The Cistern That Drank a Drought: Water Rising From Nowhere
The Cistern That Drank a Drought: Water Rising From NowhereCold, clear water overflowed from a sealed concrete cistern in the middle of a 112-day drought, lifting a cinder block two inches and pooling on ground so dry it had cracked - where could that water have come from? The cistern had been declared dead seven years earlier, yet soil probes later showed sustained subsurface saturation within six feet of the structure; what buried source was waking beneath Cold Flat Ranch?In this episode, you’ll hear how a non-hiker found the overflowing cistern, how the ranch owner’s meticulous ledgers…
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