Even in ancient times, people, when searching for groundwater, resorted to using plants. Bright, green vegetation can indicate the presence of hidden underground sources. If the soil around you is dry and cracked, and the greenery looks like it has just rained, there is no doubt groundwater is there.
Water is held in the ground by special layers that prevent the veins from reaching the surface or going too deep. Often the basis of these layers is clay, but in some cases they consist of stones.
In the summer, when the sun is gradually disappearing behind the horizon or is just beginning to rise, you need to carefully monitor the territory. If the waters run near the surface of the earth, fog will appear there, creeping close to the soil or coming out in clubs. The immediate depth of water occurrence depends on the density of the fog: dense fog indicates the proximity of the vein.
I’ll tell you about plants that serve as indicators and help determine the depth of water:
- 1. Wild currant. If the bushes are overgrown on dry soil, most likely there is groundwater near the surface of the earth.
- 2. For a long time people believed that willow grows where there is water. Therefore, the plant was a pointer when searching for underground sources.
- 3. Availability meadowsweet indicates a shallow groundwater table. As a rule, meadowsweet grows in swamps, on the banks of water bodies, on the walls of ravines.
- 4.Black or gray alder, forest reeds. The presence of these plants on the plot of land shows that underground waters pass at a depth of no more than 3 meters.
- 5. Sorrel. Some peoples consider this plant to be an indicator of underwater sources.
- 6. In places where groundwater passes shallow, they feel great cinquefoil, foxglove, horse sorrel, coltsfoot, sedge, reeds, horsetail and nettle.
- 7. Also, they grow well above underground springs alder and willow. In addition, the slope of the plants shows the direction of the water flow.
- 8. Often grow on aquifers Oak trees.
- 9. Sycamore can also be found far from open bodies of water. This means that it is fed by underground sources.
- 10. Plantings naked licorice often appear in places where the depth of groundwater does not exceed 2 meters.
- 11.Cherry, apple and plum trees poorly tolerated underground sources. If the plants begin to hurt, dry out, this may indicate the proximity of groundwater.
I also advise you to pay attention to the following point: even in dry weather, plants fed from underground sources look lush, bright, green. They are surrounded by various insects, and moles and mice do not harm the root system.
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