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The Water Issues Related To Hydrofracking In a Way People Can Understand it From Common Sense Don Siegel Syracuse University First, the Process.. Aquifer One Mile How Deep Will the Drilling Be? What is Injected. Concern over Losing Water

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The Water Issues Related To Hydrofracking

Don Siegel Syracuse University

In a Way People Can Understand it From Common Sense

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First, the Process..

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Aquifer

One Mile

How Deep Will the Drilling Be?

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What is Injected.

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Concern over Losing Water Needed for Drinking and Ecosystems

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Onondaga Creek

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Multiple water intake (dolphins)

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225 gal/s

225 gal/s =13,600 gallons per minute =19,400,000! gallons per day

Low Flow

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Concern over Industrialization of Landscape

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Gas Wells NOW ~ Ten Platforms per Square Mile.

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With Horizontal drilling

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Concern over Earthquakes and Fluids Migrating Upward During Fracking

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Aquifer

One Mile

How Deep Will the Drilling Be?

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Tiny micro-quakes

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Richter Scale 2.0

Energy Released 200 to 20,000 times Smaller than Can be Felt

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What About The Earthquakes?

New Madrid Fault Line

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Injection Wells In Salt Water Filled AQUIFERS

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Local Fractures In Mass of Solid Rock Injection Wells In Deep Aquifers

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Pollution of Water

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Constituent

1st Third 2nd Third Final Third Units Bromide 124 479 753MG/L Chloride 18,600 80,500 109,000 MG/L Sulfide <0.50 29.5 <2.5 MG/L

T. Dissolved Solids

34,578 133,620 192,000 MG/L Temperature 29.3 29.4 25.3Degrees C Barium 668 6,100 8,730 MG/L Iron, Total 23 31.3 71.9MG/L Magnesium 69.3 572 890 MG/L Gross Alpha 1,159 22.41 18,950 pCi/L Gross Beta 6,500 9.68 7,445 pCi/L Radium 226 33 2.58 4.67 pCi/L Radium 228 4.66 1.15 18.41 pCi/L Manganese, Total 0.73 1.8 2.79 MG/L Mercury, Total <0.0002 <0.0002 <0.0002 MG/L Molybdenum, Total 0.16 0.72 1.08 MG/L Nickel, Total 0.03 0.07 <0.01 MG/L Selenium, Total <0.02 <0.02 <0.02 MG/L Silver, Total <0.01 <0.01 <0.01 MG/L Thallium, Total <0.02 <0.02 0.1MG/L Titanium, Total 0.06 <0.01 <0.01 MG/L Zinc, Total 0.036 0.028 0.035 MG/L

FLOWBACK WATER

(From a well in SW Pennsylvania.)

Courtesy Bill Kappel, USGS

Yes, this is Very bad water.

Three Times as Salty as the Ocean!!!

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Waste Storage In The Past

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A MOOT POINT FOR THE FUTURE

Reused in Drilling

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Finally: Concern Over Gas Coming

ut of wells after production.