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    EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming Aquifer

    As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.

    A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

    The findings are consistent with water samples the EPA has collected from at least 42 homes in the area since 2008, when ProPublica began reporting on foul water and health concerns in Pavillion and the agency started investigating reports of contamination there.


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    Now, to annul fracking's ( head's) exemption for the Clean Water Act and to define penalties for frackers who destroy water, property values, etc.

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    That fracking is some bad stuff. They are punching holes ALL over Pennsylvania, and pumping alot of bad stuff down there. There is NO WAY they are controlling where it all goes; just in PA the water table is way above the shale. Just a matter of time, however....

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