As best I can tell, there are no pipelines that run through the aquifer where it is more than 50 feet saturated thickness. If my map skills are correct, the pipeline will be running through 600-800 feet of saturated thickness.
Feel free to run the pipeline through our state, but let’s bend it around our state and country’s crucial groundwater.
As best I can tell, there are no pipelines that run through the aquifer where it is more than 50 feet saturated thickness. I do not read the map the same way. Nearly all of the Nebraska section is more than 50 feet thick and has multiple liquid petroleum pipelines across it.
The existing pipelines cross through thicker section in Texas and Oklahoma as well.
In addition, can you tell me the concern of the aquifer going deeper while the oil is lighter than water and would float on the top?