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Document ID: EPA-HQ-OW-2008-0390-102

Last Name: 

First Name: Rebecca

Title: 

Organization: Mendocino County Water Agency, State of California

City: 

State: CA

Zip Code: 

Phone Number: 

Fax Number: 

Country Code: 

Email Address: mcwa@co.mendocino.ca.us

Current Category Code: 254

Comment: Hi, MaryRose. My name is Rebecca, and I teach school for the Mendocino

County Water Agency. I'm pretty confused about carbon sequestration, and

wondered if you could enlighten me. I have a difficult time picturing carbon,

and wonder how it is sequestered. Is it in a gas or liquid form? If it's a gas

and injected into the ground, wouldn't it be able to seep between rocks and get

into our water supply? Is it stored in tanks? Someone told me it's injected into

coal, then buried? Could we inject it into old coal mines and seal it up? Even

our most knowledgeable around here are stumped on this one. Thank you.

mcwa@co.mendocino.ca.us
Letter ID: 0102 

 Organization: Mendocino County Water Agency, State of California 

Letter ID: 0102 Comment ID: 21938 Letter Lines: 15 to 22 

Comment Code: 1320 1.1.3 General comments about GS 

Comment: Hi, MaryRose. My name is Rebecca, and I teach school for the Mendocino 

County Water Agency. I'm pretty confused about carbon sequestration, and 

wondered if you could enlighten me. I have a difficult time picturing carbon, 

and wonder how it is sequestered. Is it in a gas or liquid form? If it's a gas 

and injected into the ground, wouldn't it be able to seep between rocks and get 

into our water supply? Is it stored in tanks? Someone told me it's injected into 

coal, then buried? Could we inject it into old coal mines and seal it up? Even 

our most knowledgeable around here are stumped on this one. Thank you. 

Individual Response: GS is the process of injecting CO2 captured from an emission source 

(e.g., a power plant or industrial facility) into deep subsurface rock formations for long-term 

storage. It is part of a process known as “carbon capture and storage” (CCS). When injected into 

an appropriate receiving formation, CO2 is sequestered by a combination of trapping 

mechanisms, including physical and geochemical processes. Please see the preamble and 

materials in the docket for additional information. 

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