I found the problem with the stringing shots!!

[Jim Tarleton]

The piezometric drawdown in the Castle Hayne Aquifer from the Aurora, NC phosphate mine now reaches all the way to New Jersey. Other than shallow ground water and entrapments, it is one of only two aquifers in NC. I was to testify in a lawsuit concerning encroachment and the judge asked me my expertise. When I told him I was testifying as a Hydrologist, he replied he had never heard of any such discipline and declined to allow me to testify. When I explained that I had a Master's Degree from a major university in reservoir mechanics and transient pressure analysis, he dismissed me entirely.

There will be a day of reckoning, and it is going to be violent. This state has no statutes regarding water wells. They just drill a hole, drop in some PVC pipe and a pump and start pumping. No clue as to ground water contamination is. My neighbor's water well is in his pig pen (the well was there first). He has now drilled three water wells within 50 feet of each other. When I tried to help him, he said he already had an expert - some DA local with a drilling rig. When the DA asked me "just how many water wells have you drilled?", and I responded with "over 6,000", he took me for a BS'er. I watched that moron drill the well and I told my neighbor it would make sand in thirty days - it took about 90 days before it sanded up completely.

It reminds me of the morons who have some jerk with a hoist in a tree rebuild their engines and then wonder why it failed in about 4 months.

Have you seen the results of the testing of rural water wells showing significant amounts of estrogen contamination? It comes from the septic tanks. Ever wonder why the girls are growing huge hooters at age 12 these days and the boys are looking a little effeminate?

Jim

[Don W]

Pete, ~ a little more of that old project. Those rocks are hard (building quality) Sandstone, some heavy > no flint there. However, I think I have a couple of pieces of other stuff (suitable stones) & a piece of Obsidian (sp?), from Old Mexico, that I will dig out & send to you.

Best Regards, DW Pete's Wicked Ale

[chuck in idaho]

Nice work, Pete

Always enjoy your "finds". I picked these pieces up at a local Drag Strips swap meet last fall for $10. I know what all of them are used for except the center one, finger paint pot or top hand piece for a fire starter?

Chuck

[PeteDavis]

Chuck-

I'd say that stone in the middle is a cup for a bow drill. Those pedernales pieces in the second are stuff I spalled and knapped. Great material.

Thanks Don. Great dry stack work!

Jim, I don't doubt the estrogen in the wells. I am lucky enough to be one of the highest elevation sites on the mountain. My water comes off the shales that trap it there for months and years, therefore the flows are somewhat stabilized. Biggest fear:giardia from deer turds. Maybe cryptospyridium. I filter to 2 microns before I drink anything these days(ceramic).

I plan to drill a well in 2010 for a third H2O source, by the way. That will make only two wells in the hollow, and the nearest well head I know of aside from those would be 3/4 of a mile from here.

16" block walls in this new puppy below grade, filled with 3000 psi concrete. Gonna be a long week and the cash is flowing allright, the other way though.

PD