06-22-2016, 07:14 PM
Thank you dakine for the reality check Again, sometimes I feel like Dory.
What you wrote about gasses possibly leaching from cracks and fissures on this rift zone does make some sense to me. This "ROD" interestingly enough was noticed around or near several area steam vents before running down powerline roads, common vehicle roads, and highways. I took notes of this "ROD" the first couple of years, because I was convinced it was different than the past Ohia die-offs most would refer too. Although i did notice it around lavatree-geothermal area first, I also saw an early cluster of ROD between the Opihikao steam vents and Sanford's hillside cinder or aggregate material pits.
Before the hurricane the morning steam or gasses in this area was much worse than it is today. I say that because our yard here in leilani literally use to be in a steam or gas cloud (at least 50-100 mornings) before that storm and geothermal blowout. It would be so bad At times we wouldn't be able to see the many trees in the back yard or have our boys run in the mornings. Folks like Obie here on the PW would write in to us that we were seeing or experiencing a natural volcanic phenomena. The build up around 2-6 a.m a few mornings around here acted like an inversion layer that would reach out as far as the acres or even keaau at times. Not anymore though, like some miracle it has all just dried up and went away after that incredible storm.
Really I am not sure how much water the geothermal power plant needs or uses a day anymore, it may be in the millions of gallons due to the recent production increases. If the geothermal power plant is reinjecting this amount of daily water usage and waste back into the ground below us or just over the magma chamber would this evaporate, stay put, or possibly make a return trip back up to the surface as what? Could it change aquifer or soil temp?
Would leaked steam, gasses, or excess or even lost geothermal production be able to make its way to the surface through these mentioned steamvents in the area?
Anyway my parents decided to raise me on this volcano rift zone before geothermal moved into our backyard, I didn't have much say back then. I can still remember the days prior to geothermal here in puna, although not as vividly as the day the 1 in a thousand geothermal accident happened. That geothermal blowout in june of 1991 should have been filmed like the kapoho eruption was filmed decades earlier.
I believe most of the entire east rift zone is now contaminated, both the water and soil. I also believe engineers and others brought geothermal operation concerns like this up just after that 1991 geothermal blowout. Pretty sure The DLNR and state ignored or dismissed these concerns. Of course these are only my opinions.
What you wrote about gasses possibly leaching from cracks and fissures on this rift zone does make some sense to me. This "ROD" interestingly enough was noticed around or near several area steam vents before running down powerline roads, common vehicle roads, and highways. I took notes of this "ROD" the first couple of years, because I was convinced it was different than the past Ohia die-offs most would refer too. Although i did notice it around lavatree-geothermal area first, I also saw an early cluster of ROD between the Opihikao steam vents and Sanford's hillside cinder or aggregate material pits.
Before the hurricane the morning steam or gasses in this area was much worse than it is today. I say that because our yard here in leilani literally use to be in a steam or gas cloud (at least 50-100 mornings) before that storm and geothermal blowout. It would be so bad At times we wouldn't be able to see the many trees in the back yard or have our boys run in the mornings. Folks like Obie here on the PW would write in to us that we were seeing or experiencing a natural volcanic phenomena. The build up around 2-6 a.m a few mornings around here acted like an inversion layer that would reach out as far as the acres or even keaau at times. Not anymore though, like some miracle it has all just dried up and went away after that incredible storm.
Really I am not sure how much water the geothermal power plant needs or uses a day anymore, it may be in the millions of gallons due to the recent production increases. If the geothermal power plant is reinjecting this amount of daily water usage and waste back into the ground below us or just over the magma chamber would this evaporate, stay put, or possibly make a return trip back up to the surface as what? Could it change aquifer or soil temp?
Would leaked steam, gasses, or excess or even lost geothermal production be able to make its way to the surface through these mentioned steamvents in the area?
Anyway my parents decided to raise me on this volcano rift zone before geothermal moved into our backyard, I didn't have much say back then. I can still remember the days prior to geothermal here in puna, although not as vividly as the day the 1 in a thousand geothermal accident happened. That geothermal blowout in june of 1991 should have been filmed like the kapoho eruption was filmed decades earlier.
I believe most of the entire east rift zone is now contaminated, both the water and soil. I also believe engineers and others brought geothermal operation concerns like this up just after that 1991 geothermal blowout. Pretty sure The DLNR and state ignored or dismissed these concerns. Of course these are only my opinions.