HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE (TO GET DOWN BELOW)?

(To the tune of "Why you been gone so long?")

by Howard Hobbs, Minnesota Geological Survey

Ev'ry time it rains, Lord, I run to my window,

All I do is just hang my head and moan -

Is the rain washing down the waste into the a-qua-fi-er:

How long will it take to get down below?

(Chorus):

How long will it take get down below, to get down below, there;

Ev'rybody thinks I am supposed to know ...

The Legislature wants to know, the DNR is asking:

How long will it take to get down below?

Some people say they seen a wetting front descending,

It was traveling by unsaturated flow;

Slippin' through the macropores on its way down to the Jordan:

How long will it take to get down below?

Ev'ry night I dream about those LUSTy hydrocarbons

Diverted by the perched water table below.

In the river they may go, but ev'rybody's happy:

As long as the a-qua-fi-er's safe below.

Nothin' left to do, now the guidelines have been written,

Might as well have a pizza and a beer;

Listen for the sound of s---, when the fan it will be hittin'

When they tell the developer "you can't build it here!"