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This article states that wastewater from the center contains nitrates at 56 ppm, but the local wells are testing above 70 ppm. It also targets the vector of con
by palindome 10mo ago
This article states that wastewater from the center contains nitrates at 56 ppm, but the local wells are testing above 70 ppm. It also targets the vector of contamination as being from percolation to groundwater from water treatment plants, which I'm guessing only a fraction of wastewater has the ability to leak through.
This feels incredibly disingenuous, or at the least, incredibly poor journalism.
- u12 10mo agoThe original piece by rolling stone describes Amazon's role: - Experts say Amazon’s arrival supercharged this process. The data centers suck up tens of millions of gallons of water from the aquifer each year to cool their computer equipment, which then gets funneled to the Port’s wastewater system. All of the data center water gets mixed into the dirty lagoon wastewater, which only increases how much water the Port must then discard over the fields. As Greg Pettit, who served at the DEQ for 38 years and led the development of Oregon’s Groundwater Quality, explains, “the more water you put on, the faster you’re going to drive the nitrogen through the soil and down into the aquifer.” -
- altairprime 10mo agohttps://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-center-water-pollution-amazon-oregon-1235466613/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-c...
- yread 10mo agoSo even if the datacenter expelled pure H2O it would still be a problem by increasing the hydraulic head and speeding up the spread of the agricultural runoff polluted water that already was in groundwater?
- samwolff 10mo ago[dead]