Speedbump
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Webster doesn't drill wells. I have heard artesian used as a term for a flowing well and a term for a well with a static water level which takes in most wells. Everywhere you go in this US the drilling is different. Some screened wells, some pure rock, some are made with perforated casing. (I still don't know what that's about) it's a California thing for the most part.
This is one explanation I found:
arte'sian well'
a well in which water rises under pressure from a permeable stratum overlaid by impermeable rock.
I forget what expert I heard the non flow part of artesian from, but it's the general consensus among some of us.
Here is another one: Artesian water: Water drawn from a well that taps a confined aquifer in which the water stands above the top of the
aquifer. It is sometimes called artesian well water.
bob...
This is one explanation I found:
arte'sian well'
a well in which water rises under pressure from a permeable stratum overlaid by impermeable rock.
I forget what expert I heard the non flow part of artesian from, but it's the general consensus among some of us.
Here is another one: Artesian water: Water drawn from a well that taps a confined aquifer in which the water stands above the top of the
aquifer. It is sometimes called artesian well water.
bob...