With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces Flood of Wastewater
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 20:21
in Earth & Climate
Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy used to power their plants contained so much salty sediment that it was corroding their machinery. Nearby residents saw something odd, too. Dishwashers were malfunctioning, and plates were coming out with spots that couldn’t easily be rinsed off. [More]
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