Salt Dome Filling With Water?

[RobertEarl]

Down south near the mouth of the Mississippi River, are underground salt domes formed naturally over millions of years.

Man went in and dug the salt out leaving huge dry caverns which they then proceeded to fill with all kinds of stuff: oil, gas, even radiation waste.

AFAICT, about 2 years ago, some underground work in one of these caverns caused a situation that made the workers clear out and sealing the cavern behind them. Well.... it looks like that cavern has now filled up with water.

The top of the dome has collapsed and now there is a 'lake' at ground level, and they are calling this lake a sinkhole.


Two workers rescued from Louisiana sinkhole
By Joe Sutton, CNN
updated 9:04 AM EDT, Fri August 17, 2012
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/louisiana-sinkhole-rescue/index.html?hpt=us_c2

[Mojorabbit]

1. Kick nt

[RobertEarl]

2. Nearby caverns....

....there are quite a few of these salt domes in the area of southern Louisiana. Many of these hold oil, natural gas, and LP gas.

One such cavern is located in close proximity to the one filling with water. It holds an estimated one million barrels of butane.

If that cavern fills with water, too, where will the gas go? Probably into the atmosphere. Could it ignite?

[RobertEarl]

3. Another report from La.

http://www.wwltv.com/home/questionsfloatedaroundswampsinkhole-166190026.html

More than 300 people in Assumption Parish are under a mandatory evacuation order as scientists try to figure out what caused a massive sinkhole in the swamp. The company that once had a salt mine near the site is about to start drilling a relief well to ease pressure underground.

Residents nearby were placed under a mandatory evacuation order, including Landry, not just because of the potential for additional collapse, but because of the more than fifty caverns underground.

One near the sinkhole site is being used as a butane storage cavern, a flammable, potentially explosive gas.