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The Locked Cistern That Started Filling in a Droughted County
The Locked Cistern That Started Filling in a Droughted County
A locked concrete cistern that had been bone dry for at least fifteen years began overflowing in the worst drought on record - fresh, cold water running down its outside wall in a county where livestock ponds had cracked open. How did a sealed tank with no pipes, pumps, or electrical conduit suddenly start spilling water, and what happened after a phone call made that same week?
In this episode, you’ll hear how routine checks by two women on a six-hundred-acre lease led to a sheriff’s deputy, a hydrologist from Texas Tech, and a…
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