# Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed

Author: Spon, Ernest

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45703

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Water+Supply%3A+the+Present+Practice+of+Sinking+and+Boring+Wells+With+Geological+Spon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Nearly every civil engineer is familiar with the fact that certain porous soils, such as sand or gravel, absorb water with rapidity, and that the ground composed of them soon dries up after showers. If a well be sunk in such soils, we often penetrate to considerable depths before we meet with water; but this is usually found on our approaching some lower part of the porous formation where it rests on an impervious bed; for here the water, unable to make its way downwards in a direct line, accumulates as in a reservoir, and is ready to ooze out into any opening which may be made, in the same manner as we see the salt water filtrate into and fill any hollow which we dig in the sands of the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/water-supply-the-present-practice-of-sinking-and-boring-wells-w-b962992a/chapters/5/index.md)