:DEP investigating frack fluid spill" [Williamport area]

"A natural gas company [XTO] contractor is cleaning sediment remaining from a frack water spill a state Department of Environmental Protection inspector found polluting a Penn Township waterway.

Daniel T. Spadoni, community relations coordinator for the DEP northcentral region office, said Monday the water tank discharge was discovered last week polluting a spring and a stream in the Muncy Creek watershed. ...

While inspecting the [unattended] well pad sometime last week, a DEP inspector reportedly discovered the bottom valve on a 21,000-gallon fracking fluid tank was open and discharging fluid off the well pad. ..."

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Wigglesworth on November 23, 2010 at 8:02am
I hope they come down hard on companies for stupid mistakes...
Permalink Reply by Robin Jackson on November 23, 2010 at 1:00pm
Me too but it won't make our water double that is for sure..We have what we have..There is a wonderful children's book out that explains water so simply. Something to the effect that the Good Lord gave us all we have..From the time it rains, falls from the sky, lands on the tree, is licked up by a lizard, the lizard crawls to the ground, he urinates, it soaks in the ground,comes out your spicket, goes to the creek that flows to the river that flows to the ocean..the process starts all over again. Water truely is recycled but we loose we loose it is never gained back. When will people understand that.
Permalink Reply by Robin Jackson on November 23, 2010 at 12:57pm
Darn shame..

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