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Southeastern Alberta | Not possible. About the only place that there would be an area good enough for an irrigation well would be just down slope of the Waterton Reservoir. It was built over top of a gravel seam, and has to be drained with large culverts to keep the ground below the reservoir from being completely saturated!
Our glacial till soils do not allow enough percolation to recharge any aquifer below, and there really isn't anything below the tills that is porous enough or has enough water in it to be of any value for high volume irrigation.
As a side note, some areas of the Milk River aquifer have enough natural gas in it that wells can be lit and a flame will stay. | |
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irrigation wells in S. Alberta
