re: Now Closed: I'll answer any question you have about ROCKS!

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How do the deep formations that deep commercial/industrial wastewater injection wells have room to accept the volumes of waste water that they do? Doesn't the pressure on those deeper formations crush them airtight? How is there empty space available?

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Well it could be a few things:

if you can dissolve the rock you pump into, that gives you space

if the rock is permeable, that gives you space

if the rock is fractured or you can fracture the rock, then the water can move along those openings



groundwater moves through rocks and water is pumped in sometimes to slow overpumping...that happens over relatively short time periods, so these layers are permeable.