{"id":229513,"date":"2026-01-21T17:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/enormous-freshwater-reservoir-discovered-off-the-east-coast-may-be-20000-years-old-and-big-enough-to-supply-nyc-for-800-years"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:03:33","slug":"enormous-freshwater-reservoir-discovered-off-the-east-coast-may-be-20000-years-old-and-big-enough-to-supply-nyc-for-800-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/enormous-freshwater-reservoir-discovered-off-the-east-coast-may-be-20000-years-old-and-big-enough-to-supply-nyc-for-800-years","title":{"rendered":"Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enormous-freshwater-reservoir-discovered-off-the-east-coast-may-be-20000-years-old-and-big-enough-to-supply-nyc-for-800-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe important part was we collected all the samples we need to address our primary questions,\u201d Dugan said. \u201cWhen we\u2019re done drilling and we pull our equipment out, the holes collapse back in and seal themselves up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists are studying the reservoir in finer detail, including any microbes, rare earth elements, pore space \u2014 which can help researchers better estimate the reservoir\u2019s size \u2014 and the age of the sediments, which will help narrow down when it formed. More definitive results about how and when the reservoir formed are expected in about one month\u2019s time, Dugan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to provide an understanding of the system so if and when somebody needs to use it, they have information to start from, rather than recreating information or making an ill-informed choice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe important part was we collected all the samples we need to address our primary questions,\u201d Dugan said. \u201cWhen we\u2019re done drilling and we pull our equipment out, the holes collapse back in and seal themselves up.\u201d Now, scientists are studying the reservoir in finer detail, including any microbes, rare earth elements, pore space \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}