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RE: Strange thing

I suspect that maybe there is a broken water pipe to blame?
I have come across this phenomenon before, out in the sticks miles from
anywhere (200 km North East of Perth, Western Australia) I found a
little swamp in the middle of a bone dry area on the side of a hill.
There was a loverly crop of weeds growing happily!
When I looked closer you could just seed a small upwelling of water in
the middle of this wet patch.  I dug down into the middle and water just
poured up! the further I dug the more violent the water gushed untill at
about 40-50 cm's down a thin stream of water shot straight up at me
reaching about 4-5 metres high. I found the pipe pretty quickly after
that!
The owner of the pipeline had suspected a leak since he noticed his
pressure had dropped but hadn't found the leak despite looking for some
months, not suprising as the pipline ran for many kilometres and passed
through some pretty rough ground.  I'm certainly glad I didn't put it
down.


Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group
Agriculture Western Australia

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>From: 	Bjarcia@aol.com
>Sent: 	Monday, 10 February 1997 5:42 AM
>To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: 	Strange thing
>
>Today i was out riding the bike. I always pass by this elementary school
>thats surrounded byt many acacia trees ( many that grew on their own) a few
>ceanothus, a scraggly manzanita and strangest of all.....a small group of
>tule or cattail ( are they the same) it isnt flowering, and some willow
>saplings! When i went up close to investigate i noticed it had the smell of a
>pond area, and a continuous flow of water was seepig up out of the reed
>area.i scratched the dirt and sure enough, water kept coming up. now along
>the edge of this wet spot there was an ant nest. right along the edge. My
>question is, since its on a sandy hillside, what could be happening? could it
>be on the border of a small aquifer? all the houses below the hill have bone
>dry yards. what could possibly have happened here?
>
>BJ
>
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