ABSTRACT
No man, woman. . . dare to wash any unclean linnen, . . . or throw out the water or suds of fowle cloathes . . . within the Pallizadoes, or within forty foote of the same, . . . nor rench and make clean any vessel within 20 foote of the olde well. . . nor shall anyone aforesaid, within lesse than a quarter of one mile from the Pallizadoes, dare to doe the necessities of nature, since by these unmanly, slothfill, and loathsome immodesties, the whole fort may be cloaked, andpoisoned. . . . 7
T HE most common method for withdrawing groundwater is to penetrate the aquifer with a verti-cal well, then pump the water up to the surface. This chapter briefly discusses the sequence of events that occurs in developing a well supply, including well site requirements, type of wells, components of a well, evaluating a well, pumps, operating records, protecting a well from contamination, and well abandonment.
