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 Dickson County, Tenn. Continued<br />
[All drilled wells]<br />
go d<br />
Water-bearing beds<br />
Remark^<br />
Use of water<br />
Temperature<br />
(°F.)<br />
Yield<br />
(gallons<br />
a minute)<br />
Method of lift<br />
Water<br />
level above<br />
or 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 />
Residual clay 37 feet thick; some water at<br />
base.<br />
No water-bearing beds below Chattanooga<br />
shale.<br />
... ..do .<br />
......<br />
lOdb....<br />
Bucket and rope. .....<br />
-25. .....<br />
At casing<br />
head.<br />
-15<br />
-do... .<br />
42 __ __<br />
226 ........<br />
Top of Chattanooga<br />
shale.<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
limestone,<br />
do ...<br />
215<br />
216<br />
Public well at White Bluff station.<br />
61<br />
58<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice (?)<br />
Near bottom.<br />
68 ......<br />
"218<br />
"219<br />
Dry crevices in limestone above Chattanooga<br />
shale; no water-bearing beds below.<br />
Well abandoned as inadequate. Residual<br />
clay 60 feet thick.<br />
Salt water. No other water-bearing beds<br />
except at shallow depths.<br />
Residual clay 20 feet thick.<br />
.. do...... ..<br />
None _ ..<br />
do..... .<br />
58<br />
3 ....<br />
5-8 .....<br />
-45... ...<br />
+2± .<br />
1/30<br />
Bucket and rope .._. _<br />
-60_<br />
Top of Chattanooga<br />
shale.<br />
Fort Payne (?) formation.<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
246 ........<br />
125.. .<br />
57<br />
4<br />
-20. __ .<br />
1,373 ......<br />
20... ......<br />
«220<br />
221<br />
222<br />
223<br />
75<br />
Steam force pump .....<br />
-35. __ .<br />
Residual chert<br />
above St. Louis<br />
or Warsaw limestone.<br />
Top of Chattanoo<br />
Former municipal supply. Drawdown reported<br />
200 feet while pumping 75 gallons a<br />
minute.<br />
Residual clay 60 feet thick.<br />
None _ ....<br />
400 ..<br />
226<br />
ga shale.<br />
Domestic, stock ...<br />
M-<br />
25<br />
-75<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
limestone.<br />
do ..<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
Pumped steadily at about 25 gallons a minute<br />
in summer. No water-bearing beds below<br />
100 feet.<br />
At Dickson section houses.<br />
Water-bearing bed at depth of 65 feet yielded<br />
about 1 gallon an hour.<br />
58<br />
Steam force pump. ....<br />
81 ....<br />
75± ... -<br />
228<br />
«229<br />
Vi<br />
-50 ___<br />
on<br />
Automatic electric<br />
pump.<br />
..do<br />
Fort Payne (?) formation.<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
limestone.<br />
do.<br />
... ...do<br />
. do... ........ .<br />
110<br />
200<br />
230<br />
232<br />
-40 __ -<br />
do. .......<br />
Domestic, stock _<br />
8.. __ .<br />
1/20<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
do<br />
......<br />
Residual clay 50 feet thick; some water at<br />
base.<br />
Hand pump. ..........<br />
Automatic electric<br />
pump.<br />
-65 .<br />
-5... _ .<br />
-40- __ .<br />
71 ____ .<br />
76<br />
60.... .....<br />
65<br />
233<br />
234<br />
235<br />
236<br />
do<br />
..do<br />
Near bottom.<br />
237<br />
1 See analysis, pp. 114-115.
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