Q&A
Need for studies and potential solutions
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3 min
Council Member Gennaro, drawing on his background in geology, discusses the need for studies to determine optimal pumping rates and potential solutions for groundwater issues. The conversation extends to water problems in Nassau County and possible interconnections.
- A study is needed to determine how much pumping is required to regulate the water table effectively
- The discussion touches on different aquifer systems and their potential uses
- Potential solutions include using excess water from Queens to address Nassau County's water supply issues
James F. Gennaro
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Right.
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And okay.
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So Yeah.
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So I guess so the question is Yeah.
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And this is like a USGS question, which is how much would you have to pump of the wells in it to regulate the water table so that people could live with it.
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And that amount of water, they'd have to pump it, which costs money, they'd have to send it to a sewage treatment plant.
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Could the sewage treatment plant handle it, So we didn't even have all the parameters on that.
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So we need a study as to what which presumably the bill calls for.
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Right?
William Scarborough
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Yes.
James F. Gennaro
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Okay.
William Scarborough
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One of the thoughts Yeah.
James F. Gennaro
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Go go ahead.
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Go ahead, Bill.
William Scarborough
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Yeah.
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One of the the thoughts that had been put forward in one of the studies that was done, I believe, was Malcolm Pardy.
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I'm not sure.
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But they indicated that the water that was being pumped by Jamaican water supply was at a different aquifer than NASA.
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So the argument that pumping water from Jamaica from Queens would hurt NASA was not accurate.
James F. Gennaro
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And No.
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That's bogus.
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Like, you're talking to a geologist here.
William Scarborough
2:55:29
Right.
James F. Gennaro
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So yeah.
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That's And
William Scarborough
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there is a thought that that water could since NASA does have an issue with their water supply.
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That They mean there are all
James F. Gennaro
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the issues with their water supply.
William Scarborough
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Given to NASA or, you know, some sort of arrangement to sell it, whereby they could reduce the water level in queens and provide a resource to NASA County.
James F. Gennaro
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Yeah.
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Now we're getting really complicated, but certainly NASA has, you know, a lot of I mean so wore this I mean, not I mean, I used to do water stuff up at, you know, DEC.
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Nassau has a lot of has big salt wedge coming in.
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They're, you know, like, a lot of intrusion.
William Scarborough
2:56:20
Right.
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So it works.
James F. Gennaro
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Because because the Magatha aquifer I worked on a project where they did, like, a reclamation recharge thing.
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They tried to get that going because they're they're they're taking, you know, like, whatever NASA uses.
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I don't know how many MGD they use, but the the the the the the the Magatha aquifer in in in Nassau.
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You you you getting drawdown from, like, the upper glacial aquifer at the South Shore and then, you know, north shore, you know, you're getting salt wedges in.
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You know, I would take that Jamaican water if I were them and just pump it into the ground to maintain the hydraulic stability to to kinda push against the salt wedge that's trying to come in.
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Mhmm.
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Mhmm.
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I'm not an engineer, but, you know, I know a little about hydrogeology.
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I don't know what's in the water.
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Yeah.
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That's that's like that's like another issue.
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But, yeah, I I I I certainly support all the, you know, all the brain waves that would need to you know, because this this is kinda everybody because everybody's gonna be, you know, because, you know, d b is gonna point to someone else,
William Scarborough
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and someone's
James F. Gennaro
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gonna point to the state.
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And so it just got you know, it's just getting a lot of finger pointing here.
William Scarborough
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The beauty of this is that it takes steps this legislation takes steps to help the homeowner who is suffering.
