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Arapiles Bore Dry but business as usual 29-Oct-2008 At 6:59:21 PM Capt_mulch

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>As Wendy has told us, the first
>bore they drilled went dry. Who's to say it won't keep happening. It
>really drives home the point that the campground needs to be able to run
>as a waterless one. Regardless of where the water comes from, a bore or
>trucked in, it is such a waste of a resource that we can't afford to waste.
To reiterate my previous point, bores don't "go dry". What happens is that the soil profile around the drawing point (where the water is drawn out from at the bottom of the bore hole) hardens up due to minerals in the soil clogging up the pores of the soil profile, preventing the flow of water from the surrounding soil profile. The best thing to do is drill another bore. You have to be working REALLY bloody hard to suck the soil profile dry (e.g. Western Queensland where they just run their bores 24/7 and run the water out into "bore drains"). If the Pines bore has been going 19 years (I think that's what someone said), then it has done really well for the service that it has given, and a new bore will probably give another 19 years of service. This is not to say that everyone using the water from the new bore should not treat the water like gold and the (your preferred) godsend that it is. Pi22 under a pine tree and feed your inner hippy...