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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 50730" data-attributes="member: 389">Yes, West Fargo does get water from wells.  The problem here though is that what is generally called the West Fargo Aquifer (it's broken down into a few different aquifers that kind of behave individually) is buried under 60-90 ft of clay.  So this aquifer system is essentially a buried remnant of sands left over from the glaciation and Lake Agassiz times.  Being buried under all of that clay leaves recharge to be an almost non-player in water availability.  Thus, the water that is in the West Fargo Aquifer system is essentially a bank account with no income and a lot of outgo.  At this point it is foolish to continue to regularly use the WF aquifer since it's water levels just continue to fall.  It should probably be left as a reserve/backup to a surface water supply (the Sheyenne River).  The problem with doing that is we generally use different water treatment techniques for surface water versus groundwater.- - - Updated - - -It's been looked at, but if you've been to the RRV, one of the first things that kind of grabs your attention is just how flat of a "valley" it really is.  So where exactly would a person build a new water supply reservoir of any size?  One of the possible solutions for a water supply feature was to build a large retention structure through excavation in the Fargo area.  The problem with this solution was one of water quality.  Any feature like this would be relatively shallow and go through substantial evaporative concentration of naturally occurring salts and contaminants.Another water supply concept was one I lovingly called the re-flush.  It was a pipeline that would take RR water from somewhere north of Grand Forks and transport it back to either the Sheyenne, or the Fargo area.  Expensive, yes.  Would it work, yes.  Do people like their water supply coming from downstream of their sanitary sewers, not so much.</blockquote>

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