Penn State Extension responds to New York Times Articles

Article from Penn State in relation to the New York Times articles.

Subject: Insights to Pennsylvania Marcellus Wastewater Treatment — Natural Gas — Penn State Cooperative Extension

http://extension.psu.edu/naturalgas/news/2011/03/insights-to-pennsy...

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Tags: Marcellus, New, Times, Wastewater, York, gas, natural, radiation, shale, treatment

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Comment by Brian Oram, PG on March 12, 2011 at 5:32pm

They forgot to mention the following:

a. Dilution is not the only form of treatment in the wastewater treatment plant- it is likely that the metals and radiologicals will precipitate out in the sludge.

b. The treatment plants that I visited that are doing this may not have effluent limits for barium, radium, etc, but the PADEP is requiring monitoring of these levels.

 

Just my thoughts

 

Brian Oram, PG

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