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Near rivers and lakes can be some of the most difficult areas to get water.
Yep, a well in a active watershed at shore is a totally different game than "sticking a straw" in an static pocket of groundwater contained inland.
We're in a rivershed and our water table is very high and easy to "hit"... but not so easy to get nice, clean water. All the subsurface water is still flowing toward the river (above the permafrost & ice layer) and is either muddy/silty or full of dissolved iron from the mountains. If you can drill down below the ice layer, the first 20 feet or so is full of arsenic.
When I lived on the coast of Albemarle sound, most wells were either slightly salty from the ocean or yellow from the cypress in the swamps or silty from the rivers.
And yet the semi-arid Sandhills of Nebraska are over one of the largest aquifers in the world… In some places it's so close to the surface that it's a marsh/lake.
I've noticed "drought" is a drum you like to beat, but I don't think you actually understand what it is, and what it isn't.
And yet the semi-arid Sandhills of Nebraska are over one of the largest aquifers in the world… In some places it's so close to the surface that it's a marsh/lake.
I've noticed "drought" is a drum you like to beat, but I don't think you actually understand what it is, and what it isn't.
Okay so explain how no precipitation is such a wonderful thing.
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