U.S. Geological Survey digs Trinitas

The mystery surrounding the exact nature of the aquifer that feeds the western end of Calaveras County may soon be solved.

The U. S. Geological Survey is in the process of digging a 500-foot well on The Ridge at Trinitas property in Wallace. Mike and Michelle Nemee, who own the Ospital Road property, deeded an easement to the Calaveras County Water District for the project late last year.

“The Nemees are still keeping their promise to the community,” CCWD Director Jeff Davidson said Thursday at the drill site. “They are the only ones who stepped up to offer property for this project.”

Davidson said CCWD appreciates, despite the Nemees' losing their bid to build a golf resort and then to have their 18-hole golf course deemed an agritourism activity, that they kept their word and let the monitoring well be installed.