Drinking Water Quality Isn't A Hydraulic Fracturing Issue

Sue Mickley says she gets annoyed when people say they don’t want their drinking water ruined by natural gas development even though there has never been a documented case of drinking water contamination due to hydraulic fracturing. Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator, in fact has said “In no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter groundwater.”

They also don’t seem to understand the aquifer is not one body of water underground, but thousands of independent aquifers in Northeast Pennsylvania. Any development, even drilling a drinking water well for a new home, can cause methane migration in Pennsylvania because of our geology (the problem experienced in Dimock) but that has nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing and deep natural gas.

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Comment by Brian Oram, PG on July 5, 2012 at 9:49pm

That being said -we still need to compile all the baseline data and get in a format that could benefit the citizens and private well owners of Pennsylvania. - So please send you baseline testing data to the Citizens Groundwater and Surfacewater Database - the program is free.

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http://www.water-research.net/privatewellPA.htm

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