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Located in section 8 of the southwest 1/4 of the southwest 1/4 of Township 10 South Range 9 West, near the Riverbed station of the pony express.
River Bed Trail Well
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Artesian Well Park
11 Monday Dec 2017
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Geology, historic, Parks, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, utah, Wells
Artesian Well Park in Salt Lake City is a small urban park that contains a natural artesian spring fed by an underground aquifer. It occupies a quarter acre on the southwest corner of the intersection between 800 South and 500 East. People from all over the surrounding area have been coming to get water for free from this spring for over 100 years.
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April 2020 – They are renovating the park.
While pulling granite from a quarry in Little Cottonwood Canyon, early Mormon settlers and their oxen stopped on this site to imbibe the refreshing water.
The settlers have long since passed, but the temple still stands, the water still runs, and the settlers’ offspring – and many others – still linger here to rest and refresh themselves.
This is an artesian well. Artesian water is water held in a porous rock layer, under a small amount of pressure, between two solid rock layers. An artesian well is different from an artesian spring in that its water doesn’t surface through a natural opening; instead, a pipe must be put into the ground. The fact that the water flows through the pipe, under natural pressure, without pumping, makes artesian well different from other wells.
This artesian well taps into an aquifer whose recharge area extends from Red Butte Creek underneath the University of Utah. Much of the allure of this site is its natural water with high mineral content and few chemicals.
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Church Well
19 Saturday Nov 2016
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The “Church Well” as it is known, stands on the corner of 200 South and 200 East in Centerville Utah. This well does not flow naturally so a pump system in housed in the building behind the well access. Controls for the pump system are accessible from the well access. Once the well is primed by the pump, and the pump is turned off, the well will flow for two or three minutes. The well is owned and operated by the LDS church, and stands on church property.
190 East 200 South in Centerville, Utah
Located on the site of the Centerville 1879 Church.
Zesiger Park
19 Saturday Nov 2016
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Zesiger Memorial Park
Alfred and Kate Zesiger began raising both family and crops on a 14-acre farm on 400 East from 1000 to 1400 North in 1917. Alfred used a witching stick in 1918 to find underground water for irrigation. Aided by his young sons Fred and Lloyd, Alfred dug a hole 6 feet wide by 70 feet deep on the southeast corner of his farm before finding water. The quality of this pioneer well surprised Utah State officials by consistently producing 450 gallons of water a minute. Later dug to 300 feet, the amazing Zesiger well was procured by Bountiful City and provides city water to this day.
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