Salt Mine Liability?

[Gannon]

Some Facebook share mentioned the extensive salt mines under Detroit, and I had a weird flash.

What would happen if a much higher than average water level in the Great Lakes flooded them?

Would the salt dissolve into solution with the water...and then become a great liability to the city?!

There was a report recently about fracking lubricating the ground enough to perhaps cause subterranean movement. The issues were the perforating of the ground with the pressurized wells, and injecting salty water into the shale layers.

Would a liquified salt shelf, well-perforated with many mineshafts, undermine the city? I mean, we're 600 feet above sea level here. Could an analogous disaster happen with this?!

A shaft over a thousand feet into the ground has a higher potential than the relatively shorter drop of Niagara Falls, the famous and very unique equalizer of water levels from the equally famous and very unique collection of fresh water which surround our fair state.

This greater potential may have the effect of pressurizing the fresh water above it...by creating a negative potential UNDER the normal sea level. Nature abhors a vacuum, right?! Will do whatever it takes to return to equilibrium...kinda karmic, actually.

Is salt-water a more stable form of solution than either ingredient independent of each other? One would imagine so, as most of the Earth's water is the solution...although the normal evaporation function of Mother Nature's perpetual distillery churns up the mix constantly.

Always have to wonder why sea water and our blood are so similar...in pH, at least...and reportedly in other ways, too. I'll have to search out that article...someone had listed some very curious similarities. In addition to the rough ratio of solid/liquid of the Earth being similar to the human body. That one freaked me out when I heard it, but I never confirmed anything. Not yet, at least. Somehow I feel I'll be learning something through this exercise.


This has me a bit disturbed. Sorry to share, but my head might explode if I kept this stuff in.


No cheers on this one,
John