has anyone identified if there may be an underground lake of some sort...it appears the water table is low anyway...but here is the question,,,what if there were an underground lake, farther below the base of the groundwater that would perhaps raise up with drilling to flood the area... if there is new bubbling 80 miles away...would drilling contaminate such an underground area of water...similar to the underground lake in our midwest states... there should be no reason why there cannot be an area with low groundwater levels, and then say a 1000 feet down another body of water perhaps that if, drilled into, would seemingly complicate matters in this Louisiana area?
also, can New Madrid movements or old craton boundary movements exacerbate the area's condition perhaps began with fracking or drilling?
just questions...if I did not use the proper vocabulary to ask, apologies all around.
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Susan, I don't know the details of the area of Bayou Corne, however, here's what I know about where I live, about 310 miles east-northeast of there.
We have well water. Our well is 260 feet deep, and the elevation at ground level where our well is located is 194 feet above sea level, making the source of our water 66 feet below sea level.
I know locally in this area that there are two known geologic aquifers, one at approximately 600 feet in depth, and another at around 1,000 feet in depth.
I also know that a "neighbor" who lives a little over 8/10ths of a mile north-northeast of me and property is about 80 feet lower than our's has a natural artesian well (doesn't need a pump) the water comes upto the surface under its own pressure through the well bore.
Third, our nearest neighbor 1/4 mile west of us, had/has a junk yard with old cars, trucks, buses, etc. Because of the junk yard and the potential leaching of potential toxics from the junk yard into the water table, we have had our well water tested at least once every two years, with zero toxins found in our water system.
Closer in, our own septic-system is located 201 feet from the well-bore, and there has been no leaching from the septic into our water system either.
So I guess what I'm trying to point out is that leaching doesn't necessarily result in contamination, though I would say it depends on the local area, and in what direction the underground streams might flow, as well as the depths of the aquifers. Further when drilling, like a well, as they drill deeper, they insert more casement pipe as they go down, so it's not just an open sided hole in the ground.
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