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Larry

wrote in news:1192552694.711935.110330
@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com:

So do I! You have to go pretty deep with a well here to get
*good*
drinking water.

We have a special political problem in Charleston. The
politicians gave away the farm for a few "jobs" to Nucor Steel,
who pumps 3000 GPM or 4.3M gallons per day out of the aquifer
more than the other few hundred commercial wells. Obviously,
water had to drop....about 24 feet.

There used to be a public drinking well that dated back into the
1700s under the downtown historic district. Water flowed out of
two "filling stations" you could bring your jugs to, 24/7, one at
Calhoun St and Rutledge Ave and the other by the fire station at
Meeting St and Wentworth St. Both wells had to be shut down do
to salt contamination as the seawater filled in from all the
pumping of Nucor and the other big industrial pumpers bled us
dry. (Look at the test well charts on the pdf file.)

Inside the Chamber of Commerce building in downtown Charleston,
there is....now was....a hand dug well that dated back into the
beginning of Charleston. That well is totally dry, today, and
will never come back.

The pumping of tens of millions of gallons goes on, 24/7. Don't
tell me I have to "save water" and not wash my car......insulting
my intelligence.

Larry
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You can tell there's extremely
intelligent life in the universe
because they have never called Earth.