Potential effects of deep-well waste disposal in western New York

Waller, Roger M.; Turk, John T.; Dingman, Robert James

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“…In the absence of internal stresses (e.g., pumping), these boundary conditions induce one‐dimensional flow in the upward direction under ambient conditions. To support the assignment of hydraulic heads at the top and bottom boundaries, Myers references a published study that, in turn, reports a single hydraulic‐head measurement recorded along the shore of Lake Erie in Cambrian‐age bedrock (Waller et al 1978; TAL 1981). Because this measurement was made outside the prospective gas‐producing region of the Marcellus and within bedrock far beneath the Devonian‐age Marcellus Shale, its application by Myers is inappropriate.…”

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Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale Aquifers

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2012

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Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale Aquifers

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“…Available data suggest that the porewater throughout the column of sedimentary rocks possesses a summed Na and Cl concentration between 200 000 and 300 000 mg L −1 (Waller et al, 1978;Lynch and Castor, 1983;Blondes et al, 2017). Although very saline, the brine composition is within the range of basinal brines known globally (Houston et al, 2011).…”

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Borehole research in New York State can advance utilization of low-enthalpy geothermal energy, management of potential risks, and understanding of deep sedimentary and crystalline geologic systems

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Abstract. In January 2020, a scientific borehole planning workshop sponsored by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program was convened at Cornell University in the northeastern United States. Cornell is planning to drill test wells to evaluate the potential to use geothermal heat from depths in the range of 2700–4500 m and rock temperatures of about 60 to 120 ∘C to heat its campus buildings. Cornell encourages the Earth sciences community to envision how these boreholes can also be used to advance high-priority subsurface research questions. Because nearly all scientific boreholes on the continents are targeted to examine iconic situations, there are large gaps in understanding of the “average” intraplate continental crust. Hence, there is uncommon and widely applicable value to boring and investigating a “boring” location. The workshop focused on designing projects to investigate the coupled thermal–chemical–hydrological–mechanical workings of continental crust. Connecting the practical and scientific goals of the boreholes are a set of currently unanswered questions that have a common root: the complex relationships among pore pressure, stress, and strain in a heterogeneous and discontinuous rock mass across conditions spanning from natural to human perturbations and short to long timescales. The need for data and subsurface characterization vital for decision-making around the prospective Cornell geothermal system provides opportunities for experimentation, measurement, and sampling that might lead to major advances in the understanding of hydrogeology, intraplate seismicity, and fluid/chemical cycling. Subsurface samples could also enable regional geological studies and geobiology research. Following the workshop, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded funds for a first exploratory borehole, whose proposed design and research plan rely extensively on the ICDP workshop recommendations.

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“…Note depth scale, thicker Cambrian section near eastern Lake Erie, and variation in possible Precambrian clastic material. Sources: well completion reports, Petroleum Resources Laboratory, Ministry of Natural Resources, London, Ontario; Kreidler 1963;Kreidler et al 1972;Waller et al 1978;Van Tyne 1975;American Industrial Disposal Systems 1968a, 19686.…”

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Seismic images of a tectonic subdivision of the Grenville Orogen beneath lakes Ontario and Erie

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New seismic data from marine air-gun and Vibroseis profiles in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie provide images of subhorizontal Phanerozoic sediments underlain by a remarkable series of easterly dipping reflections that extends from the crystalline basement to the lower crust. These reflections are interpreted as structural features of crustal-scale subdivisions within the Grenville Orogen. Broadly deformed, imbricated, and overlapping thrust sheets within the western Central Metasedimentary Belt are succeeded to the west by a complex zone of easterly dipping, apparent thrust faults that are interpreted as a southwest subsurface extension of the boundary zone between the Central Metasedimentary Belt and the Central Gneiss Belt. The interpreted Central Metasedimentary Belt boundary zone has a characteristic magnetic anomaly that provides a link from the adjacent ends of lakes Ontario and Erie to structures exposed 150 km to the north. Less reflective, west-dipping events are interpreted as structures within the eastern Central Gneiss Belt. The seismic interpretation augments current tectonic models that suggest the exposed ductile structures formed at depth as a result of crustal shortening along northwest-verging thrust faults. Relatively shallow reflections across the boundary region suggest local, Late Proterozoic extensional troughs containing post-Grenville sediments, preserved possibly as a result of pre-Paleozoic reactivation of basement structures.

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Potential effects of deep-well waste disposal in western New York

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale Aquifers

Potential Contaminant Pathways from Hydraulically Fractured Shale Aquifers

Borehole research in New York State can advance utilization of low-enthalpy geothermal energy, management of potential risks, and understanding of deep sedimentary and crystalline geologic systems

Seismic images of a tectonic subdivision of the Grenville Orogen beneath lakes Ontario and Erie

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