I'm in a much better mood today. The well drillers have hit 300 feet and their gut feeling is we have in the neighborhood of 400-450 gallons per minute capacity. This means that we can dig a second well and have the necessary capacity to properly water the golf course WITHOUT the costly and disruptive construction of a retention pond.
This is great news, but it's not time to jump up and down and "a git to hollerin'" just yet. The estimate of yield is based solely on the drillers 30+ years experience and the amount of water burping up during the drilling process. The rubber will meet the road when they return to hook a pump up to the well and test capacity. . Also, this will give them important clues as to the nature of the aquifer and how far laterally the well is drawing water. This is important to us as it will tell us how far away well #2 will have to be from well #1 to avoid overworking the supply while watering the golf course.
Overall, if this plan works, the plan to correct this golf course's greatest flaw will be much more simple. We dig another well, get some new pumps (that I must continually remind you we will need anyways REGARDLESS of where we choose to get our water in the near future) and a new pump station (which we will also need anyways) and hook 'em up to the golf course. No more dam in the creek holding back flood water (and no more downstream neighbors bitching about it), no more bulldozers in the creek, no more worrying about the quarry sending us enough water, no more pipes and sprinklers full of "creek turds", no more nightly shut-downs from debris, no more worrying about the army corps of engineers taking out our dam, no more excuses not to spend every dime we can on new bunkers, and a much more reliable source of clean, cool water for the golf course for decades to come.
Not to mention I will sleep much better in the summer.
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