The Locked Cistern That Started Filling in a Droughted County
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The Locked Cistern That Started Filling in a Droughted County
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A locked concrete cistern that had been bone dry for at least fifteen years began overflowing in the worst drought on record - fresh, cold water running down its outside wall in a county where livestock ponds had cracked open. How did a sealed tank with no pipes, pumps, or electrical conduit suddenly start spilling water, and what happened after a phone call made that same week?
In this episode, you’ll hear how routine checks by two women on a six-hundred-acre lease led to a sheriff’s deputy, a hydrologist from Texas Tech, and a regional journalist visiting Vermeer Road, and how experts pieced together a scientific explanation - but one phone call remained unexplained. Can hydraulic jacking and a perched aquifer fully account for what Janet Chambers and Tracy Evans found?
Person: Janet Chambers
Person: Tracy Evans
Location: Vermeer Road, eastern edge of Lasso County, Texas
Date: February 9, 2011
Expert: Gordon Alvarez, hydrologist from Texas Tech
- The cistern measured roughly eight feet tall and six feet across and was bolted to a poured footing sealed with hydraulic cement applied in the 1970s.
- The cistern had been reportedly empty since the land trust took ownership sometime in the 1990s and wore a decorative padlock.
- Janet Chambers found a thin stream of fresh, cold water running down the outside wall at 6:40 a.m, on February 9, 2011.
- Tracy Evans called ranch hand Pete Solis every Wednesday at 9 p.m. throughout that winter; some calls ran past 11 p.m.
- Hydrologist Gordon Alvarez found a lens of saturated soil nine feet down - a perched aquifer - and described the mechanism as hydraulic jacking.
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