https://capecharleswave.com/2014/02/groundwater-use-could-go-to-1-million-gallons-per-day/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://capecharleswave.com/2014/02/groundwater-use-could-go-to-1-million-gallons-per-day/#comment-34163 Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:58:19 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=11752#comment-34163 The sign at the west end of Mason Avenue tells the story of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater. If you went out to the end of the Cape Charles fun pier and drilled down 1,000 meters (0.6 miles) it’s very possible you would hit a pocket of (salt) water that is 145 million years old. It’s possibly the oldest traceable water on the entire planet. This pocket has supposedly been trapped down there for 35 million years. My question is: I wonder what’s floating around in it? Maybe dinosaur eggs? According to studies, the impact from the meteor would have “broken our plumbing,” so to speak, destroying the existing arrangement of fresh water aquifers and rock layers that restrict the flow of groundwater. Lucky it left us with one little vein. We all need to do the right thing to take care of it. Google “Chesapeake bay impact crater”

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