Disturbing Implications of Land Rising into the Sky

[Acyl]

There's a couple more implications about boosting land, I guess. From my own story notes, but there's no harm sharing it...I might not be able to work all of this into the actual fiction, anyway.
One of the things the Island crew did, in preparing to make the place spaceworthy...
They got some people in to take soil samples. Then did a bunch of rough back-of-the-envelope calculations.
Then took the 'wavium they'd been brewing up for the purpose, and diluted it with a lot of water. So they ended up with a rather large amount of extremely runny 'wavium derivative. And pretty much let it saturate the ground. They repeated this over a long period, in stages.
Yeah, some pumping and tunnels involved. End result, they were hoping by saturating the soil with 'wavium, it'd hold together when the Island lifted. It worked alright in tests...
Anyway. Implications.
One, it didn't go that smoothly - the Island lost some mass from the underside when it lifted - we're talking raining chunks of earth from the bottom during the ascent.
Mind, after all the excess not-quite-sticky debris fell away, the final shape of the Floating Island's underside was...pretty much an inverted mountain shape. IE, almost exactly as they'd envisioned it. 'wavium at work...but the falling debris was a minor issue.
Two, the infamous Hole...the crater left behind by the Island... is heavily contaminated with 'wavium. Nobody's quite sure about the extent of the spread, though, or whether the 'wavium's done anything to, say, surrounding vegetation. I figure 'dane scientists would be looking at that grass very carefully now...
So that's another reason why 'dane governments might be pissed. It's not just that the Island crew made off with a chunk of land, they left a pretty big 'wavium mess behind, sunk into the earth itself, and nobody's quite sure about the environmental implications of that. Handwavium pollution, as it were.
-- Acyl