soakage

Historical Examples of soakage

• It failed at Erfurt, but, as it is believed the wells were contaminated by soakage, this is perhaps no certain case.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

  Arnold Cooley

• The spring had been stopped, and the viaduct become a sewer; fed doubtless through its rents with the soakage of the city.

  The Captain of the Janizaries

  James M. Ludlow

• This spring or soakage, whichever it may be, is in black sand, though the sand outside the little basin is yellowish white.

  Spinifex and Sand

  David W Carnegie

• So we decided on the northern course, and chose Mount Shenton, near which a soakage was marked, as our objective point.

  Spinifex and Sand

  David W Carnegie

• The visible supply of water was small, and we had grave doubts as to any soakage existing!

  Spinifex and Sand

  David W Carnegie