Northeast Gardening: Facts and History of my State, please share yours., 1 by WaterCan2

WaterCan2 wrote:
Long Island, New York

1) Size: It's 118 miles long x (12 to 23) miles wide.*

2) Water: All of Long Island's water supply comes from underground water held in aquifers. Stacked one on top of the other like layers in
a cake. All Long Island aquifers receive their fresh water from precipitation which takes from 25 to 1,000 years to migrate through the layers to the aquifers, which hold roughly 70 trillion US gallons enough to flood the entire surface of Long Island with more than 300 feet of water.*

* From Wikipedia

enc. NASA Landsat image; public domain.