National well and borehole database

[Penners]

I remember the civil Engineer joke as well.

I always thought that he description "Civil Engineer" was a contradiction in terms.

 

[Feltwell]

I always thought that he description "Civil Engineer" was a contradiction in terms.

So rude! You haven't even met me :roll:

Twas of course from the good old days when engineers came in 2 flavours only - Military and Civil.

Then later on some upstarts came along with things like Electrical & Mechanical and made it all much more complicated. :wink:

 

[Flyfisher]

you lot are having fun with this I see!
Arn't there any professional geologists on this forum? - cos' I could well do with some serious help here......

Didn't Biff have a geology background in a previous life?

 

[MdB]

I studied Civil Engineering at university - and as the old joke goes, look up Civil Engineering in Yellow Pages and it says "See boring".

Get it the right way around....

(not that it does show this any more unfortunately)

 

[Feltwell]

That's because I didn't carry on and get chartered status MdB. If I had they would have taught me advance topics like getting the joke the right way round.

 

[citizensmith]

Very interesting - one of my neighbours has a 200ft borehole though they're only 25ft above sea level, sunk in 1947 but the owner was unable to supply any information in 1969.
It's annotated as
??Drift
Crg
?Lower London Tertories
Chalk

Drift is superficial unconsolidated "modern" stuff like alluvium, and glacial/periglacial deposits. Young stuff only '000s of years old and covering the "proper" rocks below.

Tertories is probably a poor spelling of Tertiaries which is the system that lies above the Cretaceous Chalk and can be all sorts of stuff including sands, gravels and clays and caps/contains the chalk aquifer below it.

I assume the depth is to allow the hole to "recharge" as a narrow diameter hole would very quickly be pumped dry.

 

[AMc]

Thanks citizensmith - it's probably my interpretation of someone else's handwriting rather than a problem with the note taker.

I saw a while back that there was some attempt to get protected status for the title "engineer" too but not sure where....www.theregister.co.uk perhaps?

Of course then you have "software architects" and "software engineers" who can have no actual formal qualifications in their area or decades of experience - the title gives you no clue.

 

[Penners]

An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress.

The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship. The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because of the passion and mystery he found there.

The engineer said, "I like both." "Both?" Engineer: "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get some work done."

 

[Schoolmarm]

It was the zoom and pan bit after clicking on my details that I failed on. I will, try and enable pop ups but don't know how.

You don't need pop ups enabled for this site to work. If you are having problems, then my best guess would be that you are using an internet browser out of the ark. What are you using? (Go to the help menu and click "about" to get this info)

You may also find this link a bit quicker to getting to the site: http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/boreholescans/boreholescans.html

Opera? Latest version. :? 11.01

I can get in the first bit, it is whe I get in the georecords+ and try to get my bit again to purchase. It won't let me use the controls.

 

[LadyArowana]

It was the zoom and pan bit after clicking on my details that I failed on. I will, try and enable pop ups but don't know how.

You don't need pop ups enabled for this site to work. If you are having problems, then my best guess would be that you are using an internet browser out of the ark. What are you using? (Go to the help menu and click "about" to get this info)

You may also find this link a bit quicker to getting to the site: http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/boreholescans/boreholescans.html

Opera? Latest version. :? 11.01

I can get in the first bit, it is whe I get in the georecords+ and try to get my bit again to purchase. It won't let me use the controls.

Have you tried with another browser? I tried looking at something using safari and it didn't work, but with Firefox it was ok. Not that it was exciting when I did get it open though Good luck it sounds like you have something interesting to investigate.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Ok will try firefox.



Tried this but it said "firefox has blocked three popups" how do I turn them off?

 

[LadyArowana]

Ok will try firefox.



Tried this but it said "firefox has blocked three popups" how do I turn them off?

I have had it say that in a yellow header across the top of the page, think it had an option to click on it somewhere and enable them.

 

[Penners]

Opera? Latest version. 11.01

There's nothing wrong with Opera. However some web engineers can be a bit lazy about testing their code in all available browsers. And as Opera is one of the less popular ones out there, this may be a case of that.

 

[Schoolmarm]

I just managed to place an enquiry so I will wait for the reply.

I used firefox.

 

[Schoolmarm]

I just received a reply. They sent it for free as it is a very poor bit of information they hold.


It is the details, or lack of, for the well we currently use as our supply. So at least I know it isn't a secret borehole. 8)

 

[biffvernon]

Very interesting - one of my neighbours has a 200ft borehole though they're only 25ft above sea level, sunk in 1947 but the owner was unable to supply any information in 1969.
It's annotated as
??Drift
Crg
?Lower London Tertories
Chalk

Drift is superficial unconsolidated "modern" stuff like alluvium, and glacial/periglacial deposits. Young stuff only '000s of years old and covering the "proper" rocks below.

Tertories is probably a poor spelling of Tertiaries which is the system that lies above the Cretaceous Chalk and can be all sorts of stuff including sands, gravels and clays and caps/contains the chalk aquifer below it.

I assume the depth is to allow the hole to "recharge" as a narrow diameter hole would very quickly be pumped dry.

[geologist's hard hat on] Yes, that's quite right. A deep bore in the London Basin goes through the Tertiary sands and clays to the Cretaceous Chalk aquifer. In many cases the artesian nature of the basin will produce enough pressure for drinking water to emerge from the top of the bore without the need for pumping.

 

[Penners]

A deep bore in the London Basin