Artesian Well Digging on the Memphis Greenline

More pictures that stayed in my cell phone until I could transfer them without paying Verizon.  I mean, I bought the phone, I'm not leasing it; but they disabled some features in the phone (Motorola E815) before they sold it to me (or had Motorola do it before shipping), like being able to transfer multimedia to/from my PC through USB, Motorola Phone Tools, and the cable that came with it.  I had to buy a memory card as a workaround.

Anyway, I snapped these taking a walk on the Vollentine-Evergreen Greenline, a stretch of abandoned L&N Railroad right-of-way.  I suspect MLG&W is drilling a new artesian well with this rig, because there are several other wells along the Greenline.  I made an inquiry to the appropriate MLG&W official requesting details and received the following from several personnel responding:

This well was a replacement well in the Mallory wellfield. When MLGW purchases well lots, it is done with the intention of having enough real estate to drill two to three wells on that lot. Well 35B is the third well to be drill on this particular lot. Every year, Water Engineering & Operations assess the water well needs of every station. During the last assessment, it was decided that Mallory's wellfield needed more reliable wells. MLGW anticipates wells to last at least 35 years.

This well is about 80% complete, so costs are still accumulating. The estimated total cost of the well is $500,000.