artesian well - 11/01/02 10:46 PM
I spent a year in Port Deposit, MD back in the thirties, in a house that had an artesian well.
The well was perhaps thirty feet ll below the level of the hill behind the house, and a continuous
5 gallons or more of water flowed from the faucet constantly, day and night. I was told that it was
an artesian well, but it was a long time before I knew the origin of the name.
artesian - 1830, from Fr. artésien "of Artois," French
province where such wells were first bored 18c.
A tilted porous rock layer ran from the house upwards under the hill behind it.
The well was perhaps thirty feet ll below the level of the hill behind the house, and a continuous
5 gallons or more of water flowed from the faucet constantly, day and night. I was told that it was
an artesian well, but it was a long time before I knew the origin of the name.
artesian - 1830, from Fr. artésien "of Artois," French
province where such wells were first bored 18c.
A tilted porous rock layer ran from the house upwards under the hill behind it.