Jacobs Well, What's Happening?

[@DobbysHobbies]

I have an old deep bore water well on my property that I restored a few years ago. Ive noticed a decent drop in my local water table by monitoring my well, I'm a little northeast of dallas. I think this drop in water table is much more widespread than just that aquifer.

[@robertl5754]

@@DobbysHobbies BINGO!

[@jondurr]

Jacob's Well is a perennial karstic spring in the Texas Hill Country flowing from the bed of Cypress Creek, located northwest of Wimberley, Texas.

[@JackParsons2]

We've got way too many people in central Texas for the amount of rainfall we get. The I35 corridor consumes nearly double the amount of water that's required to recharge the aquifers. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s all of the springs from San Marcos, New Braunfels, Wimberly, Blanco, Austin would all be gushing up from the ground with force year round and I know at least half of them don't flow at all anymore and the rest are very sporadic and fluctuate drastically. We're doomed if we don't cap our groundwater consumption immediately.

[@Greymist73]

THIS

[@bigwooly8014]

Part of the problem is that construction and development destroy the ability of the aquifers to recharge. All the divits, gullies, and other low spots that used to retain and slow water runoff are "cleaned up" and smoothed out. This exacerbates flash flooding and erosion, which in turn further hinders perculation to the aquifers. Just limiting ground water usage will not fix the issue of recharge.

[@russford7735]

mismanagement of the resource.

[@RipeOlives]

Too many people and not enough water is not a sustainable picture.

[@robertl5754]

Too many people in Texas are profiting from over development. Nobody wants to stop the gravy train. Too many straws in the ground sucking up our precious resource. Of course, global climate change is greatly adding to the water drying up. We can no longer sustain uncontrolled growth. Our politicians claim they are helpless because big money talks and you know the rest.

[@CG-xr5bz]

Maybe its global warming from all those bombs.

[@GreggFerguson-n6f]

Keep dog out of water

[@robertl5754]

@GreggFerguson-n6f the videos about the well, not the dog!

[@DobbysHobbies]

It's not still water, no problem for the dog.

[@oregonbeachdad]

@@DobbysHobbies Funny he says quite the opposite at the 15 second mark..

[@DobbysHobbies]

@@GreggFerguson-n6f lmao he said it just flowed recently. Deadly still water has to sit still for long periods

[@douchenozzlez]

Too many people spread out all over the place and causes mismanagement of our shared aquifers. This is why suburban sprawl and overfarming is bad.