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To: William H Huebl who wrote (12218)	3/8/2004 5:58:08 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34894

My well situation is a little different from some. The aquifer here is fed by rain and snow in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Lots of filtering and a blue clay layer at about 30' in the area. Water can't get through blue clay and it's used to line ponds and well pipes. My well is 270' deep with the pickup pump being down 170'. I could back a truck full of gasoline into my yard, dump it, and it wouldn't get into my water. OTOH, when I had my hunting ground 60 miles west, it was sand ground with the water table at 16'. Point wells, a point with holes for picking up water would be pounded 20' into the sand on the end of a pipe. When they sprayed farm chemicals we could taste them the next day. That county also had the highest cancer rate in the state.