In the Dark About Wells?

In Freetown, 7 wells in one neighborhood went dry very suddenly, all at the same time after activity at a deep commercial excavation site nearby.  Neighbors were left with no water for their homes.  No drinking water, no water for cooking, no water for laundry, no water for flushing toilets, no water for showers or baths, no water for lawns or gardens.  Homeowners had to pay upwards of $10,000 out of their own pockets to have new wells drilled.  These new wells had to go down several hundred feet deeper to find water again.  If the water table had lowered naturally, due to weather conditions or other such factors, the wells would have been likely to go dry gradually, slowly running out of water, sputtering dry rather then going very suddenly dry all at once. These wells went dry in a manner that would suggest that the fissures in the bedrock that had fed the wells had suddenly collapsed, cutting off the wells' water supply. These people literally had plenty of water one day and no water the next day. Would you want this to happen to you, or your friends and family? Right now there is nothing to say that it can't.  What's more, it could happen over and over again to the same homeowners, as long as excavation continues below the water table.  Would you want to have to pay over and over again to constantly keep drilling deeper and deeper wells?  This article would not prevent commercial excavation. It would limit how deep commercial excavation can go in relation to the water table.  It would simply protect the groundwater that feeds private wells.

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