Comments on: Water Testing Can Protect Gas Companies and/or Residents or Landowners https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/10/11/water-testing-can-protect-gas-companies-andor-residents-or-landowners/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: RD Blakeslee https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2011/10/11/water-testing-can-protect-gas-companies-andor-residents-or-landowners/#comment-1392 RD Blakeslee Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:43:32 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=3271#comment-1392 When our family moved to West Virginia 34 years ago, we attempted to use an existing water well for household water, but found it to be contaminated. It tasted bad and was highly laxative. The ponds on the place had a blue, oily film on them. There had been a minimal speculative drilling for gas in the county before, but none within several miles of our place. Some carcinogens (radon gas for example) are insideous and not so easily detected. We have relied on a cistern (the atmosphere is quite a good filter) and purified the cistern water to get rid of local organic contaminants (bugs, leaves etc.). Since the beginning of the Marcellus shale gas play in Monroe County, I have advocated testing of wells throughout the county as a matter of public health, regardless of gas drilling. I am glad to see that its starting to take place. Perhaps we can all agree that's one health BENEFIT flowing from the gas boom. When our family moved to West Virginia 34 years ago, we attempted to use an existing water well for household water, but found it to be contaminated. It tasted bad and was highly laxative. The ponds on the place had a blue, oily film on them. There had been a minimal speculative drilling for gas in the county before, but none within several miles of our place.

Some carcinogens (radon gas for example) are insideous and not so easily detected. We have relied on a cistern (the atmosphere is quite a good filter) and purified the cistern water to get rid of local organic contaminants (bugs, leaves etc.).

Since the beginning of the Marcellus shale gas play in Monroe County, I have advocated testing of wells throughout the county as a matter of public health, regardless of gas drilling. I am glad to see that its starting to take place. Perhaps we can all agree that’s one health BENEFIT flowing from the gas boom.

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