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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Robert Walton wrote:

> You mentioned how gas is drilled (on its own pressure). Can drilling
> for gas damage ground water?


They form a lined pond for all the waste water, which is taken away at 
the end. The waste ponds look like the drainage from mines, which is 
nasty stuff. But again, it's supposed to be taken away. All the 
environmental damage I've heard of is from leaking waste ponds, and that 
is only one or two out of dozens of wells drilled. Once they are done, 
the well is supposedly safe. The well casings are double pipes filled 
with cement far below the water level. Our wells can go down to 400', 
but the gas wells go down more than 5000'.

I'm thinking of waiting until the company finishes the two sites I 
looked at, and seeing how they clean up. As someone said "the gas isn't 
going anywhere", and fortunately, the gas is trapped in shale and has to 
be 'fracted'?(shale blown apart with high pressure water) to get the gas 
out, so if my neighbor gets a well, they can't suck my gas out.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga County, PA


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