ApocaDocs: Streams Below Fracking Wastewater Treatment Show Elevated Salts, Metals, Radioactivity

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Posted Wed Oct 2 2013: from Duke University :


	Streams Below Fracking Wastewater Treatment Show Elevated Salts, Metals, Radioactivity http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1380724088 Elevated levels of radioactivity, salts and metals have been found in river water and sediments at a site where treated water from oil and gas operations is discharged into a western Pennsylvania creek. "Radium levels were about 200 times greater in sediment samples collected where the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility discharges its treated wastewater into Blacklick Creek than in sediment samples collected just upstream of the plant," said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.

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'Doc Michael says:

I'd hate to see what untreated wastewater is like.