What are Ob Wells?

Groundwater elevation in southern Beltrami County has been decreasing since May of 2001.  This is good news for many Beltrami County homeowners, who have experienced groundwater flooding in the previous three years. 

Shallower wells (<15’) fluctuate the greatest with precipitation and are the areas that impact homeowners the most.  We saw a mean 23-inch drop in groundwater in shallow wells from 1999 to 2003.  The other two groups of wells have also shown a drop in groundwater from 1999 to 2003. The medium depth wells (15-30’) have decreased 39.6 inches.  The deep wells (>30’) fluctuate the least.  These wells have decreased 22.4 inches. The decrease in groundwater is directly related to precipitation decreases in all three of these cases.   

 The data that is collected from these observation wells are provided to the county, townships, and are available to anyone else who needs the data to make good land use management decisions. 

 

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We currently measure depth to groundwater monthly (except January & February) in 19 wells scattered around the southern half of Beltrami location. well locations are shown in the map below.

Observation well locations

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This password protected site provides on-line access for uploading observation well data.