PAVILLION, WY — “Tests of drinking water near a natural-gas drilling site in Wyoming back up findings that established the first link by the federal government between hydraulic fracturing and tainted water, the Environmental Protection Agency said.
The EPA yesterday issued its follow-up analyses of two test wells it drilled in Pavillion and of five residents’ water wells, saying the pollutants it found were ‘consistent’ with the results last year used to establish that connection to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Water quality in Pavillion, Wyoming, has attracted national attention since the EPA’s draft report in December showed that fracking may have contaminated homeowners’ water.”
— Mark Drajem, Bloomberg News
