48 
ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. 
[BULL. 138. 
List of deep wells in the Coastal Plain Region of New Jersey — Continued. 
Location. 
Depth. 
Bore. 
Capacity per 
minute. 
Height 
to which 
water 
rises. a 
Geologic horizou. 
Remarks. 
Feet. 
655 
135-145 
85 
345 
80 
163 
132 
113 
142 
68 
120 
340 
139-149 
Inches. 
Gallons. 
Flows 300. 
40 
20 
Feet. 
Flows. 
—40 
—40 
In great diatom 
bed. 
> Chesapeake 
960-foot Atlantic 
City horizon. ? 
In Matawan 
Basal Matawan ?. . 
do 
Temperature 63°. 
Do 
Do 
4 
Fairsupply. 
Do . 
Do 
2 
Fair supply . 
8 
8 
Do 
—19 
—50 
—10 
do 
Do 
Basal Matawan. . . 
In Matawan 
Basal Matawan . . . 
Woodbury, 1 mile 
north. 
Woodbury, 2 miles 
south. 
6 
360 
+ 1 
—18 
Lower Marl. 
In Baritan 
Do. 
feet above the surface ; 
feet below the surface. 
NOTES ON THE WELLS OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY. 
Much of the information regarding the wells in southern New Jersey 
has been obtained from the reports of the geological survey of the 
State, and particularly from the admirable contributions by Mr. Wool- 
man in these reports. Considerable additional data have been supplied 
by various persons, mainly well borers. The material from the New 
Jersey reports has been condensed as far as practicable, and in some 
cases has been modified in the light of more recent well experience or 
geologic investigation. 
I shall indicate in footnotes the source of information when it is taken 
from the New Jersey reports, but can not in every case. indicate modi- 
fications or additional comments which I have made. 
Abseconj 1 Atlantic County. — The earlier water supply for Atlantic 
City was derived from a series of shallow wells on the mainland near 
the shore road, midway between Absecon and Pleasantville. The 
wells are 54 in number and 24 feet deep. They are on low ground, 
near tide level, and flow into two large basins. The records of the 
borings are as follows : 
Feet. 
0-9 heavy white gravel, with fossiliferous pebbles. 
9-18 bluish clay, containing marine diatoms of recent age 
18-24 coarse sand, with water of excellent quality. 
Mr. Woolman has discovered a similar bed of diatomaceous clay, 
overlain by gravels with fossiliferous pebbles, on the shores of Great 
l L. Woolman, in Now Jersey report for 1892, pp. 283-285. 
