August 11, 2025 The chart to the right shows the results for our first three years of groundwater monitoring. As explained on our home page, the cooperative has made the difficult decision to suspend operations for a period of two years until we have a better understanding of our community aquifer capacity. We will continue to monitor our well and post the latest information here…
The Beaufort Watershed Steward’s monitoring equipment sits at the bottom of our well and records the water level every 15 minutes. The chart to your right was prepared from those readings (96 data points per day). As expected, water levels drop during the summer months and rise again in the fall and winter
Due to technical (monitoring equipment) “issues”, we are missing data for December 2023, June 2024 and December 2024. Although our well levels remain strong over the summer months, we avoid bottling during July and August.
This is a very good well. It is a dug (not drilled) well – 3 feet in diameter and almost 15 feet deep. The walls are stacked concrete rings that rest on a gravel bed. When locating the well, coop founding member Ken Giles had the good sense to invite a Bowser water-witcher to find the best location. This is why, I am sure, it is so productive and recovers so quickly.
A good candidate for a community well if there ever was one… Let’s see if we can explore more what this might mean over the next two years…
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