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SOME ESSEX WELL-SECTIONS.
4. Just cast of the entrance road and just south of the high road.
1892.
Pumped, with a pump of 7 inches diameter, for four or five
hours, at the rate of 20,000 gallons an hour. Mr. Reed says that
the bulk of the water came (in this and in 5) from between 50 and
75 feet down, from a bed of flints, and that the water was fresh and
good.
5. Close to 4. 1892.
Tested, with a pump of 7 inches diameter, at the rate of 101,000
gallons an hour, lowering the water-level 10 feet. Mr. Reed notes
merely a trifle less, 2,422,224 gallons a day of twenty-four hours.
Water fresh ; hardness 38.7°.
(47.) Rayne.—Rayne Hall.
Sunk and communicated by Mr. G. Ingold.
(47.) Sheering.
Two wells. Made and communicated by Mr. G. Ingold. 1894.
1. Mr. Mann's Cottages.
Shaft throughout. Water rose to within 281/4 feet of the surface.
Large quantities of air bubbled up through the water for several