Reply #3: On 9-3-2010 WNEP reported gas bubbles in the Susquehanna.

[Lugnut]

I worry about the eventual ramifications of fracking on my own well even though there is no Marcellus shale in my end of Luzerne County.

http://www.wnep.com/news/countybycounty/wnep-brad-susquehanna-river-gas-bubbles,0,2590877.story

Well water problems have become a sticking point for those who argue over the safety of natural gas drilling. But Friday we talked to people in Bradford County who say they've never seen anything like this.

Investigators from the Department of Environmental Protection were in Bradford County, trying to find answers to the bubbles rising out of the ground along the banks of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River near Wyalusing. Neighbors are concerned it may be caused by methane gas coming from nearby natural gas drilling.

"We don't know the ramifications of this. All we know is that gas coming out of the river is explosive," said Don Palmer, who lives along the river in Sugar Run.

D.E.P. would only say that gas samples were being taken from both the river as well as nearby gas drilling sites to try and see if the samples match up. A man who described himself to Newswatch 16 as an initial responder from Chesapeake Energy was also there alongside the D.E.P.