All told, his wells pump 60 to 70 barrels a day.
On an average day, wells pump 450 million gallons of water to slake the island's thirst.
The new corn was taking hold, the new wells were pumping more water than the old ones ever had, and the Lovells seemed happy as clams.
It had fallen half to ruin since old Mul Garner's youth, but its well still pumped sweet water.
The wells were no longer pumping.
Some agricultural wells pump at the rate of 2,500 gallons per minute for days at a time.
Finally, wells will pump groundwater to filter contaminants; a water treatment plant is to be the only building on the property.
The wells pump water collecting around the airport over the levee wall back into the Missouri River.
This is also a deep-recharge area, where three public wells are pumping drinking water.
From for feet underground our well pumped lukewarm water.