Applications pending before the Susquehanna River Basin Commission from natural gas companies seeking to withdraw water from public sewer systems or the Susquehanna River in Wyoming County:
1- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC is seeking to withdraw water from the Susquehanna River Basin for natural gas well development in New York and Pennsylvania. The company expects to use 2.075 million gallons of water per day for the well development.
In New York, the natural gas well development will be in Tioga, Chemung, Steuben, Schuyler and Broome counties, according to Chesapeake. In Pennsylvania, natural gas well development will be in Susquehanna, Bradford, Wyoming, Sullivan and Wayne counties.
2- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC is also seeking to withdraw up to 999,999 gallons of surface water per day from the Susquehanna River in Mehoopany for natural gas well development.
3- Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is seeking approval to obtain no more than 130,000 gallons of water per day from the Meshoppen Borough Water Company and Tunkhannock Borough Municipal Authority. Cabot expects to use the water for the development of natural gas exploration wells in Dimock and Springville.
Questions:
A) Does anyone have concerns about the proposed withdrawal (and use) of water from the river and municipal water systems?
B) Is there enough water to go around?
-- Josh Mrozinski
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4 comments:
Josh:
For anyone who's read about the Fracturing process that is part of the drilling, you have to ask what they are going to do with the tens, or hundreds of millions of gallons of tainted water that comes out of the wells. Until the SRBC and DEP or DEC tells us, in a clearly written statement, what they know and/or are allowing to be added to the water, all permits should be denied.
Josh,
These volumes are only the start.
In WV, Chesapeake is seeking 1000 foot spacing for Marcellus wells on over 1,000,000 acres under lease.
Could you reply by PM to me with source document location/ verification of these volumes?
I would not be as concerned here, as I would in the Southern Part of the state for water withdrawls, but have to agree with anonymous in what are they going to do with the tainted water??? This whole undertaking is a concern, from the drilling, to the land scarring, to the water misusage, to the after effects. No one really knows what the results will be after 20, 40, 50 years on groundwater, publc wells, surface groundwater flow, and habitat.
To verify where amount of water that the companies want withdrawn, contact the Susquehanna River Basin Commission. The commission also has a Web site, www.srbc.net.
And newspapers have published the legal ads.
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