Have you ever tried to dig a hole in your Gardiner backyard and marveled at the effort required to scrape deeper and deeper into the dense clay soil?
An underground water supply is called an aquifer, and in Gardiner’s case, it consists of water flowing through cracks and crevices in the shale bedrock deep beneath the surface.
You may wonder, what are these green splotches that brighten your otherwise drab winter day?
Driving the roads around Gardiner and New Paltz, you may have noticed a larger than usual number of dead or dying trees along the roadside.