DEP Cites 243 Cases Of Well Water Contaminated By Drilling Wastewater (PA)
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DEP Cites 243 Cases Of Well Water Contaminated By Drilling Wastewater
August 29, 2014
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The state is out with new information about how many private drinking water wells have been contaminated due to drilling activities...
...The state Department of Environmental Protection says that Geary’s is one of three wells contaminated from a wastewater impoundment on a nearby well pad drilled by WPX Appalachia.
The wells are among some 243 cases cited by DEP since the drilling boom began six years ago. They involve both conventional natural gas wells and unconventional shale gas wells, and environmentalists say the number is disturbing.
“What I think it says, first of all, is that natural gas operations, regardless of whether it’s shale gas or shallow conventional drilling, are impacting drinking water here in Pennsylvania contrary what the industry has been telling us the entire time,” said Steve Hvozdovich, of Clean Water Action....
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