Sean describes the right way to do it, particularly in unstable soil such as sand. But in Texas white rock, the metal ring was not used....probably should have been for safety, and no bricks were needed. My father dug a big cistern in 1955...I was 7 yrs old but remember it well because he used lots of dynamite. At about 6-8 ft down the rock turned to a blue solid, full of fossils and thin 1" layers of a soft clay. Dad used this clay to plug water holes from shallow water we hit. He went 30 ft deep, belled out to 15 ft wide at the bottom, all solid blue rock. He would drill 1.5" holes in the rock with a big electric drill motor, then stuff a half stick of dynamite in the hole with a blast cap and fuse, pack the hole full of mud clay, and light it. Not a single rock would exit the top since the dynamite blew down, fragmenting the rock which was then taken out via a cable and bucket system Dad built. It took over a year to finish. He ran all the gutters from our house into it and it stayed full up to 6 ft from the top almost year round. We watered our hogs and cattle from it for years but did not use for our domestic human use, and it still holds water.
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