Nobody wants their well contaminated

Shadrick Sink west of the Withlacoochee River leaks river water east under the river for miles.

Valdosta sunk its wells deeper to get under the river water, avoiding expensive treatment.

In Sustainability of Ground-water Resources,

by William M. Alley Thomas E. Reilly O. Lehn Franke, 1 January 1999,

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey – Publisher,

http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1186/ in Box E on Page 63 ,

The Connection Between Surface-Water Quality

and Ground-Water Quality in a Karst Aquifer

Figure E-1. Estimated percentage of Withlacoochee River water

in ground water in the Upper Floridan aquifer, June 1991.

(Modified from Plummer and others, 1998.)