In this week's Landmarks column: The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a project this month to get a better understanding of how surface water interacts with water in aquifers.
An apparatus used to scan subsurface geological features swings under a helicopter during takeoff Tuesday, Jan. 31 at Bult Field in Monee. The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting a project this month to get a better understanding of how surface water interacts with water in aquifers.
It’s hard to say what could have been for communities such as Lockport and Joliet, which turned their backs on riverfront areas, filling them with industry.Sewage treatment has been vastly improved in the 12 decades since, but even after processing, the waste discharge from a world class city likely continues to alter the chemistry of waterways between Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico.
As they figure out how to tackle the situation, the scientists enlisted a helicopter that took off from Bult Field on Tuesday in Monee, dragging underneath it a huge, somewhat trapezoidal framework adorned with certain devices. Minsley, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, stood before a crowd of about 30 people Tuesday at the little airport in Monee, detailing the. It involves a monthlong series of aerial sweeps by the helicopter and dangling equipment over the Illinois River basin. The project will transmit electromagnetic signals into the ground and collect the resulting data to create a rough map of underground features.
One of the elements making Illinois River compelling to the federal scientists is the problematic nutrients.
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