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While drought areas in the eastern U.S. have received above-normal precipitation during the last 3 months and streams and reservoirs have risen, groundwater supplies remain low. Wells were still going dry this month around Maryland and Virginia. According to media reports (Washington Post, 11/17), water use restrictions remained in effect in towns that are dependent on groundwater for their water supplies.
In Central Maryland, 1,465 wells have failed this year -- more than three times the normal number of failing wells. Maryland's Eastern Shore fared slightly better, with 1,066 wells failing this year compared with about 630 normally (Washington Post, 11/17).
Virginia has also had thousands of wells fail -- double the number usually encountered (Washington Post, 11/17).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64856-2002Nov16?language=printer
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According to USGS reports, the real-time well in Baltimore County, Maryland, is a deep well and in November has responded to the recent rains, after 15 months of declining water levels. But, it is still below the record low levels set in the 1960s.
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/md/nwis/uv?format=gif&period=31&site_no=392045076512501
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