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Charles Shepherd, district environmental health manager said. “August, September and October were the three highest months for permits in 1998 with 10 replacement wells being drilled in October. Typically only one or two are drilled in a month.”
Fortunate for those drilling wells, he added, “We don’t normally have a problem finding water in Rappahannock with the average well depth at 90 to 150 feet. We don’t think of Rappahannock as a poor water producer.” Still, wells sometimes fail for no apparent reason even when rainfall is plentiful, Shepherd said, adding that these “nor- *"" mal” replacements generally average one or two a month.
Dennis Wingfield, who has kept weather records as a weather watcher for television station WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. since 1983, said his data shows that the rainfall since 1981 was 50.03 inches annually. For 1998,
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