Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: Lynn Macy

3/26/18 @ 7:30 PM

Please as Americans we MUST protect the waters of the Delaware River Basin. It is essential to life on this planet! Wildlife and as well ad human life could be adversely affected by the pollution created from Fracking. Dangerous chemicals should NOT ...↓

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Comment From: Nancy Chismar

3/26/18 @ 7:16 PM

For the health of our planet and all of it's sentient beings, refrain from fracking.

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Comment From: G Y

3/26/18 @ 6:45 PM

The Delaware River Basin is an environmental treasure that's under threat from fracking and pipelines and we must have a permanent ban to protect it. It is the largest river on the eastern seaboard. This environmentally sensitive area supplies clean ...↓

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Comment From: Rhoda Ondov

3/26/18 @ 5:16 PM

No hydraulic Fracking.

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Comment From: James Loney

3/26/18 @ 4:44 PM

I have a country home in Sullivan County, NY. It is inexcusable that you are considering allowing corporate and governmental entities to allow ANY fracking whatsoever in the Delaware River Basin. It is also INEXCUSABLE that you even consider permitti...↓

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Comment From: Sara Corrigan

3/26/18 @ 3:54 PM

Our health and wellbeing is affected by your decision making. Please make the right choice by banning fracking to protect our environment and drinking water. Thank you ...

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Comment From: Erin Foley-Collins

3/26/18 @ 2:38 PM

Please oppose all fracking and protect our health and lives .

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Comment From: Lynne Weiss

3/26/18 @ 2:28 PM

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Comment From: sharon richardson

3/26/18 @ 2:08 PM

* Prevent the natural gas fracking industry from sending its polluted wastewater into the Delaware River watershed and * Prevent natural gas frackers from grabbing water out of the Delaware River Basin. Slowing the spread of frackin...↓

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Comment From: Patrice Massaro

3/26/18 @ 1:58 PM

No fracking! Ever!

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Comment From: Rachel Jorgensen

3/26/18 @ 1:55 PM

Dear Commissioners: I am writing to support the DRBC's proposal to protect our natural resources by prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Basin. I urge you, however, to strengthen regulations that would let drillers withdraw milli...↓

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Comment From: David Gever

3/26/18 @ 1:54 PM

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Comment From: Stephanie Schultz

3/26/18 @ 1:53 PM

We want a complete ban on dangerous fracking. We need to protect our water from the damaging effects of fracking. Please help. Thank you.

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Comment From: Marilyn Rye

3/26/18 @ 1:51 PM

Ending fracking in the DVB is a commendable move. However, using water from the basin to promote fracking activities even outside this area is fraught with dangers leading to environmental destruction and must be banned. As the EPA found (and these c...↓

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Comment From: Jay Podle

3/26/18 @ 1:47 PM

As a concerned citizen, I would like to advocate for complete banning of fracking and all fracking related activities in the Delaware river basin. Fracking is widely responsible for poisoning both land and water. The damage is often irreversible. Wat...↓

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Comment From: Chris Hazynski

3/26/18 @ 1:46 PM

Please stop fracking. It is destroying the environment.

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Comment From: Gennaro F. DeLucia

3/26/18 @ 1:40 PM

NO FRACKING IN THE DELAWARE BASIN, EVER!!

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Comment From: Roberta Utenwoldt

3/26/18 @ 1:39 PM

No fracking!

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Comment From: Sharon Beres

3/26/18 @ 1:36 PM

I'm strongly opposed to any drilling or fracking in the Delaware basin.

