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Jim Currens Leads a field trip for Protect Your Groundwater Day

 

Sept. 11, 2012 was national Protect Your Groundwater Day, and Jim Currens, of the KGS Water Resources Section, led a field trip of ten people to the Cane Run Watershed / Royal Spring research project. Here, he makes a presentation on the project before heading to several stops on the trip. The first stop in the field trip was the water plant in Georgetown, Ky. Georgetown's main water supply comes from Royal Spring. Jim Currens answers questions about Royal Spring during the Georgetown stop on the field trip.  
Sept. 11, 2012 was national Protect Your Groundwater Day, and Jim Currens, of the KGS Water Resources Section, led a field trip of ten people to the Cane Run Watershed / Royal Spring research project. Here, he makes a presentation on the project before heading to several stops on the trip. The first stop in the field trip was the water plant in Georgetown, Ky. Georgetown's main water supply comes from Royal Spring. Jim Currens answers questions about Royal Spring during the Georgetown stop on the field trip.  
Currens points out some of the equipment at the Georgetown water plant. The second stop on the field trip was the Kentucky Horse Park, where Currens and others in the Water Resources Section have drilled numerous wells to find the conduit through which water from the Cane Run Watershed flows toward Georgetown. A downhole camera was lowered over 60 feet into a well at the Kentucky Horse Park to give a view of the water flowing through the conduit. The live view was visible on a monitor in the back of a KGS truck.  
Currens points out some of the equipment at the Georgetown water plant. The second stop on the field trip was the Kentucky Horse Park, where Currens and others in the Water Resources Section have drilled numerous wells to find the conduit through which water from the Cane Run Watershed flows toward Georgetown. A downhole camera was lowered over 60 feet into a well at the Kentucky Horse Park to give a view of the water flowing through the conduit. The live view was visible on a monitor in the back of a KGS truck.  
On the third stop, Currens talked about several other monitoring wells drilled into the Cane Run Watershed just off Berea Road in Fayette County for the project. Currens removes the locked cap on one of the wells at the Berea Road site.    
On the third stop, Currens talked about several other monitoring wells drilled into the Cane Run Watershed just off Berea Road in Fayette County for the project. Currens removes the locked cap on one of the wells at the Berea Road site.    
       
       

 

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