The Underground Waters of Southwestern Ohio Volume 259 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...by shallow wells, but as the houses became more crowded the water became polluted, making it necessary to go deeper for supplies. For a time moderately deep wells were entirely successful, but as manufacturing establishments multiplied the demand became too heavy for the supply or the water became polluted, so that many of these wells also had to be abandoned, although some are still used. Next, recourse was had to deep drilled wells, many of which were carried to 1,000 feet and some to more than 2,000 feet, but without finding any further fresh water of consequence, although plenty of the sulphosaline water was obtained. At present a few of the dug wells remain on the outskirts of the city and a number of the deep drilled wells are still in use, but most of the well water is obtained from the driven wells sunk in the alluvial or terrace deposits or for a few feet into the underlying rocks. The greater part of the business firms and practically all the citizens use the public supply. Well records.--An unusually large number of wells have been sunk in Cincinnati owing to the large number of breweries and distilleries, the poor quality of the public supply, and other minor causes. As a result the possibilities of getting water in this way have been pretty well demonstrated. The probable amount of the water in both the unconsolidated deposits and the rock formations has already been discussed and numerous supplementary data are given in the tables (pp. 122-123, 130, 202-203). It only remains to present a few additional facts as to the nature of the materials and the position of the bedrock surface. The character of the deposits is best shown by the following log, which represents the best available record in. the vicinity. The correlation of geologic formation...