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Comment From: Linda Rossin

3/26/18 @ 1:26 PM

The world is suffering droughts everywhere, including areas in our own country. To add more pollution from fracking to our lakes and rivers would be totally irresponsible. We cannot repeal common sense protections for this irreplaceable commodity. ...↓

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Comment From: David Yennior

3/26/18 @ 1:23 PM

Fracking is a scourge on the environment. Each well requires millions of gallons of clean water which is mixed with toxins then injected into the earth. While clean, safe drinking water is becoming more scarce, these millions of gallons are never ret...↓

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Comment From: chris cerniglia

3/26/18 @ 1:19 PM

the fracking industry are the most greediest cock suckers i have ever seen well the most next to the nuke industry which we dont need. the under ground aquifers are so vital to the American people and the future people who the fuck do you think you a...↓

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Comment From: Michelle Matel

3/26/18 @ 1:12 PM

Fracking should be completely banned until more comprehensive studies are conducted relating to health and environmental effects on water supplies. A recent, peer-reviewed study that appeared in Science Advances has shown that infants born to mothers...↓

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Comment From: Jocelyn DeCrescenzo

3/26/18 @ 1:02 PM

I live in Rockland County, New York, where our legislative body has passed a resolution to NOT permit ANY and ALL fracked waste or products derived from such to be transported through, on or spread on our roads as road salt for winter weather. Altho...↓ugh New York has banned fracking, it continues to allow fracked product to go through our state, much to the detriment of its people and its environment. New York- instead of truly going green, and so behind the times, continues to invest in the infrastructure which supports the oil and gas industries. The fracked gas from Pennsylvania - the Marcellus shale especially, has an extremely high radioactive content which is proven carcinogenic. Permitting the withdrawal of water from the Basin to satisfy the fracking industry threatens the availability of fresh water for 17 MILLION people, as well as gravely impacting the ecology of the longest free- running river in the North East. I am seriously concerned about the proposed regulations by the DRBC regarding fracking in the Basin, water withdrawals for fracking elsewhere, and the disposal of "produced water" and any other byproducts of fracking into the Basin. The Delaware River is a source of drinking water for millions of people. In addition, consider that the withdrawal of water from the Basin will continue to hamper the ability of the water bodies (streams, wetlands and the River itself) to dilute pollutants and will change the fragile ecology of said water bodies thereby entirely threatening those very ecosystems. This is unacceptable. As far as discharges of fracking wastewater into rivers and streams are concerned, even such water as that which has gone through waste water treatment plants which have been specifically designed and constructed for this kind of water, I quote from the Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction), Fifth Edition, as follows: "July 12, 2017- In Western Pennsylvania, a team of researchers looked at sediment in the Conemaugh River watershed downstream of a treatment plant that was designed to treat fracking wastewater. The researchers found contamination for many miles downstream with fracking related chemicals that included radium, barium, strontium, and chloride, as well as endocrine-disrupting and carcinogenic compounds. "Watershed-scale impacts from surface water disposal of oil and gas wastewater in Western Pennsylvania. Environmental Science and Technology. 2016" "Fracking can contaminate rivers and lakes with radioactive material, study finds. The independent. July 12, 2017. Again, from the afore mentioned Compendium-"Substantial evidence shows that drilling and fracking activities, and associated wastewater disposal practices, inherently threaten groundwater and have polluted drinking water sources, as confirmed by the 2016 final report of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the impacts of fracking on the nations drinking water" With this, I find it outrageous that the people and the State seem to have no rights of and for protections from the oil and fracking companies whose financial gain only goes straight into the pockets of the CEO's et al, etc... and into the pockets of their stockholders and investors. The rich get richer and the people and this planet will die from preventable sickness and disease. When there is no safe water to drink because of polluted aquifers and Rivers and bodies of potable water, itwon't matter at all. It will be a water war. With all of these findings and this science, these facts, it is imperative now more than ever before that fracking,water withdrawal for fracking, and dumping of fracked wastewater, including "produced water", be prohibited in the Delaware River Basin, and that the Commission include language in the regulations that allow for NO exceptions. A total and complete ban is in order at this point in time.

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Comment From: Sister Josie P

3/26/18 @ 12:56 PM

There is nothing safe in fracking

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Comment From: Marion Steininger

3/26/18 @ 12:53 PM

It damages the Delaware River if fracking wastes are dumped into it. That's as close to a 'no-brainer' as you can get.....

