I
just talked to several people at Butler county water quality division.
Fracking is not new and has been going on since the 1960’s in the
area. The contaminations comes from old coal mining in the area not
Fracking. One man lives in Butler and knows about Pennsic and said
there is no record of contaminated
water so far in the area. He has
been involved is water sample collection in the area. He said the only violations on water quality have been after heavy rain where the runoff
from the Fracking well platform was contaminated with chemicals, but no
more than if it were a housing project.
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Scott
Lux at DPT oil and gas (814-332-6865) says he thinks it is safe for
“this summer”, but we would need to keep Check on this for the future
(after actual drilling begins). He has had no actual problems with
water quality in the area. He said people complained about the fracking
in the area east of Coopers lake, and the company involved thought that
to make the people feel better they would give them water buffaloes for
their drinking water. (This bottled water turned out to be better
quality than their safe well water The wells were tested and
found to have no contamination) so they started fighting to keep the
free bottled water. He also states since it is a large public
gathering, at a public campground, the Coopers are supposed to have the
water tested before each Pennsic anyway. The results of the testing
are supposed to be public – If these are, I have never seen them –where
would/should they be posted at Pennsic? (If not posted they need to be,
especially this year )
We will pass this on to our area here – may make some people feel better (me included), at least for this year.
Hope this helps,
Lady Katherine d'Orleans
