Sentences with phrase «drinking water wells near»

Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction

They say methane and other hydrocarbons in drinking water wells near fracking areas are a sign of this.

Not exact matches

Then came the most - publicized case of well - water contamination near fracking operations, in Dimock Township, Pa., just east of Bradford County; the federal Environmental Protection Agency said in 2012 that preliminary results found the water was safe to drink, though it did contain chemicals as well as explosive methane.

Near fracking operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, monitors with the Environmental Protection Agency detected unsafe levels of benzene in water - monitoring wells and methane and various hydrocarbons in public drinking water wells.

«Methane concentrations in drinking water were much higher if the homeowner was near an active gas well,» explains environmental scientist Robert Jackson of Duke University, who led the study published online May 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Moving septic systems further away from private wells and limiting development near wells could also help protect drinking water from contamination.

In other words, the lucky (but small) percentage of the population that lives near the ocean (a good source of magnesium) and eats foods grown in magnesium rich soil, drinks magnesium rich water, and doesn't suffer from stress or consume sugar or caffeine might be ok... but the rest of us might need some additional magnesium.

Two maybe three years ago I bought a bag of Chicken Jerky at Cost - Co thinking it would be a healthy treat for my Pug, after eating these treats I noticed he Mugsy would drink water like he could not get enough... Then one night he kept coming to me with his ears laid back and hanging with a look in his eye that I knew something was wrong, went to my daughters house as she is really into dogs and hoping she could figure it out, well she noticed he could not pee no matter how much he tried, so rushed him to the vet, thank God, had I waited he would have died as his bladder was full of crystals and was near rupturing, anyway the vet catheterized him after putting him under anesthesia as it was so painful, after all was said and done and $ 1, ooo.oo later, he ended up on a special diet which we kept him on for well over a year... decided to try a good, but less expensive dog food, had his urine checked and he was doing fine... I believe it was the chicken jerky and the salt content, but of course I can not be sure and I do not remember the brand... Thankfully he has had no more occurrences, needless to say he does not get chicken jerky anymore and definitely nothing from China at least not that I know of.

Research has found that groundwater nitrate levels in private wells across the state are nearing the state's drinking water standard of 10,000 micrograms per liter.

Earthquakes and contaminated drinking water not only sound horrible for people living near wells — they're also outrageous enough to mobilise outrage across the country.

In active gas - extraction areas (one or more gas wells within 1 km), average and maximum methane concentrations in drinking - water wells increased with proximity to the nearest gas well and were 19.2 and 64 mg CH4 L - 1 (n = 26), a potential explosion hazard; in contrast, dissolved methane samples in neighboring nonextraction sites (no gas wells within 1 km) within similar geologic formations and hydrogeologic regimes averaged only 1.1 mg L - 1 (P < 0.05; n = 34).

There are at least three possible mechanisms for fluid migration into the shallow drinking - water aquifers that could help explain the increased methane concentrations we observed near gas wells (Fig. 3).

The contamination of groundwater is of major concern for those who live near drilling operations and rely on drinking water wells.