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Comment From: Robert Miner, DDS

3/26/18 @ 12:46 PM

For once, do the right thing for the environment and the health of our citizens, not for the few over compensate few

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Comment From: Joseph Caravano

3/26/18 @ 12:18 PM

We do not need to take the risk of contaminating our Delaware River Basin with the bi products from fracking, espically in such a populated area.The need for fossil fuels is becoming less and less every year. What we need is more reliable solar , win...↓

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Comment From: Kenneth W Johnson

3/26/18 @ 12:17 PM

Fracking contaminates water supplies and causes earthquakes. End of story.

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Comment From: Matt King

3/26/18 @ 12:09 PM

I oppose fracking in all its forms ANYWHERE within the United States.

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Comment From: Patricia Infantino

3/26/18 @ 12:03 PM

We need a complete ban of water from hydraulic fracturing. The water used to facilitate this process is contaminated with chemicals that dont even have to be identified. Our aquifers will become contaminated and we shall be unable to drink our natu...↓

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Comment From: Howard Iwahashi

3/26/18 @ 12:00 PM

Fracking is unsafe, unproven and exists for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many.

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Comment From: David Lavender

3/26/18 @ 11:56 AM

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Comment From: Ellen Belisle

3/26/18 @ 11:49 AM

Our drinking water is a precious commodity. Fracking and using the Delaware River Basin to dump waste from fracking is a stupid idea. Once contaminated it would take too much time and money to clean up this natural resource. Forget about the tempo...↓

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Comment From: amy eilert

3/26/18 @ 11:47 AM

I oppose fracking in the Delaware River Basin

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Comment From: KIm Sellon

3/26/18 @ 11:40 AM

I want to implore you to implement a complete fracking ban in the Delaware River Basin. We don't want fracking in the Basin and we don't want frack waste either! We need a complete ban that does not allow billions of our precious drinking water to ...↓

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Comment From: Thomas Doherty

3/26/18 @ 11:39 AM

The horizontal drilling thru shale fields and the fracking process creates wells that can not be fully sealed. The result is disturbed methane that migrates up thru the myriad of rock fissures to eventually be released to the atmosphere. From there...↓

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Comment From: Gordon Latham

3/26/18 @ 11:34 AM

Stop selling your soul for the $. Native Americans don't have a word for land ownership. They believed they were caretakers for the next generation!! Don't Fuck it up for your kids sake please!!!!!

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Comment From: Trout Unlimited and partners (David Kinney)

3/26/18 @ 11:22 AM

Commissioners: Please find attached a letter from 41 national, regional, and local organizations representing sportsmen and women in the Delaware River Basin states regarding the DRBC's proposed regulation of hydraulic fracturing. Please do not he...↓

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Comment From: Patricia Harris

3/26/18 @ 11:16 AM

Hydraulic Fracturing is destroying our natural resources and should stop immediately. The welfare of our planet is at stake.

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Comment From: Leonard Mollod

3/26/18 @ 11:12 AM

Please do not allow Fracking water and Fracking waste water to bereaved and then put back into the Delaware basin. It makes no sense and is dangerous to health and water safety in the region.

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Comment From: Jean Kuhn

3/26/18 @ 11:10 AM

Please ban all fracking in the Delaware Valley. Our drinking water depends on it being clean and free of waste chemicals that come from the water used in the fracking. This process is a dirty and dangerous way to get fuel. We need clean energy all ...↓

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Comment From: Brian de Castro

3/26/18 @ 11:06 AM

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Comment From: Mary Miller

3/26/18 @ 10:53 AM

Please refuse all fracking. Our drinking water is vital and good water is scarce. Don't put it in jeopardy Thank you

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Comment From: john branigan

3/26/18 @ 10:51 AM

We want a complete fracking ban in the basin. We don't want fracking in the Basin and we don't want frack waste either! We need a complete ban that does not allow billions of our precious drinking water to be used for fracking and billions of gallo...↓

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Comment From: STEPHEN MARSHALL

