PA DEP Approves Restoration of ME2 Pipe Spill @ Marsh Creek Lake
If you lurk around the shoreline of Ranger Cove at Marsh Creek Lake (Chester County, PA) this week or next, you may spot people setting traps for Northern Red Belly Cooters. What’s a Northern Red Belly Cooter? It’s a turtle. The people setting the traps are working for pipeline giant Energy Transfer (ET). The traps are part of a plan to relocate the turtles while work is done to remediate a spill of nontoxic drilling mud that ended up in the lake back in the summer of 2020. Moving turtles is part of a plan approved by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) to clean up the spilled drilling mud and restore Marsh Creek Lake to its “pristine” (man-made) condition.
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