Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells

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Author

Spon, Ernest

Title

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

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Brian Wilcox, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

TD: Technology: Environmental technology, Sanitary engineering

Subject

Boring

Category

Text

eBook-No.

45703

Project Gutenberg

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

Release Date

May 20, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SINKING AND BORING WELLS.
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CHAPTER I. GEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. — Extent of Superficial Area. — Mineral Character of the Formation. — Position and General Conditions of the Outcrop. — Height of Water-bearing Strata above Surface of Country. — Rainfall in the District where the Water-bearing Strata Crop out. — Disturbances of the Strata.
5. 5.CHAPTER II. THE NEW RED SANDSTONE.
6. 6.CHAPTER III. WELL SINKING.
7. 7.CHAPTER IV. WELL BORING.
8. 8.CHAPTER V. AMERICAN TUBE WELL.
9. 9.CHAPTER VI. WELL BORING AT GREAT DEPTHS. — Kind-Chaudron System. — Dru’s System. — Mather and Platt’s System.
10. 10.CHAPTER VII. EXAMPLES OF WELLS EXECUTED, AND OF DISTRICTS SUPPLIED BY WELLS. — Permian Strata. — Trias Strata. — Oolitic Strata. — Cretaceous Strata.
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII. TABLES AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. — Storing Well-water . — Hints on Superintending Well-work . — Rate of Progress of Boring . (André.) — Cost of Boring . — Tempering Boring Chisels. — Gases in Wells.
12. 12.INDEX.
13. 13.E. & F. N. SPON’S NEW BOOKS.
14. 14.Catalogue of Books RELATING TO PRACTICAL SCIENCE PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY E. & F. N. SPON. LONDON: 48, CHARING CROSS. NEW YORK: 446, BROOME STREET.

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