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EPA may truck water to Pa residents near fracking site
Posted by Reuters: Edward McAllister and Timothy Gardner on January 6th, 2012
Reuters: Federal regulators are considering trucking fresh water to households in a Pennsylvania town where residents say wells have been polluted by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas.
Only a month after declaring water in Dimock safe to drink, the Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering action after residents supplied the EPA with hundreds of pages of data that link water pollution to fracking.
Two residents of Dimock, a town of some 1,400 in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania,...
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EPA may retest PA. water near fracking
Posted by Reuters: Edward McAllister and Timothy Gardner on January 6th, 2012
Reuters: Federal regulators are considering retesting water supplies at a small town in Pennsylvania that residents say have been contaminated by natural gas drilling.
Just a month after declaring water in Dimock safe, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency are taking another look after new evidence provided by residents suggested that drinking water could be more polluted than originally thought.
"We believe that additional information is needed to better understand the situation in Dimock...