3/26/18 @ 10:50 AM

I want the DRBC to support complete fracking ban in the basin. I don't want fracking in the Basin and I don't want frack waste either! I want a complete ban that does not allow billions of NJ precious drinking water to be used for fracking a...↓

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Comment From: Dorothy Jackson

3/26/18 @ 10:49 AM

The Delaware River Basin is an environmental treasure. It must have a permanent ban on fracking and pipelines to protect it. As the largest river on the eastern seaboard, it is environmentally sensitive area that supplies drinking water for more than...↓

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Comment From: Angela Plagge

3/26/18 @ 10:49 AM

A Complete. Ban. On. Fracking. Is necessary.

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Comment From: Kathryn Pierro

3/26/18 @ 10:43 AM

For any ban on fracking to be effective, it must uniformly protect waterways and land. We cannot prohibit the exercise of fracking in one place, only to allow dumping of fracking byproducts upstream. Please revise these rules to completely prohibit f...↓

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Comment From: Jo Ann McGreevy

3/26/18 @ 10:42 AM

What in the world is the matter that you cannot see the dangers that will develop if this is instituted!

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Comment From: Denise Frullo

3/26/18 @ 10:26 AM

Short and sweet - NO fracking and NO fracking waste! Thanks in advance for your consideration in this matter.

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Comment From: Thomas Ogren

3/26/18 @ 10:25 AM

All fracking waste originating in the state of Pennsylvania should be discharged into a river or rivers within the state and not in the Delaware River which is shared with New Jersey. Since Pennsylvania has decided to allow fracking it should deal w...↓

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Comment From: Roberta Wagner

3/26/18 @ 10:23 AM

Please o fracking or damaging our waterways

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Comment From: Michael Odell

3/26/18 @ 10:21 AM

Hydraulic fracking is a total travesty, squeezing the proverbial blood from a stone. Besides contaminating ground / well water, the by products, ie waste are just as bad. petrol distillates to depleted uranium to mention a few. And you guys at DRBC w...↓

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Comment From: Sandy Pelland

3/26/18 @ 10:20 AM

The Delaware River Basin is an environmental treasure!! We must have a permanent ban to protect it. It is the largest river on the eastern seaboard. This environmentally sensitive area supplies clean drinking water for more than 17 million people. Th...↓

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Comment From: Laura Lynch

3/26/18 @ 10:18 AM

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Comment From: Gertrude Glazer

3/26/18 @ 10:16 AM

I am urging a complete ban on fracking in the basin which will include a ban on fracking waste. As a resident of Hopewell Borough I know that many people depend on this area for clean water and beautiful recreation with our natural environment. The...↓

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Comment From: Greg Krawczyk

3/26/18 @ 10:13 AM

The Delaware River Basin is an environmental treasure. It supplies drinking water for 17 million people. There must be neither fracking nor any fracking waste dumping in this precious natural resource.

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Comment From: wendy Curtis

3/26/18 @ 10:04 AM

Special Regulations Part 440 - Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale & other Formations. We need to protect our land & water ways - do not allow fracking - this is detrimental to our environment. The benefits do NOT outweigh the risks to our environment!!

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Comment From: Jose Alfaro

3/26/18 @ 10:02 AM

These are destructive and should be prohibited as such.

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Comment From: William Ryan

3/26/18 @ 10:00 AM

I am opposed to fracking in the Delaware Valley River Basin. I am also opposed to the use of billions of gallons of water from the Delaware to be used in the fracking process. Finally, it is inconceivable to me that you would allow fracking waste to ...↓

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Comment From: Melissa Friedman

3/26/18 @ 10:00 AM

Please ban all fracking in the Delaware water basin, as it supplies drinking water to millions of people.

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Comment From: Alice Artzt

3/26/18 @ 9:59 AM

No Fracking - dangerous - poisonous - and we don't need it.

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Comment From: Walter Rothaug

3/26/18 @ 9:54 AM

Keep the Delaware River water pure by not permitting fracking in the Delaware Basin.

