English translation: water abstraction (borehole), lifting (sump, pit)
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French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) / drilling boreholes
French term or phrase:captage, relevage
Forage verticaux tous terrains: captage eau, piétomètres, micropieux
Puits tous diamètres: captage, relevage
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Given that these are two different types of well or borehole, I am getting a bit tangled over whether to use nouns or adjectives - a puits de relevage is a pumped well, and I had been translating captage as water catchment...any help from water specialists appreciated.
Explanation: I think the secret lies in the two words used. A "forage" (borehole) can be drilled for micropiles, piezometers, and water abstraction (commonly simply called a borehole, just as a "well" is ... well, a well). Except when drilling for and finding oil, when a borehole is a well.
And of course a well is a larger diameter, big enough at least to put a pussy in, if not swing a cat. In fact they take many shapes and forms, like cats, and one of these, the "puits de relevage" is the pit or sump into which water is drained and subsequently pumped out.
Unless a piétomètre is an instrument for measuring one's piousness (I think the Jesuits used to use them, on thumbs and testicles mostly ...), this has to be a piézomètre.
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water abstraction (borehole), lifting (sump, pit)
Explanation: I think the secret lies in the two words used. A "forage" (borehole) can be drilled for micropiles, piezometers, and water abstraction (commonly simply called a borehole, just as a "well" is ... well, a well). Except when drilling for and finding oil, when a borehole is a well.
And of course a well is a larger diameter, big enough at least to put a pussy in, if not swing a cat. In fact they take many shapes and forms, like cats, and one of these, the "puits de relevage" is the pit or sump into which water is drained and subsequently pumped out.
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