Illegal Wastewater Dumping in Greene County, PA?

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mysteryA disturbing bit of news. Officials in Waynesburg, PA (county seat of Greene County, in the very southwestern tip of PA) say about 4,000 gallons of a "gray, milky substance" flowed through the local sewage treatment plant and that the plant's flow meters spiked up when it happened. In other words, someone, somewhere dumped something down a manhole and that something got processed by the plant and ultimately discharged into Ten Mile Creek. The disturbing bit is that the plant's operators, along with the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP), think the substance dumped may have been frack wastewater...

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