https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/05/14/morgantown-utility-board-seeks-protections-from-drilling-to-safeguard-water/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/05/14/morgantown-utility-board-seeks-protections-from-drilling-to-safeguard-water/#comment-331 Monte McKenzie Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:16:51 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=1765#comment-331 With so little oversite of fracking available and so much at stake in rural WV where all our drinking water is produced from wells springs or streams of local development; it seams absurd to even consider the possible contamination by the fluids currently being used for fracking even if they can generally be contained and disposed of as the excess of that pumped underground ... the poisons left behind will eventually get into most of the wells and leak into streams through springs coming to the surface from aquifers deep underground With so little oversite of fracking available and so much at stake in rural WV where all our drinking water is produced from wells springs or streams of local development; it seams absurd to even consider the possible contamination by the fluids currently being used for fracking even if they can generally be contained and disposed of as the excess of that pumped underground … the poisons left behind will eventually get into most of the wells and leak into streams through springs coming to the surface from aquifers deep underground

]]> https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/05/14/morgantown-utility-board-seeks-protections-from-drilling-to-safeguard-water/#comment-276 John Barnes Sat, 14 May 2011 04:26:25 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=1765#comment-276 These fluids must be treated as hazardous waste and closely followed and documented from "cradle to grave". The idea that the Morgantown Industrial Zone is already heavily contaminated does not make it acceptable to foul it further. AMD streams that are returning to health are now being assaulted by overland flow of these toxic drilling wastewaters. Stream restoration progress going down the drain.... The worst thing is that we can never be sure when a well casing or a waste transmission pipe wil burst or leak. We all have seen old conventional wells rust away. The same is going to happen with these wells, and the kids will be left to deal with it. They'll be out there, plugging the wells, pumping gallons upon gallons of cement; drinking bottled water. These fluids must be treated as hazardous waste and closely followed and documented from “cradle to grave”. The idea that the Morgantown Industrial Zone is already heavily contaminated does not make it acceptable to foul it further. AMD streams that are returning to health are now being assaulted by overland flow of these toxic drilling wastewaters. Stream restoration progress going down the drain…. The worst thing is that we can never be sure when a well casing or a waste transmission pipe wil burst or leak. We all have seen old conventional wells rust away. The same is going to happen with these wells, and the kids will be left to deal with it. They’ll be out there, plugging the wells, pumping gallons upon gallons of cement; drinking bottled water.

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