Researchers from Penn State analyzed the composition of mussels downstream of a wastewater treatment facility in Western Pennsylvania that had accepted and treated fracking wastewater. Credit: Poornima Tomy/Penn State
A new scientific study published in the June issue of Science of the Total Environment by two Penn State researchers confirms what everyone has known for the last 13 years: Recycling brine (frack wastewater) and releasing that recycled brine into groundwater supplies is not a good idea. The researchers sampled freshwater mussels downstream from a centralized wastewater treatment facility in western Pennsylvania that had accepted and treated fracking wastewater from the oil and gas industry for "two decades." They found low levels of radium in the mussels, radium that can be attributed to fracking wastewater.
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