Diesel in Water Near Fracking Confirms EPA Tests Wyoming Disputes
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Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- A retest of water in Pavillion,Wyoming, found evidence of many of the same gases and compoundsthe Environmental Protection Agency used to link contaminationthere to hydraulic fracturing, the first finding of that kind.
A U.S. Geological Survey report on its water testing of onemonitoring well near the rural Wyoming town -- where someresidents complain that gas drilling and hydraulic fracturingcontaminated their drinking supplies -- identified levels ofmethane, ethane, diesel compounds and phenol, which the EPA hadalso identified in its report last year.