Upper Burrell Supervisors Adopt Regulation Banning Injection Wells

Upper Burrell (Westmoreland County, PA) town supervisors have historically been receptive (or at least tolerant) to the Marcellus Shale industry that has so blessed their town and Westmoreland County. But attitudes seemed to change last December, at least with respect to wastewater injection wells (see Upper Burrell Twp Makes Moves to Ban Wastewater Injection Wells). The town’s Board of Supervisors instructed the town solicitor to draft an ordinance with stricter rules for the use of abandoned wells in the township. These wells could (theoretically) be used as wastewater injection wells. The board voted on Wednesday to adopt the new regs, which essentially block any injection wells in the town.

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