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Merrill Manufacturing Company is pleased to showcase four no lead bronze insert fittings to accommodate industry needs. RBMANL100 = 6 barbs - Original most popular model RBMANL100L = 9 barbs - NEW 1” x 1” RBMANL100XL = 12 barbs - Extra Long RBMANL1025L = 9 barbs - NEW 1¼” x 1” Merrill Manufacturing is a Valued WWDR Advertiser Oil/Water Exploration by Harold White We are drilling a well about 20 miles from the ocean. Our elevation is about 30 feet above sea level. We are having saltwater seepage, not saltwater intrusion. This seepage is coming in from the east, the same as saltwater creeks and freshwater creeks. The freshwater is below the saltwater seeps. The seeps make the freshwater salty as the freshwater comes up through the salty material in the borehole. The TDS (total dissolved solids) tester shows 10 parts per million, a lower count than the Pacific Ocean’s average between 15-30 TDS. We are 400 feet deep and I detect freshwater below that, and it is 370 feet below the ocean. We have drilled deeper than that and only a couple hundred feet from the ocean. I could throw a rock that far. We got freshwater and there has never been any saltwater intrusion into it. Rivers of saltwater do not come inland higher than high tide and probably not that far. Freshwater creeks formed under the ocean in self-concealed pressures like clay pipe tubes coming from higher elevations are not affected. When water leaves the ocean in the form of gas (hydrogen and oxygen which is lighter than air), floats up where the temperature and the dew point are within 4% of each other, visible moisture can be seen. It forms clouds, rain comes down, and salt and other unwanted chemistry of the earth are carr ied into the ocean. The creeks underground and on top of the ground have been doing this cleaning process since the beginning, or for as long as l can remember. Wel l, it is cold and snowing and freezing here and across the northern countries. People are dressed for winter. I ask them, “How do you like this cold weather? Are you ready for a little global warming?” and they say, “Sure, we have been hearing about that for years and it is still cold here.” When the weather in some, or most of the Rocky Mountains is 40 degrees below zero, it could warm up 70 degrees and still be below freez- ing there, not counting the chill factor. Harold Harold White may be contacted via e-mail to michele@ worldwidedrillingresource.com 37 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® FEBRUARY 2018