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Full Down Well Videos

The following links are downloadable versions of each of the full down well investigation videos used to populate this site. They are categorized by the county they were taken in and below the link are notes on the video. The map below also shows where video has been obtained, the blue dots being the counties where video footage has been taken.

 

Bell County

Bell Well 1 - Part 1 - Date unknown.

Bell Well 1 - Part 2 - Date unknown.

Bell Well 2 - Part 1 - July 1996.

Bell Well 2 - Part 2 - July 1996.

 

Bourbon County

Bourbon Well 1 - Gas eminating from well wall. April 2004.

 

Breckenridge County

Breckenridge Well 1 - Fractures & open bore hole, upwelling & critter at bottom, September 2003.

 

Calloway County

Calloway Well 1 - Screened well. December 1997.

Calloway Well 2 - 24 inch bored well. August 1993.

Calloway Well 3 - Iron bacteria in screen. Date unknown.

 

Carroll County

Carroll Well 1 - Part 1 - November 1995.

Carroll Well 1 - Part 2 - There is a gap in between the casing and well borehole. November 1995.

 

Crittenden County

Marion Well 1 - Abandoned fluorspar mine dewatering well constructed in mine shaft. December 2011.

Marion Well 2 - Abandoned water-supply well. December 2011.

 

Elliott County

Elliott Well 1 - Hole in steel well casing, and horizontal fractures. August 1998.

 

Graves County

Graves Well 1 - Bacterial growth on sides of well. July 1995.

 

Hardin County

Hardin Well 1 - Good example of formational changes, horizontal fracturing, and small cave. November 1995.

Hardin Well 2 - Poor quality video, red color to the water. August 1994.

 

Harlan County

Harlan Well 1 - Part 1 - Slow leaks. Date Unknown.

Harlan Well 1 - Part 2 - Slow leaks, and rip in steel casing. Date unknown.

Harlan Well 2 - Debris, fractures and caves. Date unknown.

 

Henderson County

Henderson Well 1 -Surface water leaking into well, rusting and scaling of the steel casing, worm in well, and debris in well. October 1999.

 

Hickman County

Hickman Well 1 - "Cased out" well. September 1999.

 

Jessamine County

Jessamine Well 1 - Well pit with casing flush with pit floor, caves, fractures, water dripping from casing bedrock interface. Date unknown.

 

Knott County

Knott Well 1 - Horizontal fractures. Date unknown.

Knott Well 2 - Leak in well borehole. April 1996.

Knott Well 3 - Leak in well borehole, possible fungus growing on well casing. January 1999.

 

Letcher County

Letcher Well 1 - Double pitless adaptor. July 1993.

 

Magoffin County

Magoffin Well 1 - Part 1 - Leak in well borehole. October 1993.

Magoffin Well 1 - Part 2 - Debris lodged in well. October 1993.

 

Marshall County

Marshall Well 1 - Limestone fractures, and suspended solids in well water. Date unknown.

Marshall Well 2 - Multiple well sites, staining on wells casings. June 1999.

Marshall Well 3 - Debris in well. August 1993.

 

Meade County

Meade Well 1 - Pitless adaptor, large fractures. September 1991.

 

Nelson County

Nelson Well 1 - Mice in well and caves. Date unknown.

 

Perry County

Perry Well 1 - Multiple wells. May 1986.

 

Pike County

Pike Well 1 - Gas eminating from bedrock. September 1995.

Pike Well 2 - Date unknown.

 

Trigg County

Trigg Well 1 - Fractures and voids. July 1995.

 

Wolfe County

Wolfe Well 1 - Leak in well borehole. November 1996.

 

Unknown County

Unknown Well 1 - Date unknown.

Unknown Well 2 - August 1993.

Unknown Well 3 - Roots in well. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 4 - Leak in well borehole. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 5 - Flooded well pit, leak at casing/bedrock interface. April 1998.

Unknown Well 6 - Multiple wells, crayfish @ 27 minutes. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 7 - Leaks in well borehole, hole in steel casing, white substance growing on casing. 1991.

Unknown Well 8 - Part 1 - Red and cloudy water. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 8 - Part 2 - Red and cloudy water. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 9 - Part 1 - Plant growth and fly in well. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 9 - Part 2 - Pump in use. Date unknown.

Unknown Well 10 - Date Unknown

 

 

 

 


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