Muha said he approached the national water utility NamWater in 2016 on the issue and in the same year, they responded that six
boreholes were going to be drilled at the village.
class="font-size--16 MsoNormal"He is making a kill there selling water by competing with the company." class="font-size--16 MsoNormalHIGH PRICES class="font-size--16 MsoNormalMr Kados said there are over 3,000 commercial
boreholes in Nairobi and that more are drilled everyday so regulation is necessary.
Speaking further on the likely environmental problems which indiscriminate drilling of
boreholes might cause, Dr.
BGS replied: "Most of the
boreholes have a modest impact on the landscape.
Elton Parish Council raised concerns around potential contamination of the water table as many of the planned
boreholes are shallow.
When the blaster is loading if the fallback is less than this average, meaning the
borehole is too long, the blaster can simply kick some drill cuttings in to raise it to proper height.
The G-function at the distance r = [r.sub.bin] of the
borehole at time t has the expression
To find the stemming and charge length, one would then divide the
borehole length into four sections and the stemming would be 1/4 of the
borehole length.
* Small amount of water in the bottom of a
borehole desensitized ANFO in the toe; and
Optimization of
borehole sealing material determines the success of
borehole sealing [6].
Other
borehole logging techniques have garnered the attention of hydrogeologists over the last two decades.
The depth of the
borehole depends on the location, but in the case of Ndomoni, it took the drilling machines (rented from Mtwara, 200 kilometres away) five days to penetrate 120 metres down, through bedrock, to find water, at a cost of $130,000 TZS (nearly $80 Cdn) per metre.
