Fracking water poses no threat to groundwater, according to paper
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
No need to fear the effects of injection well water, according to Pennsylvania State University.
A recent paper explained that the water used for fracking, which is injected into fracking wells along with sand and chemicals to fracture rock that holds shale gas, remains isolated in the rock. Some injected water, called residual treatment water (RTW), does come back to the surface and can be treated once it comes to the surface.
From Pennsylvania State University:
“The researchers report that groundwater contamination is not likely because contaminant delivery rate would be too small even if leakage were possible, but more importantly, upward migration of RTW is not plausible due to capillary and osmotic forces that propel RTW into, not out of, the shale.”
Via: Pennsylvania State University > Residual hydraulic fracturing water not a risk to groundwater
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