Eli5: Detroit’s Central train station was recently restored by pumping out 3.5 million gallons of water out of the basement.

Question

Eli5: Were detroits rivers and lakes lower than they normally would be? Was there less rain because these gallons were missing from the atmosphere? Was there any affect at all in nature from these millions of gallons of water going missing?

“–3.5 million gallons (13.2 million liters) of water was pumped from the basement”

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-central-train-station-detroit-ford-mobility-49c55d18ee0b377fa54c70f389168639

In: Biology

Answer 1

A few million gallons is not that much on the scale you’re asking about. For instance, the Mississippi River discharges somewhere in the neighborhood of 4.5 million gallons of water every second.