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Old 02-26-2014, 10:36 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by fotze View Post
Definitely not. The 400 metres of water from a water well would be pretty much unheard of to be that depth for a few reasons. A farmer would not want to drill that deep due to the expense, the water at that depth would not be fit for human consumption. The base of groundwater would be around that depth but water wells would most likely be much shallower in the 50 to 100m in depth.....at the 400 m mark the water would taste very salty.
To be fair, I was showing a worst case for the sake of argument. BGWP is often at 300 to 400 m. Sometimes shallower, sometimes deeper. As you know.
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