreme caution is necessary in the choice of situations for wells, and that a sound geological knowledge of the country in which the attempt is to be made should precede any sinking or boring for this purpose, otherwise much useless expense may be incurred without a chance of success. Indeed,[vi] the power of indicating those points where wells may, in all probability, be successfully established, is one of the chief practical applications of geology to the useful purposes of life. Two cases in point are before me as I write; in the one 15,000l. has been spent in sinking a shaft and driving headings which yield but little water, found abundantly at the same depth in a mine adjoining; and in the other a town would be, but for its surface wells, entirely without water, the waterworks having been idle for weeks, and the sinkers are feebly endeavouring to obtain water by deep sinkings, in a position where its occurrence in any quantity is physically impossible. Ample supplies could be obtained in both these cases by shifting the situation a few hundred yards. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 45703
Author: Spon, Ernest
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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