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How does rainfall affect water table?
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Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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June 29, 2008
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QUESTION: What is the water table, how is it measured and have
the recent snow and rain affected it?
ANSWER: The water table is not easily defined, but it begins at
the top.
"Essentially, the water table is the top layer of the soil that
is saturated with water," said Deron Muehring, civil engineer for
the city of Dubuque. "The more it rains, the more the soil will fill
up with water (and) the higher the water table will climb towards
the surface."
He said the first step to measuring the water table is drilling a
hole in the ground that goes just below the water table. The next
step is to measure the distance from the ground surface to the ...