Anyway, my point was that what you have is two GECs, and two connections to the water are a splice in what is supposed to be one conductor. (If you are inspecting to the NEC, not Soares...)
The code specifically permits the GEC to run from one electrode to another.
250.64 Grounding Electrode Conductor Installation.
Grounding electrode conductors shall be installed as specified in 250.64(A) through (F).
(F) To Electrode(s). A grounding electrode conductor shall be permitted to be run to any convenient grounding electrode available in the grounding electrode system or to one or more grounding electrode(s) individually. The grounding electrode conductor shall be sized for the largest grounding electrode conductor required among all the electrodes connected to it.
I cannot see how two GECs that are terminated on the same electrode would be a spliced GEC violation just because they both originated in the same vicinity. By that logic the separate service permitted for fire pumps could not be grounded to the electrodes that are used for the main service. In fact any failure to use the same electrodes for a separate service would be a violation of
250.58 Common Grounding Electrode.
Where an ac system is connected to a grounding electrode in or at a building as specified in 250.24 and 250.32, the same electrode shall be used to ground conductor enclosures and equipment in or on that building. Where separate services supply a building and are required to be connected to a grounding electrode, the same grounding electrode shall be used.
Two or more grounding electrodes that are effectively bonded together shall be considered as a single grounding electrode system in this sense.
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Tom Horne
"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous for general use." Thomas Alva Edison
