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THE ARTESIAN WATER SUPPLY OF EASTERN FLORIDA. 
LOCAL DETAILS 
CHESTER SHOALS. 
Some fifteen miles from Titusville through Banana Creek 
is the Chester Shoals Life Saving Station and Canaveral Club 
House. At this Club House an artesian well was drilled about: 
1890. It is a three-inch well and the original depth was 222 feet. 
The amount of casing used could not be learned. The well in sub¬ 
sequent years decreased in flow, and in order to get a sufficient 
amount of water for general use it became necessary to deepen the 
well. In 1905 Capt. Alex. Near continued the drilling to 297 feet. 
The well now gives an abundance of water strongly impregnated 
with hydrogen sulphide and tasting slightly brackish although not 
so much so as to condemn it for general purposes. 
CITY POINT. 
Flowing wells are obtained along the shore of Indian River -at 
City Point. Between the village on the river and the City Point 
depot on the Florida East Coast Railway there is quite an eleva¬ 
tion, evidently an old sand dune. The elevation of this ridge, ac¬ 
cording to barometric readings is about fifty feet above the level of 
the water in the river. A well sunk here some years ago failed to 
flow, although the water rose to within a few feet of the surface. 
A well owned by S. Hendry is reported to have a depth of about 
160 feet. The elevation of the well is approximately twenty feet 
above the water in Indian River. The pressure of this well as in¬ 
dicated by the pressure gauge March 5, 1910, was five pounds, or 
sufficient pressure to cause the water to rise 11.5 feet above the sur¬ 
face or approximately 31.5 feet above the river level. 
The following is an analysis of the water from this well. Anal¬ 
ysis made for the State Survey in the office of the State Chemist, 
A. M. Henry, analyst: 
Constituents. 
Silica (Si02) ... 
Chlorine (Cl) . 
Sulphates (SO4) ... 
Phosphates, (PO4) .. 
Carbonates (CO3) ......... - 
Bicarbonates (HCO3) . 
Sodium and Potassium (Na & K) 
Magnesium (Mg) .............. 
Calcium (Ca) ... 
Iron and Alumina (Fe & Al) 
Loss on ignition . ... 
Total dissolved solids ... 
Parts per Million. 
... 17.00 
... 2248.00 
. 207.00 
. 8.00 
____ 0.00 
. 168.00 
.......... 1174.00 
.. 116.00 
....... 440.00 
............ r.oo 
.. 960.00 
. 5053-do 
