State Demands Details on Gas Drillers' Water Use
Charleston Gazette
11 March 2010
By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The West Virginia Department of Environmental
Protection wants details about where oil and gas producers are getting
water for wells and how they'll dispose of it.
A new online form requires companies to cite the source they're
withdrawing from, and how they plan to treat and dispose of water
afterward.
It must be completed by any operator using more than 750,000 gallons to
hydraulically fracture a well in any natural gas formation, including
the vast Marcellus shale bed.
Scott Mandirola, acting director of the Division of Water and Waste
Management, says it also applies to companies fracking for coalbed
methane.
The information collected will help create a state Water Management
Plan, which is due with the Legislature in 2013.