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levels in the vicinity of Elizabethtown are still
healthy and water withdrawals by the Town
have little effect on the aquifer. Figures 5
and 6 show the importance of keeping records
on static and pumping water levels in wells
constructed in the Coastal Plain to keep a
check on the health of the aquifer and the
wells. Elizabethtown monitors static water
levels daily.
Figure 6
Aquifer cross section
near Elizabethtown
The effects of one groundwater user can
reach across property lines, and even across
counties to affect other users. This is true
not only of groundwater withdrawals from
aquifers, but also on a smaller scale, as
it relates to something as grass-roots as a
wellhead protection plan.
Elizabethtown is a beautiful historic southern
town that is proud to serve its citizens with
pure, good-tasting water. NCRWA is honored
to have Elizabethtown as a system member
of our organization! (Most of the figures in
this article came from the 2002 publication
Bladen County Preliminary Capacity Use
Assessment, NC DWR).
Figure 6
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