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Baseline Groundwater Study in Athens and Belmont Counties

Baseline Groundwater Study in Athens and Belmont Counties. State of the Region Conference June 4, 2013 Dr . Natalie Kruse Daniels and Jennifer Bowman Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs. Funders and partners. The Sugarbush Foundation

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Baseline Groundwater Study in Athens and Belmont Counties

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  1. Baseline Groundwater Study in Athens and Belmont Counties State of the Region ConferenceJune 4, 2013 Dr. Natalie Kruse Daniels and Jennifer Bowman Ohio University’s Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs

  2. Funders and partners • The Sugarbush Foundation • Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (ISEE) Laboratory • Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Laboratory • Analytical Associates (AA) Laboratory

  3. Potential Threats to Water Quality from the Process of Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing James Saiers, Professor of Hydrology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, November, 2011

  4. Sampling Locations in Athens, Hocking, Meigs, and Perry County

  5. Baseline Groundwater Water Quality Testing

  6. Regional report • Final report in progress • Box plots of water quality found at the acid mine drainage sites graphed separately • Concentrations above MCL • @ mine sites: Al and As • @ GW sites: Pb and As (As ISEE lab only) • List of parameters at or below detection level (all VOCs)

  7. Acid mine drainage sites Groundwater sites

  8. Ohio wells 2011-2012

  9. Good reasons for baseline pre-drilling monitoring A study titled Hydraulic Fracturing and Safe Drinking Water Act Issues written by the Congressional Research Service in July 2012 Stated : “A key barrier to better understanding groundwater contamination risks that may be associated with hydraulic fracturing has been the lack of scientific studies to assess the practice and related complaints.” Ashale gas study titled Fact-Based Regulation for Environmental Protection in ShaleGas Development, by the Energy Institute at the University of Texas in Feb. 2012 Stated: “Regarding claims of water well impacts from shale gas development (mainly involving methane, turbidity, odor, and chemical contaminants), the report notes that such constituents in many cases were present before shale gas development, but often there is insufficient baseline (pre-drilling) sampling or monitoring to establish the impacts of drilling fracturing, and other operations.”

  10. Thank You! Dr. Natalie Kruse Daniels Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies krusen@ohio.edu Jennifer Bowman Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs Energy and the Environment, Senior Project Manager bowmanj2@ohio.edu

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