Washington County, OH
In September 2020 MDN brought you the news that the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) is investigating the possibility that shale wastewater pumped into an injection well in Washington County, OH was migrating and coming out of producing conventional natural gas wells some five miles away (see OH Injection Well Said to Leak Wastewater into Wells 5 Miles Away). A sudden increase in brine--naturally occurring water with lots of minerals from thousands of feet below the surface--began in late 2019. Indeed, it looks like the injection well *is* leaking--via natural cracks underground. However, the leaks do not reach up thousands of feet into the water aquifer--that's the good news.
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