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