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 Humphreys County, Tenn. Continued<br />
[New, 168,170,183,184, and 186 dug; the others drilled]<br />
Water-bearing beds<br />
Remarks<br />
Use of water<br />
Temperature<br />
(°F.)<br />
Yield<br />
(gallons<br />
a minute)<br />
Methodoflift<br />
Water<br />
level<br />
above<br />
or<br />
below<br />
surface<br />
(feet)<br />
Depth belowsurface<br />
(feet)<br />
No. on<br />
Plate 4<br />
Geologic horizon<br />
Character of<br />
material<br />
Well at Taylor's planing mill.<br />
Boiler feed ........<br />
......<br />
15-20<br />
Air lift ..-_... .<br />
-35<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
(?) formation.<br />
Tuscaloosa (?) formation.<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
limestone.<br />
Alluvium.. .......<br />
Fort Payne (?) formation.<br />
Cherty residuum<br />
above Fort<br />
Payne formation.<br />
Upper part of Ordoviraan<br />
system.<br />
St. Louis or Warsaw<br />
limestone.<br />
Cherty residuum<br />
above Fort<br />
Payne formation.<br />
..... do ... ...<br />
St. Peter (?) sandstone.<br />
Bedding-plane<br />
crevice.<br />
Gravel or residual<br />
chert.<br />
Weathered limestone.<br />
303<br />
165<br />
Section houses at Fifty Four. Top of solid<br />
rock is 230 feet below surface.<br />
Supply for city of Waverly. Consumption<br />
40,000 to 45,000 gallons a day.<br />
Maximum draft has been 12 gallons a minute<br />
for 35-minute period.<br />
Capacity of pump 35 gallons a minute, exceeds<br />
ultimate capacity of well.<br />
At janitor's residence, 200 yards east of school.<br />
Large capacity hi all seasons. Most other supplies<br />
of community from dug wells.<br />
-40L-.<br />
-12<br />
166<br />
61<br />
50<br />
10<br />
20±<br />
Electric suction pump.<br />
Hand pump or bucket-<br />
Electric suction pump.<br />
Near bottom.<br />
do<br />
"167<br />
168<br />
..... do.<br />
57<br />
-14<br />
-6<br />
-9....<br />
-38<br />
Bottom ...<br />
Near bottom.<br />
169<br />
170<br />
«171<br />
Abandoned oil test well.<br />
Domestic, stock ...<br />
59<br />
3-5<br />
400<br />
Near bottom,<br />
do<br />
172<br />
178<br />
dO-<br />
-25<br />
-142-<br />
183<br />
Formerly used for stock watering.<br />
Test well by Tennesese Central Oil Co. Salt<br />
water struck at depths of 1,580, 1,700, and<br />
1,940 feet.<br />
..... do.. .....<br />
-90±.<br />
... do.......<br />
1,680<br />
184<br />
185<br />
71<br />
3-5<br />
Hand pump _... ... .<br />
-40±.<br />
Near bottom.<br />
Kft-l-<br />
186<br />
187<br />
Abandoned well at former sawmill. Residual<br />
clay and chert rubble extends to depth of 235<br />
feet, or approximately to level of Tennessee<br />
River.<br />
Gravel residuum<br />
from Fort<br />
Payne formation.<br />
< See analysis, pp. 112-113.
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