"In fact, no issue, including transportation, threatens Georgia's economy more in the long term than the continued availability of water..."
Read on- link to the full article below, as well as my response.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Miller
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:53 AM
To: Ken Foskett
Subject: Well Drilling in Atlanta
In response to your Sunday, January 25 editorial:
To: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/printedition/2009/01/25/watered0125.html
in which you state:
Read on- link to the full article below, as well as my response.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Miller
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 9:53 AM
To: Ken Foskett
Subject: Well Drilling in Atlanta
In response to your Sunday, January 25 editorial:
To: http://www.ajc.com/opinion
in which you state:
"Make well-water users subject to watering restrictions just like people who take public water from their city or county. Many homes and businesses have dodged drought restrictions by digging wells, even though groundwater withdrawals also deplete water from the watershed."
Ken,
The basis of your argument for regulating water drawn from wells is accurate- certain wells in certain locations have been shown to affect the water table. In India, for example, a Coca Cola plant began withdrawing from the sandy strata in the town of Kala Dera and, in 5 years, the water table has dropped over 100 feet, leaving families who had always depended on their ancestor's wells now scrambling just to have enough water to survive.
In Georgia's Piedmont and Mountain region (all of metro Atlanta) we have a different geology than that Indian village. When we drill a well, we are extracting water from cracks and crevices deep in the bedrock. We are required to install casing to separate this water from the water table above the bedrock. These cracks are not dependent on the water table, or on anything else around them for that matter.
To illustrate just how segregated these cracks are, I give you one client, who owns a commercial chicken farm just outside Metro Atlanta. He has 11 different wells in a 1000' radius of a creek bottom. The deepest well is over 800', the shallowest at just under 300'. His highest yield is 90 gallons per minute, and his lowest is 8 gpm.
Clearly, none of these wells or the cracks they have tapped, though in close proximity to one and other, are at all related, connected, or dependent.
Back to wells and irrigation: before water restrictions, our typical client in Buckhead was using 50,000 or more gallons per week to irrigate their estates- clearly more than good horticultural practices would recommend. Our typical well cannot sustain that kind of volume, so these clients have been forced to learn best practices for watering their landscapes. Often, these users drop their volume down to a fraction of their original use. Besides that, we are drawing water out of the bedrock, where it is locked in time against our use, and introducing it to the soil, thereby bringing previously unavailable water into the water cycle. Based on that last point alone, you should maybe instead consider calling for more private wells as a solution to the drought!
The Georgia Regional Water Council is designed to look at water and its use on a region-by-region basis. For the sake of our industry, and for the rights of private individuals to use their property as they see fit, we hope they will not paint this issue with such a broad brush.
Smart Planning for the Future!
Rob Miller
www.millerwelldrilling.com
(800) 927-2997
Installation, Service, Purification.
Independence, Purity, Peace of Mind.
Ken,
The basis of your argument for regulating water drawn from wells is accurate- certain wells in certain locations have been shown to affect the water table. In India, for example, a Coca Cola plant began withdrawing from the sandy strata in the town of Kala Dera and, in 5 years, the water table has dropped over 100 feet, leaving families who had always depended on their ancestor's wells now scrambling just to have enough water to survive.
In Georgia's Piedmont and Mountain region (all of metro Atlanta) we have a different geology than that Indian village. When we drill a well, we are extracting water from cracks and crevices deep in the bedrock. We are required to install casing to separate this water from the water table above the bedrock. These cracks are not dependent on the water table, or on anything else around them for that matter.
To illustrate just how segregated these cracks are, I give you one client, who owns a commercial chicken farm just outside Metro Atlanta. He has 11 different wells in a 1000' radius of a creek bottom. The deepest well is over 800', the shallowest at just under 300'. His highest yield is 90 gallons per minute, and his lowest is 8 gpm.
Clearly, none of these wells or the cracks they have tapped, though in close proximity to one and other, are at all related, connected, or dependent.
Back to wells and irrigation: before water restrictions, our typical client in Buckhead was using 50,000 or more gallons per week to irrigate their estates- clearly more than good horticultural practices would recommend. Our typical well cannot sustain that kind of volume, so these clients have been forced to learn best practices for watering their landscapes. Often, these users drop their volume down to a fraction of their original use. Besides that, we are drawing water out of the bedrock, where it is locked in time against our use, and introducing it to the soil, thereby bringing previously unavailable water into the water cycle. Based on that last point alone, you should maybe instead consider calling for more private wells as a solution to the drought!
The Georgia Regional Water Council is designed to look at water and its use on a region-by-region basis. For the sake of our industry, and for the rights of private individuals to use their property as they see fit, we hope they will not paint this issue with such a broad brush.
Smart Planning for the Future!
Rob Miller
www.millerwelldrilling.com
(800) 927-2997
Installation, Service, Purification.
Independence, Purity, Peace of Mind.
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