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A lot of groundwater in Michigan, but in that very place the groundwater meets surface, everywhere. It supplies vast areas of marshland and swamp and huge ecosy
by awful 9y ago
A lot of groundwater in Michigan, but in that very place the groundwater meets surface, everywhere. It supplies vast areas of marshland and swamp and huge ecosystem that surrounds it. If you reduce the pressure by pumping aquifer and groundwater (a lot of sand there), will it divert the groundwater from replenishing the surface, that is the wetlands, the rivers, and the lakes that all this wildlife depends? Measurement is needed, and undergoing as I understand. BTW, Mich is so varied because of its unique geological history; across the state underneath it is like very different places 10s to 1000s of feet below, from sand to granite to salt domes, many different types of technical soils(?) IIRC. PS No, there may be, but if there were reliable studies it would not be so controversial.
- tptacek 9y agoI understand the logic. I'm asking if you know of a source documenting that actually happening in Michigan. I know that high-volume pumping apparently disrupts the neighbors wells, but the same source I read that in said that it wasn't disrupting the ecosystem. Since none of us have done any actual work here, and all of us are capable of telling a good story, I'm really specifically interested in sources.