Sadly something very similar has occurred in Mahwah, NJ. A motor car company plant used to be there, it provided tons of jobs. Then they packed up for Detroit and left the waste dump to rot. According to them it was up to spec at the time, screw off. According the the people getting sick, and the children dying... who cares if it was, fix it, you got the bail out from us.
Naturally, the problem has already gone into the water table.
Sad but true.
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A lady I work with who is a groundwater specialist went over to the states recently for a conference. she told me that the US has no regulation of groundwater extraction at all, anywhere and they were quite surprised that we regulate.
It's only recently that regulators are getting a handle on the interconnectivity between ground and surface water. Information on the different types of aquifers and how they work is being done also. Unfortunately stuff is going on before all the research is done. So the effects of aquifer reinjection or what they are terming "virtual reinjection" (which is injecting wastewater into other aquifers not the one the water has been extracted from) is being investigated. There's just not enough that is known.
I am not sure, But it is one of the things which responsible for happening earthquakes. Why because, The volume displaced when millions of barrels of oil are produced, the land movement can actually cause a mini-seismic earthquake. Please produce some more attachments about the topic to view detail information.
Oil company takes partial responsibility for Earthquake
http://desmogblog.com/uk-fracking-co...ty-earthquakes
New USGS report Links Fracking & Earthquakes
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/...g-earthquakes/
Our analysis showed that shortly after hydraulic fracturing began small earthquakes started occurring, and more than 50 were identified, of which 43 were large enough to be located. Most of these earthquakes occurred within a 24 hour period after hydraulic fracturing operations had ceased. There have been previous cases where seismologists have suggested a link between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes, but data was limited, so drawing a definitive conclusion was not possible for these cases.
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