Fairhope, Alabama
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| Drilling new well #11 on CR 33 |
WELL DRILLING CONTINUES
With the end of unusually dry/hot weather conditions and return of normal mid-summer rainfall, water use should return to normal, well within the capacity of the city's system.
From the city website: "Fairhope’s Water Department dates to 1916 when a “modern” steel water
tower was installed behind the city hall (now the Fairhope Museum of
History). Prior to that, from Fairhope’s founding in 1894, residents
relied on a town pump located in the middle of the intersection of
Fairhope Avenue and Section Street. Fairhope’s Water Department is the largest supplier of water in
Baldwin County, with nearly 17,372 hookups, serving an estimated 40,000
people. The City operates five water towers with 6.6 million gallons of
storage and pumps an average of 4.6 million gallons of water a day from
ten wells, all drawing from a vast underground aquifer." (Publisher: This data may not be up to date!)
The drilling of an eleventh well at the site of existing well #10 and 300 thousand gallon water tank on CR 33 in the Marlow area is continuing.
A test well is being drilled to about 200 feet and then if acceptable a production well will be installed down to 400 feet by the contractor, Griner of Spanish Fort.
The adjacent 300K tank is actually not in use at this time, according to Water Department supervisor Langley; it is in need of routine maintenance (painting).
Well #5 (CR 32 at the airport) which had surpassed limits for manganese is now back in use with added purification measures until the new well is finished later this year, Langley said.
Well #4 on S. Section Street was near the limit too.
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| Marlow well site. |
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