|
|
|
|
Springstone
Closer to the source
a pint of holy water anybody?
|
|
|
|
21.12.04 Holy Well, Holy Water
A couple of weeks of good weather has allowed me to complete all the pipework, blockwork and concreting involved with getting the water to a single point of outlet and I am quite surprised to find the initial measurements are 3.71 litres per second, or just over 320,000 litres per day - not bad for a little old holy well, eh!
This is all spring water, filtered through the rock formations of the hill to the side of the house. It's going to be interesting to see how this flow alters throughout the year and compare this to our rainfall measurements. Only then, after 12 months, will we be able to make estimates about how large the aquifier's storage capacity actually is (small underground lake perhaps).
To measure the output we use a 10 litre container and a stopwatch and measure, to the hundreth of a second, the time it takes to fill the container. We repeat this process three times and take a mean average of these measurements. We use a Psion 5MX for all our 'in the field' environmental computational calculations and feed the data back to an OWW (One Wire Weather) system, which we are designing, for uploading.
Happy Solstice by the way.
|
|
|
