… How many times have we heard that “All life as we know it depends on water.” … Oh, now I get it.
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Good choice, there’s a little over 11,000 people in the whole county and about 650 people in that town. Shouldn’t cost too much to buy everyone out.
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… that does appear to be the strategy now doesn’t it?
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Location, location, location…
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… I would like to suggest that a study be done comparing the energy and water usage of 20 million criminal illegals to the usage of Data Centers. Maybe an argument could be made that deporting 20 million criminal illegals would make energy and water available for Data Centers. Deport for Data Centers!, Deport so DCs can live!, CI Death for DC Life!, Give me CI Death or Give me DC Life! Data Center Lives Matter! (© by ScarMoCo)
Gosh, what’s the problem here?
From the article:
“The Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer is extensive. The formation beneath the region holds more than 23 trillion gallons of groundwater, and about 8% of it is currently being used.
Project Green would add roughly 0.03% to that usage.”
I found this 2021 research article MOST informative regarding water level decline, municipal usage, cross contamination between isolated zones, well casings, oxygen entry, and more. It mentions specific cities that switched sources from the aquifer to Lake Michigan due to low levels years ago.
Abstract:
“As shallow aquifers become depleted or contaminated worldwide, use of deep aquifers will likely increase to meet growing water demands despite expensive drilling costs and well maintenance, and limited recharge to many of these deep systems. We discuss depletion of the Cambrian-Ordovician sandstone aquifer, a deep bedrock aquifer that has been a major source of water in the Midwestern US for over 150 years. Using a participatory groundwater modeling approach with active stakeholder engagement, we developed a conceptual framework to assess risk to different sandstone units of the aquifer based on simulated heads and production well behavior (pumping levels and specific capacities). Over 320 m of static head decline has occurred since predevelopment in the deepest sandstone unit. Shallower units are actively being dewatered. Drawdown and head separation between sandstone units is even greater under pumping conditions and is most acute near a regional fault zone. Current depletion is prompting massive infrastructure changes to mitigate anticipated water supply shortages. Our results show that even with a substantial reduction in water use by 35% in 2030, many areas of the aquifer remain at High or Severe risk out to 2070. Head decline, as opposed to storage loss, is a critical metric for understanding depletion of deep bedrock aquifers. The participatory modeling process made clear that pumping levels at production wells should not be ignored in evaluations of aquifer sustainability and risk. Our conceptual risk framework could be applied to other deep bedrock aquifers undergoing depletion.“
The report predates data center (ab)users and brings to light existing problems and predictions for more.
Yah, New Florence seems a nice little area to drop a well or two.
Maybe Nestle can guide Amazon on how to lay low and “Gitter Done.”