What is this concrete structure on rural land?

[sh00ter]

That yours?

no for now.

 

[GorillaG]

Don't know what or where it is but I'm DAMN SURE I'm paying for it judging from my bill.

 

[SoonerP226]

What exactly is artesian water vs water?

The only difference between a water well and an artesian water well is where the well is located.

Let’s say you have a piece of land where the water table is about 10’ under the surface, and there’s a 15’ deep bowl in the middle of it with a layer of impermeable rock just under the surface (so the water can’t come to the surface naturally—that would be a spring, not a well).

If you drill a water well outside the bowl, you’ll have to mechanically lift the water the ten feet to the surface. If you drill another water well in the bowl, the water will flow up to the surface on its own, because it’s five feet below the water table (and water tends to find its own level).

The well outside the bowl is a normal water well, and the well in the bowl is an artesian water well. It’s the exact same water, it’s just that the artesian well is letting gravity do the lifting.

 

[crrcboatz]

The only difference between a water well and an artesian water well is where the well is located.

Let’s say you have a piece of land where the water table is about 10’ under the surface, and there’s a 15’ deep bowl in the middle of it with a layer of impermeable rock just under the surface (so the water can’t come to the surface naturally—that would be a spring, not a well).

If you drill a water well outside the bowl, you’ll have to mechanically lift the water the ten feet to the surface. If you drill another water well in the bowl, the water will flow up to the surface on its own, because it’s five feet below the water table (and water tends to find its own level).

The well outside the bowl is a normal water well, and the well in the bowl is an artesian water well. It’s the exact same water, it’s just that the artesian well is letting gravity do the lifting.

Thanks. Makes sense now

 

[GeneW]

There are a lot of these around but many are relatively unknown because they either produce so litle or are on private land.

There is one in SW Oklahoma named Jaybuckle Spring. It's in Greer County, near Mangum, Sayre, Elk City, for a reference point. You can drive right up to it and get some water. Water is, or at least always has been, good water.

IIRC it's a National landmark of some sort or another. Pretty cool.

 

[enuf]

There was an old 2-story farmhouse in Nebraska City, NE where they had a natural spring that was higher than their house (this is old, like 1800's, but it was still there when I left in 2004). They had installed copper guttering along all of the walls from the top floor all the way to the lower level and into the basement. Water from that spring came in at the top, flowed down through the system and exited out the basement. It was a constant flow, cold water, just take a cup, stick it in the gutter and you have a cold glass of water. It was pretty cool.

 

[leemozoid]

Looks like a concrete cistern.

 

[TerryMiller]

There was an old 2-story farmhouse in Nebraska City, NE where they had a natural spring that was higher than their house (this is old, like 1800's, but it was still there when I left in 2004). They had installed copper guttering along all of the walls from the top floor all the way to the lower level and into the basement. Water from that spring came in at the top, flowed down through the system and exited out the basement. It was a constant flow, cold water, just take a cup, stick it in the gutter and you have a cold glass of water. It was pretty cool.

Speaking of which, in northern Arizona and west of a town called Fredonia, AZ is an old Mormon "tithing" ranch called "Pipe Springs National Monument." It has a pipe running from a spring somewhere and going through the structure to then exit outside the structure to fill "basins" outside. I think they also watered a small orchard on the south side of the structure with that system. There are signs inside cautioning everyone that they are not to drink any water from the system as the pipes are lead.

Pipe Springs National Monument

 

[dennishoddy]

There is a spring that runs 24-7 on the SE part of Ponca. The city has created a little tiny park around it. The Native Americans used it back in the days. My dad used to get the water to make home brew when I was a kid there, but it's labeled not safe for drinking now. We didn't live far from it or the drainage ditch where it heads to the Arkansas River. That ditch was always full of minnows we would trap to take fishing.