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Comment From: Hattie Heavner

3/26/18 @ 9:54 AM

I am against any fracking in any New Jersey location.

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Comment From: William Elbert

3/26/18 @ 9:50 AM

My family has owned a house on the river since 1926. I grew up enjoying many different activities along the river and in the area and I want my children and grandchildren to have that same opportunity. I remember when the Eagles were gone and am thr...↓

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Comment From: LESLIE COHEN

3/26/18 @ 9:50 AM

Please support a complete fracking ban in the basin. We don't want fracking in the Basin and we don't want frack waste either! We need a complete ban that does not allow billions of our precious drinking water to be used for fracking and billions o...↓

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Comment From: Maki Murakami

3/26/18 @ 9:42 AM

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Comment From: Kelly Kappler

3/26/18 @ 9:40 AM

I support a FULL fracking ban in the Delaware River Basin. Please don't allow water to be utilized from our area to support dirty fracking elsewhere and certainly don't allow disposal of contaminated wastewater from fracking into our drinking water s...↓

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Comment From: Molly Marinaccio

3/26/18 @ 9:39 AM

Clean drinking water is essential for all, Fracking is a short lived and unviable option.

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Comment From: Eugene Pumphrey

3/26/18 @ 9:37 AM

Fracking has caused problems in PA and OK -- poisoned drinking water and more frequent earthquakes. Leave the Delaware River Basin alone!

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Comment From: Robert Wozniak

3/26/18 @ 9:34 AM

I wish to see a ban on all fracking!

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Comment From: Eleanor/Martin Gruber

3/26/18 @ 9:33 AM

We are writing in opposition to your proposed rule allowing wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, or "produced" water to be processed in wastewater treatment plants. You cannot regulate what you cannot identify, and in this case, there are many unkn...↓

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Comment From: Mark van Rossen

3/26/18 @ 9:33 AM

It is a well established fact that hydro-fracking degrades water systems and introduces dangerous/carcinogenic materials into the environment. Fracking must be prohibited. It serves no purpose to maintain our dependence on fossil fuels. In the long r...↓

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Comment From: Chester raczkowski

3/26/18 @ 9:31 AM

Fracking should banned.

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Comment From: Jack & Patricia Fisher

3/26/18 @ 9:27 AM

Please cease immediately any and all hydraulic fracking in any part of New Jersey. Jack & Patricia Fisher

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Comment From: Cori Bishop

3/26/18 @ 9:26 AM

I believe we need a complete ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. It is not enough to ban it in the valley when dangerous waste water is still making its way into the river.

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Comment From: Christine Neill

3/26/18 @ 9:25 AM

NO fracking!

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Comment From: Marcia Sass

3/26/18 @ 9:24 AM

The Delaware River Basin is an environmental treasure that's under threat from fracking and pipelines. There must be a permanent ban to protect it. It is the largest river on the eastern seaboard. This environmentally sensitive area supplies clean dr...↓

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Comment From: Carroll Arkema

3/26/18 @ 9:24 AM

I'm writing to be clear that I want a complete fracking ban in the basin. I don't want fracking in the Basin and I don't want frack waste either! I need a complete ban that does not allow billions of our precious drinking water to be used for frack...↓

