Sentences with phrase «into deep aquifer»

Hydrologists concerned with sustainable groundwater supplies and drinking water contamination, have been in the forefront of analyzing the volume and ages of the world's groundwater, providing greater insight into deep aquifer effects.

They assume that annually 5 ± 0.5 % of the water impounded seeps into deep aquifers, giving a 1990 rate of seepage of 0.61 to 0.75 mm / yr, and a total volume of 15 mm sea level equivalent.

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A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer - causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sequestration, as envisioned in the report, involves capturing the CO2 from coal - fired power plants, compressing it into a liquid and injecting it deep beneath the earth into old oil fields or saline aquifers.

That means the contaminants found in Pavillion would have had to work their way from a sink not only into the well but deep into the aquifer at significant concentrations in order to be detected.

This project will inject up to 300,000 tonnes of gas per year, depending on Cenovus's operations, into a 3.5 - kilometer - deep saline aquifer (a thin layer of brine - soaked porous rock) for storage.

This is the horror scenario for developers of carbon capture and sequestration, or CCS, which envisions grabbing carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and pumping the gas into saline aquifers and other deep geologic formations for permanent storage.

Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation's drinking water.

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

Ingredients 75 % Pyrophyllite Clay, 25 % Activated Charcoal Pyrophyllite is formed entirely differently from the other clays, in that it began as an underground boiling lava soup that decomposed into a clay through interaction with deep underground aquifer water, steam and pressure.

That's because China has been tapping into its aquifers, underwater reservoirs deep underground, to irrigate its farm land.

In contrast to La Nina induced shallow - aquifer effects, deep aquifers have been filled with meltwater from the last Ice Age, and that water is slowly and steadily seeping back into the oceans today.

Pumping sea water into a 700 - metre - deep aquifer below the lagoon could buoy the city by as much as 30 cm over a decade, for example.

In these new plants, the CO2 can be removed, compressed into an oil - like fluid, then injected underground in abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquifers.