The downhole pressure problems have persisted. Although I'm looking forward to the opportunity to study these aquifers and their completely uncharted behavior - for the moment we've decided to take the kid gloves off and go after them to shut them down. After a good deal of discussion, it looks like the most effective way to combat the pressure is to cement back the hole that we've opened - and do our best to push cement back into the formations producing the water flow - and then re-drill. There may be more frustrating exercises than drilling a hole and filling it up again so we can re-drill the same hole - but I can't think of what they might be at the moment... More seriously, we've tried "treading water" with control of formation pressure with mud weight, but we are in danger of drowning if we can't get a handle on it. Although I didn't see the flow the other night, from it's description by Bruce and the crew, we could have had 4000 - 5000 gpm coming out of the hole - but, of course, no one was standing around with a bucket trying to measure it. As of right now, we've cemented back to near the bottom of the casing and will probably do one more cement placement before we are ready to begin the drill out process. Stay tuned