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Comment From: James Rapp

3/26/18 @ 9:22 AM

To Those Who Serve at The DRBC, I write today to implore you to uphold the strict enforcement of the traditional rules of the Congressional Compact enacted in 1961,"To Protect The Delaware River'. And Not to amend the rules so as to allow 'Any Fracki...↓ng Related Activities'. I strongly oppose the amendments that would allow water to be drafted from the basin for hydro-fracking. And I strongly oppose any amendments that would allow Fracking Produce Waste Water to be imported into the watershed for disposal or treatment. I beg you to continue the strict adherence and application of the traditional rules enacted by Congress "To Maintain And Protect" the Delaware River Basin. Any Fracking related activities ARE CLEARLY IN VIOLATION OF THAT COMPACT! And are in clear violation of those rules! As a property owner who has placed 11 acres in the river corridor in conservation for future generations to enjoy, and not being a wealthy man have indeed spoken loudly as a protector of the River Basin. The Delaware's proximity to the largest population centers, and the designation as a 'Wild And Scenic River' dictates that it is of exceptional value to every citizen of our great nation. It's role in the founding of our nation grants it historic prominence, and thereby DEEDS it to the Americans who founded her with their and sacrifice in perpetuity. The Congress of the United States recognized that and created the DRBC to preserve and protect the Delaware River Basin. The boundaries were purposefully envisaged,and drawn as the best practices to accomplish and execute the stated goals of The DRBC.To Preserve And Protect The Delaware River Basin. These rules written by experts in their respective fields are likely those Americans largest lasting contribution to America. Existing rules written in ink but paid for in blood. So... Do you intend to allow international corporations with but one mandate "to maximize profit for their shareholders" To pollute, destroy, and decimate, this recently recognized National Treasure? For what approximately 1 % of the recoverable gas in Pennsylvania? In estimate a 20 year supply to areas currently served by the unjust pipelines. Obviously not, No way, Not Now, Not ever. But you are considering allowing the WORST CASE SCENARIO! The removal of precious drinking water for 17 million people, filling baby bottles every minute with the cleanest surface water in the river system of the USA.WATER SACRIFICED FOR PERMANENT DESTRUCTION! Rendering it unfit for HUMAN CONSUMPTION, and forever removing it from the hydrologic cycle that is a crucial component to the preservation of the functioning eco-system you have sworn to protect. And recieved financial compensation to protect. BUT NOT ONLY THAT, you also are considering the DUMPING OF TOXIC, RADIOACTIVE, AND SUPER ENRICHED BRINE, FUEL LADEN, ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING, CANCER CAUSING BREW OF FRACKING WASTE, to be imported into The Basin and Dumped into the River and the Delaware Bay, then on down river into the ocean. WAIT... ALONG THE WAY PEOPLE WILL BE SWIMMING IN I, BATHING IN IT, AND DRINKING IT! Uptake in fish is scientific fact! Drinking polluted water causes disease in the consumer and in the womb through the mother in vitro, and through the mothers' milk. Fish with abnormalities from chemical exposure are scientific fact. Mothers attending future DRBC meetings with abnormal babies born with birth defects and their lawyers are your future if you pass these amended rules. Uphold The Compact ! Protect The Basin ! BAN FRACKING NOW ! And permanantly within the Basin BAN ALL FRACKING RELATED PRACTICES! DO NOT AMEND THE RULES TO FACILITATE FRACKING! Jim Rapp also of River Road Equinunk Pa.

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Comment From: Leland Montgomery

3/26/18 @ 9:19 AM

Fracking techniques are an important part of our energy supply chain, but as poor practices by a loosely-regulated industry in Pennsylvania have shown, the lack of discipline in the removal, use and storage of fracking water can cause irreversible da...↓

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Comment From: William Silverman

3/26/18 @ 9:17 AM

Leave fossil fuels in the ground. Fracking's negative environmental impacts are too great as are the risks of increasing the levels of methane in the atmosphere. Methane and the resulting carbon dioxide from its oxidation will only add to the already...↓

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Comment From: Walter B0ck

3/26/18 @ 9:15 AM

No frack9ing in the Delaware River Basin.Thank you.

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Comment From: Evelyn Marencik

3/26/18 @ 9:12 AM

ban all fracking immediately

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Comment From: Ruth Zowader

3/26/18 @ 9:12 AM

Please ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Fracking is not sufficiently understood to ensure that it can be done safely. And once done it cannot be undone. NJ already has a surplus of superfund sites. Allowing fracking water to be put into ...↓

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Comment From: Regina Littwin

3/26/18 @ 9:12 AM

I do not want fracking waste to be dumped into the Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: Gregory Maher

3/26/18 @ 9:10 AM

This country is already drowning in enough natural gas to last us 200 years. It is almost as cheap as dirt. The potential risk to our drinking water is not worth the hazard. No hydrofracturing in the Delaware basin!

