Clean, cold water erupted from the discharge pipe. It didn't sputter. It didn't taste of salt. It ran for three days straight without a single drop in the pumping level.
Old Man Vega was stubborn. "The water is there," he growled, pointing at the dry riverbed. "My father said this land sits on a lake." His son, Carlos, a civil engineer, knew it wasn't a lake. It was a buried paleo-valley—an ancient, gravel-filled river channel from the last Ice Age, now buried under 40 meters of clay. APPLIED HYDROGEOLOGY.pdf
The Well That Never Went Dry