The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-24
A STARTLING DISCOVERY
TIE NEW ARTEsIAN WELL MAX
ING TNRoADs MILES AWAY.


The Well on the County Poor Farm
Drops on Fifteen Inches in It's Sur
face Flow The Wells at Bonaven =
ture ana 5cheptzen Park Drop Of
Eighteen Inches-The Wells at Thun =
deroolt Much Affected.
1t appears that the deep artesian we'll is
drawing a portion Of its supplies from a
long distance. as wells remote from it are
materially affected by its flow.
In an interview yesterday with County
Engineer Edward J. Thomas, that gentle
man states that the well on the county poor
farm has been noticeably affected
since the big well has bsen discharging
its 100000 gallons daily. Mr.. Thomas
says that the water in the artesian well on
the county poor farm does not rise as high
IN the casing by fifteen inches as it did
before the big well was drilled down
through the water-bearing rock.
Supt. W. E. Fennell, in charge of Bona
venture cemetery, says the artesian well
mere shows a decided decrease in
pressure, and the water now does not rise
as high in the pipe, by eighteen inches, as it
old before the we'll on the Springfield
plantation reached its maximum flow.
The well at Scheutzen park, Mr.. Fennell
says, shows about the same diminished
pressure as is shown at the artesian we'll at
Bonaventure.
The artesian well on the Thunderbolt
road at Horse Tavern, the waters of which
raised two feet above the surface before the
new well was put down in this city, has
| ceased flowing altogether.
Mr.. Henry Ambos of Thunderbolt. who
| mas one OF the finest artesian wells in this
section, says his well has been very much
affected by the new we'll on the Springfield
plantation.
When. Supt Manning was asked a few
Gays ago II there had been any perceptible
| raihlg on in the wells on the water works
grounds he was not inclined to think
theTe mao been, but judging from the re-
ports from wells from two to seven miles
distant there ls reason to believe that the
water works wells have also been affected
| by the new well, and that the falling off
has not been observed, as the water is
pumped from the water-works wells
Measurements will probably be made soon
70 determine II the city wells have been
affected.
The question has been raised whether or
not, when the deep water bearing strata is
reached below the hard rock in which the
| drlll Is now working, the pressure will be
restored to the wells now affected, and the
opinion OF many is that it will, as the
heavier vein which is expected to be found
at the greater depth, with its proportionate
pressure. will tend to diminish the pressure
and flow from the vein which is now flow
ing its 10000 gallons daily, and what is
lost by that vein by the new well will be
recovered by the wells now affec ed.
1t appears to be evident that a few such
wells, drawing their supply from the same
strata which now supplies the we'll on the
Springfield plantation, would so reduce the
pressure on the wells now affected that
their waters would not rise to the surface.
Meantime, the heavy volume Of water
comes pouring out Of the iron throat of the
new well, and rusheS with roar over the
dam of the weir on its tireless flow, after
perhaps centuries of confinement hundreds
OF feet beneath earth, sand and solid rock
millions of gallons going to waste.