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Comment From: Candace Bassat

3/26/18 @ 9:09 AM

Fracking is horrible for the environment and should be outlawed.

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Comment From: Paul Dougherty

3/26/18 @ 9:09 AM

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Comment From: Mudd Laboratory (Ned Heindel)

3/26/18 @ 8:50 AM

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Comment From: Gail Brunner

3/26/18 @ 8:43 AM

I congratulate the Commission that the new regulations will ban fracking for fossil fuels in the Delaware River Basin (DRB). However, I am appalled that these new regulations do not ban the entire process of fracking including banning of liquid prod...↓

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Comment From: Greg Young

3/26/18 @ 8:29 AM

The Delaware river is America's river- it is part of our national heritage and it is one of the last pristine rivers on earth. It provides 5% of America's drinking water. But it's not just people down river in New York Philadelphia and souther...↓

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Comment From: Ann Foster

3/26/18 @ 8:03 AM

I've lived in the Delaware River Basin for most of my 59 years and within a few miles of the Delaware River itself for a good part of them. I spent my last day of high school "cutting classes" and swimming with friends in it's waters just north of E...↓aston, and today I kayak and Fly Fish both the river and its headwater streams with my grandchildren. But I remember a time when the Shad didn't run because of pollution in industrialized regions, and my youth was filled with radio and news clips about a dam at Tocks Island. We have a national treasure here, one that brings billions of dollars of economic value to our area both in terms of recreation and tourism, water supply, and businesses and industries that rely upon it's clean waters for their very existence. My drinking water, like many in the NE region, is provided by a ground well and the replenishment of it's aquifers by the waters from within the basin , while millions more in NYC and Philadelphia rely upon a plentiful and healthy supply of the basins waters for their very health and existence. It's because of these reasons that I have grave concerns about the proposed ruling as it stands. While I support a total and permanent ban of fracking within the basin, I also am in great opposition to water withdrawals for use in the very heavily water intensive fracking industry and the deposit of treated waste water back into the basin. I live surrounded by headwater streams and already see some of them go dry during extended droughts in the summer and fall months. And I understand the disruption to watersheds and aquifers that can easily occur if water is withdrawn from one area and not deposited back into the same watershed. When your well goes dry along with your local creeks, you take notice. I'm also concerned about proprietary chemicals and waste in discharged fracking water. I don't want to see our national treasure become like rivers in western PA, making headlines for radium deposits found in it's waters. We know what we know, but we don't know it all yet ... at least not enough for me to feel comfortable supporting these proposed regulations. That's why I oppose these regulations as they stand, based upon the ambiguity of the water withdrawals and deposit of fracking wastewater. Thank you.

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Comment From: Tammy Belinsky

3/26/18 @ 8:03 AM

Your proposed regulations make water less available to public users. Your proposed regulations make water pollution by the fracking industry more likely and easier to pollute. Gas does not sustain life. Water sustains life. If you manage...↓

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Comment From: David McLallen

3/26/18 @ 6:52 AM

the more experience we get with hydraulic fracturing, the more dangerous it appears to be.

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Comment From: Joseph Buchanan

3/26/18 @ 6:46 AM

Fracking, fracking waste and construction of new pipelines should be banned from the entire River Valley. I am concerned that the proposed fracking regulations do not do enough to protect our precious river. The proposed regulations do not define f...↓

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Comment From: Terese Buchanan

3/26/18 @ 6:36 AM

I am very concerned about DRBC's proposed fracking regulations. It seems to me that they are more of a green light to pollution of the Delaware River Basin than a measure to protect our precious water resources and beautiful river valley. Frack...↓

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Comment From: Henry Alexander

