An Underground Lake as Large as Garda: Discovered Almost 30 Thousand Hectares of Fresh Water

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Venice – A vast subterranean freshwater body has been discovered in the province of Venice. Between Buoro near Cavarzere and Punta Gorzone near Chioggia, the water reserve extends over nearly 30,000 hectares – an area roughly equivalent to that of Lake Garda. It is a deep-lying groundwater body protected by powerful clay layers, [...]

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Of these times, a deep aquifer is enough to invent an underground lake and fill the homepages. In the last days several newspapers and portals have roboatingly titled the discovery of a huge underground lake in northern Italy, almost as big as Garda. The hydrogeological reality, however, is quite different: there is no flooded cavity, [...] The article "Underground lake as the Garda"? No, it is a layer. And the headlines of the newspapers are fu…

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Lorenzo Frison, engineer of the Consorzio di reclamation Adige Euganeo and head of the Swamrisk project for the Consortium: "The reliefs in Veneto confirm that this gigantic deep deposit, protected by thick clay layers, is not subject to the intrusion of salt water"