After fracking waste from one disposal well was found to have moved underground for miles, residents in southeastern Ohio say the leak signals a threat to Marietta’s drinking water.
The fears now center on radioactive wastewater from oil and gas operations and whether it might reach aquifers beneath the Muskingum River Valley.
What happened?
After wastewater from the Redbird #4 injection well near Marietta traveled five miles underground into active oil and gas wells, residents, experts, and even local oil and gas employees became quite worried.
Bob Lane, who works in the oil and gas industry, plainly said at a press conference that “I think eventually [this fracking waste] will get to the city of Marietta’s water wells.”…