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V.—On two Borings for Water at Hinckley, Leicestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. J. Pickering
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Though Hinckley is now possessed of an excellent supply of water brought from the Lower Keuper Sandstone of Snarestone, in North-West Leicestershire, up to 1891 it had an unenviable reputation for abortive water-schemes. Some £20,000 had been spent in considering eighteen different propositions and in carrying out three deep borings within a few miles of the town. During this time six consulting engineers were called in by the local authority. All these schemes failed, not through any lack of water—for this was obtained from the Waterstones of the Lower Keuper in almost unlimited quantity—but because it was found impossible to shut out the chlorides and sulphates from the gypsiferous Keuper Marls through which the borings passed.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , February 1916 , pp. 68 - 73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1916

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page 69 note 1 Six-inch map, Leicestershire 42 N.E.; one-inch New Series map 169 (Nuneaton); one-inch Old Series geological map 63 S.W. Height above O.D. about 410 feet. Rest-level of water about 80 feet from surface. Pumping-test at a depth of 305 feet yielded 1,400 gallons per hour. Old sunk well 41 feet, new borehole 267 feet; total depth 308 feet. Made by Messrs. Peacock & Bird, Hinckley. Commenced July 23, 1913; abandoned January, 1914. Chisel used throughout.

page 70 note 1 Six-inch map, Leicestershire 42 N.E.; one-inch New Series map 169 (Nuneaton); one-inch Old Series geological map 63 S.W. Height above O.D. about 327 feet. Engineer, Mr. Chas. J. Ell, Luton, Beds. Commenced February, 1915; work suspended following August.

page 72 note 1 Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1875, p. 136; for 1879, p. 160.Google Scholar

page 72 note 2 Ibid. for 1882, p. 226; for 1883, p. 154; for 1887, p. 364.