Crossword-Solution: SEEPAGES 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Not until a considerable sum had been spent in actual drilling operations, however, did those seepages diminish sufficiently to excite suspicion sufficiently, in fact, to induce the crew to pump the water well dry.

The subsequent development of small seepages through the concrete would seem to indicate that the repair work should have been carried on far enough in advance of the concreting to permit the detection of secondary leaks which might develop slowly.

With the advent of cold weather, damp spots appeared in numerous places on the concrete, and small seepages showed through quite regularly at the temperature cracks, in some cases developing sufficiently to be called leaks.

The tar springs, or "seepages," indicate to the oil prospector where deposits of oil may possibly be found.

Sometimes seepages of oil or showings of gas near the surface are sufficient basis for localizing the drill holes.[28] Commonly, however, it is necessary to find some structural feature in the nature of a dome or anticline which suggests proper trapping conditions for an oil pool.