artesian well

Noun

Meaning

a well drilled through impermeable strata into strata that receive water from a higher altitude so there is pressure to force the water to flow upward

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‘When I say "mind,”' said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.' P. G. Wodehouse

Every beer is brewed with chalk-filtered mineral water from the brewery’s own artesian well, deep below the brewery, and 93% of the hops used in its beers are grown in Kent. Source: Internet

Pure water from an artesian well was discovered in the 1880s, securing the city's water supply. Source: Internet

Recent efforts to protect and preserve the free flowing artesian well on 4th Ave in downtown Olympia began in 1991 when Jim Ingersoll, a local psychologist, called on the city council to acquire the well and develop it as a community park. Source: Internet

The city decided in 1882 to build an artesian ditch to control the "Frog Pond" effects; the plan was later upgraded and developed into an artesian well in 1884 to combat the heavy rains and keep the basements from flooding. Source: Internet

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