Pennsic Fracking Issues

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