Drilling report: State Nursery test well No. 1

Technical Report · Fri Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6811978· OSTI ID:6811978

Donovan, J; Sonderegger, J

A geothermal test well was sited and drilled approximately 0.8 miles (1.3 km) east of Broadwater Hot Springs, near Helena, Montana. The site is on the property of the State Nursery, along the north side of Ten Mile Creek. The purpose of the drilling was to test a thermal infrared imagery anomaly and to evaluate whether a source of warm water for space heating of a series of new greenhouses could be developed to replace ones destroyed in the spring 1981 flooding of Ten Mile Creek. The well was drilled to 280 feet total depth, with no success in obtaining hot or even warm water.

• Research Organization: Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: FC07-79ID12033
• OSTI ID: 6811978
• Report Number(s): DOE/ID/12033-T1; ON: DE82021740
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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