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A rabbit hole about Lake Peigneur and it's change.
🕑 Added 2019-08-23 12:59:59 +0000 UTCIt started as a 6' deep large lake that was freshwater, and it ended up making a 1300 foot deep lake that is salt water now.
It generated 400' geysers, from the air from the salt mine they hit while doing a test drill for oil.
"The resultant whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, a tugboat, many trees, and 65 acres (26 ha) of the surrounding terrain. So much water drained into those caverns that the flow of the Delcambre Canal that usually empties the lake into Vermilion Bay was reversed, making the canal a temporary inlet. This backflow created for a few days the tallest waterfall ever in the state of Louisiana, at 164 feet (50 m), as the lake refilled with salty water from the Delcambre Canal and Vermilion Bay. Air displaced by the water flowing into the mine caverns erupted through the mineshafts as compressed air and then later as 400-foot (120 m) geysers."
"Water is something you should never see in a salt mine" A salt miner under Lake Peigneur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
Comments
Marc Pengryffyn
That nobody was killed is astonishing.
Cathy W.
Wow! It's hard for me to even comprehend the scale of all that. Scary!