3/26/18 @ 6:31 AM

I support a COMPLETE ban on fracking, fracking waste disposal, and use of Delaware River Basin water for fracking use. In my comments, I address two issues in this complex regulation. The first is that we want to ban any transfer into or storage of...↓ fracking fluids in the Delaware River basin. The second is that Fracking produces huge amounts of unused methane that is a significant greenhouse gas and which the industry has no intention of controlling. DRBC's draft regulations do not specifically propose that injection wells that would hold frack wastewater be allowed in the Delaware River Watershed. However, they do propose to allow wastewater from fracking to be brought into the Watershed for storage, treatment and discharge so "storage" could mean long-term storage of wastewater in underground wells within the Basin. This is a practice that threatens public health and the environment. Injection of wastewater does not "treat" waste or remove contaminants, it simply moves the toxic wastewater produced by fracking from one place and time to another. It risks the migration of untreated toxic and radioactive frack wastewater to aquifers and surface water through leaks from the injection well and spills and accidental releases while being handled. Injection wells are causing earthquakes in Ohio and Oklahoma as well as other locations, as documented by USGS and other scientific institutions. Injection wells are not leak-proof and can exposing groundwater and aquifers to contamination from the toxic mix that constitutes untreated frack wastewater when seals are broken and fractures occur as a result of seismic activity. The fracking boom is increasing the amount of methane being emitted to the atmosphere and the industry steadfastly refuses to control it. In a press event at COP23, Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology at Cornell University said, "Methane is an important greenhouse gas and is currently responsible for an amount of global warming equal to approximately 60% of that caused by carbon dioxide. Methane reductions offer one of the few available approaches to immediately slow the rate of global warming, since the climate responds more quickly to decreases in methane compared to carbon dioxide." A ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin is an important step in limiting methane emissions, but allowing water withdrawals and the processing of fracking waste in the Basin will only enable more fracking and, therefore, more methane leaks outside of the basin.

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Comment From: Jacquelyn Drechsler

3/26/18 @ 6:12 AM

I live in Rockland County New York and call on you to protect the people from the health, land, air and water risks associated with horizontal hydrofrack, otherwise known as fracking. The Marcellus shale deposits are known to be highly radioactive...↓. Fracking waste, which is very toxic, is allowed to be imoroperly stored, releasing it's toxins into ground water, fracking waste is used for "salting" of roads allowing for this waste to flow into land and waste water systems, into streams and rivers, many of which are used for drinking and bathing water for the public. For approximately 17 million people. Pennsylvania has been a sacrifice zone for the past 10 years while the fracking industry continues to run rough shod over the rights of people and states. Withdrawing fresh water which is irreplacable, to be used with the swamp of assorted toxic chemicals added in and then put back into the earth is totally irresponsible. The detriment to ecosystems, wildlife and human life, through the polluting life cycle of fossil fuel extraction will not be remediated. Once destroyed, forever destroyed. In these tertible times of climate change and it's effects on sustainability and resilience, it is imperative to not undermine saving our wetlands, our food chain and our water. There will be serious consequences such as water wars and migrations that may be able to be mitigated if we stop the extraction and use of fossil fuels. The health consequences from methane, particulate matter and VOC's, compressor and pigging stations are already known. There are serious health consequences from contamination by radium, barium, strontium and chloride as well as from endocrine disrupting and carcinigenic compounds. Fracked waste knows no bounds, whether through air, land or water. Anyone - any life, living downstream will feel the toxic effects. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2016 Final Report,Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating the Risks and Harms of Fracking (5th Ed.) of July 12, 2017, "Substantial evidence shows that drilling and fracking activities and associated waste water disposal practices, inherently threaten groundwater and have polluted drinking water sources, as confirmed by the EPA on the impacts of fracking on the nations drinking water." In Rockland County we have made a ban on fracked waste being used on our roads, even being driven through our county. There are heavy penalties. Fracking companies do not, and are not mandated to have funds to remediate the accidents that can and do happen in the communities they extract from, push their products through or destroy with improper practices. Who pays? The communities. It is imperative that fracking, water withdrawl for fracking, dumping of fracked waste water, including "produced water" be prohibited in the Delaware River Basin and that the Commission include language in the regulations that allow for no exceptions. We expect a total ban. Thank you.

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