A 15-Year-Old Farm Girl Warned Four Engineers Not to Drill There—By Dusk, Muddy Water Was Exploding From the Ground and They Were Searching for Her
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Chapter 14 - The Holloway Lesson Becomes the Dawson RecordBy the following spring, the redesigned facility was underway.
Upper bench.
Firm ground.
No uncontrolled water strikes.
The lower bottomland was removed from development.
Meridian placed most of it under a conservation easement.
Part public relations.
Part environmental mitigation.
Part engineering common sense.
The buried channel would remain undisturbed.
Nora submitted the final hydrogeological report to the county.
Official designation:
Dawson-Walter Paleochannel.
Emily read it three times.
“Why Walter?”
Nora smiled.
“Because your grandfather documented it before any of us.”
Emily’s eyes filled.
Walter was well enough to understand when Thomas brought the report to Helena.
He touched the map with one trembling finger.
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“About time they drew it right.”
Emily laughed and cried at once.
