Talk:Borehole

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Question[edit]

Can anyone explain in fine detail what 'hand auger bore holes' are? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.140.27.114 (talk) 15:39, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Engineering Disciplines[edit]

I have added the paragraph refering to the use of the term borehole in various Engineering disciplines including Environmental Consulting. This section should likley be expanded as I have not covered it in any great detail, but there is a great deal more information related to it's use in environmental assessment alone. It may be perhaps best suited to a completly new article. Dirkblack 20:58, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

rewriting[edit]

Good Lord, this article sucks. A large part of it ought to be merged with water well, though apparently someone wanted to make a distinction between drilled wells and hand-dug or hand-operated wells, and created this article. The article also reads partly like it's from some sort of brochure promoting the use of drilled wells in the third world, rather than discussing the possible uses of boreholes. I've started on a rewrite of it; I'll try to fix the rest later. Argyriou (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Needs major redo[edit]

As usual I find myself following Argyriou around to terms used in the professional earth/engineering/geology fields and agree completely with both comments above. I tried to help this one out but the only way to save it I think is for someone to have the courage to remove nearly the entire section on boreholes used as water wells. Then it can be properly redone describing boreholes as boreholes. I'm afraid we must kill this baby to save it. Drillerguy 18:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed most discussion as a water well[edit]

Having heard no response otherwise, I removed most of the previous writing using the term "borehole" as a misnomer for rural water wells. The water wells article (while still not great) overtook anything of value on the old version of this page. If the original authors would like to contribute regarding the use of boreholes as water wells please do so in the water wells article rather than here. Thanks! Drillerguy 17:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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