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V.—On some recent Wells in Dorset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. H. Hudleston
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The requirements of towns, and even of camps, in the matter of water supply are so great nowadays that surface waters are avoided as likely to be contaminated, and there is consequently a great desire to rely on deeper sources. Quite an official literature has sprung up of late years, and important memoirs have been issued by the Geological Survey on the “underground sources” of several counties. So far as I am aware there has been no official memoir relating to the county of Dorset, and this probably arises from the circumstance that the artesian principle has not been made use of to any great extent until recently, although the Dorset syncline would seem to bo eminently suitable for artesian wells.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 5 , Issue 5 , May 1908 , pp. 212 - 220
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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page 214 note 1 (1)“Worgret Hill and the Wareham Water Supply”: Proc. Dorset Field Club, vol. xxvii (1906)Google Scholar. (2)“Artesian Wells in Dorset and elsewhere”: ibid., vol. xxviii (1907). By permission ol the Council of the Dorset Field Club.

page 214 note 2 The Ordnance 6 in. map is contoured at 50 and 100 feet. The intermediate contours on the Plan were fixed approximately by myself and Mr. Bloomfield during the Winter of 1905–6.

page 215 note 1 The cross roads in the centre of “Wareham mark 21·1 feet above O.D.

page 215 note 2 For a diagrammatic sketch of the Trough of Wareham see Proc. Dorset Field Club, vol. xxiii, p. 148.Google Scholar

page 217 note 1 The late Mr. L. W. Pike informed Mr. Drew that throughout the area of Furzebrook and Grange, where his operations for clay were carried on, he invariably encountered at the same level a body of water which he believed to be identical with that found in the well at Worgret.

page 217 note 2 See Proc. Dorset Field Club, vol. xxiii, pp. 149, 150, article “Creechbarrow.”Google Scholar

page 219 note 1 This estimate was subsequently increased to 125 feet.