Thursday, June 16, 2011

Methane and Contaminants Migrate to Drinking Water

This problem has been going for the past few years and in each case we read that they are investigating the cause…

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12195167

The Garfield County report is significant because it is among the first to broadly analyze the ability of methane and other contaminants to migrate underground in drilling areas, and to find that such contamination was in fact occurring. It examined more than 700 methane samples from 292 locations and found that methane, as well as wastewater from the drilling, was making its way into drinking water not as a result of a single accident but on a broader basis.

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