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State Sen. Paul Faraci, D-Champaign, said while federal protections exist for groundwater, concerns remain about the long-term safety of underground storage near the Mahomet Aquifer.
“You need to absolutely ban the sequestration and storage of carbon on the Mahomet Aquifer.” It’s a sole source aquifer providing drinking water to nearly one million people in Central Illinois.
Most of the sand and gravel of the Mahomet Aquifer is from the lower half of the Banner Formation and belongs to the Mahomet Sand Member which is buried 100 to 200 feet (30 to 61 m) below the ground surface. The aquifer underlies 1,260,000 acres (510,000 hectares) of land in east-central Illinois and spans 15 counties (Panno and Korab, 2000).
Kirkwood–Cohansey Aquifer, is located under the Pine Barrens (New Jersey) of southern New Jersey, contains 17 trillion US gallons (64 km 3) of some of the purest water in the United States. Mahomet Aquifer supplies water to some 800,000 people in central Illinois and contains approximately four trillion US gallons (15 km 3) of water.
The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]
All drinking water comes from similar sources, such as rivers and lakes or underground aquifers. The taste and quality of both bottled water and tap water depend on the source and quality of the ...
The Sankoty aquifer is an aquifer in the U.S. state of Illinois that provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois. It is an unconsolidated deposit lying in a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River .
Land subsidence outside of Ruler Foods in Belleville, Ill., where an old mine below the store caused the land surrounding the building to sink into the ground on Sept. 26, 2023.