Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: Charles Phillips

3/23/18 @ 12:11 AM

Fracking and fracking waste must be banned from the Delaware River basin, as this area provides drinking water to 5% of America, and is the only mainstem river in America that has not been dammed. The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area provi...↓

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Comment From: Stephen Morris

3/23/18 @ 12:07 AM

Our poor poisoned planet. Our poor raped planet.

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Comment From: Peter Altman

3/22/18 @ 11:28 PM

Ban Fracking in the Delaware River Basin!! Here in the United States we see many communities struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Unfortunately, the DRBC-proposed regulations banning fracki...↓

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Comment From: TAMMY NEALIS

3/22/18 @ 11:21 PM

The Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River Basin. Unfortunately, those regulations don't protect ALL communities – they continue to allow for the exportation of water from the Basin to fracking elsewhere AN...↓

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Comment From: Ian Notte

3/22/18 @ 11:06 PM

TO Whom it May Concern: Please ban hydraulic fracturing techniques from the Delaware River basin. The science is very clear that this technique would jeopardize the quality of drinking water for millions of Americans were it to occur in the Delawar...↓

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Comment From: Margery Schab

3/22/18 @ 5:05 PM

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: Lani Schaffer

3/22/18 @ 5:00 PM

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Comment From: Ricardo Hidalgo

3/22/18 @ 4:55 PM

Here in the United States we see many communities struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River Basin. U...↓

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Comment From: Allan Post

3/22/18 @ 4:41 PM

There is no way on earth fracked water should be inported anywhere. Certainly not into the Delaware River Basin where citizens have expressed such an unequivocal desire NOT to have it. They are not friends of fracking there, and indeed they and I are...↓

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Comment From: Elizabeth Bucar

3/22/18 @ 4:28 PM

When I was an Ohio kid, we drove forEVER through Pennsylvania's endless forests to see my aunt in The Big Apple. I dreamed a lot of dreams watching that infinity of trees flying past. Protect them and defend Pennsylvania's Basin. Defend its farms, i...↓

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Comment From: Laura Wrixon

3/22/18 @ 4:24 PM

Many communities are struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Clean water is a basic right and our communities need to be protected. Please stop allowing for the exportation of water from the Basi...↓

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Comment From: Valerie McLean

3/22/18 @ 3:38 PM

All Fracking & waste dumping must be banned in the basin .

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Comment From: Lynn Williams

3/22/18 @ 3:36 PM

Water is maybe our most precious resource. Water is life. We're removed from that awareness because wherever we (most of us) live, we just turn on the faucet - no big deal. After all, water falls out of the sky, right? But the reality is that man...↓

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Comment From: P.P. Soucek

3/22/18 @ 3:30 PM

How much tangible evidence of the dangerous repercussions of fracking do you need to more stringently regulate what is obviously a ticking time bomb? Irreperably damaging the environment for what? So we can drive SUVs to yoga class?

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Comment From: Susan Herting

3/22/18 @ 3:25 PM

As a concerned citizen I urge you to ban all fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Protect our communities, no import of wastewater and no export of precious water. Thank you

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Comment From: Christopher Pedersen

3/22/18 @ 3:21 PM

No fracking in the Delaware River basin!! Clean water is too precious a resource to waste or destroy.

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Comment From: Susan Herting

3/22/18 @ 3:21 PM

As a concerned citizen I urge you to ban all fracking in the Delaware River Basin, no exports of precious water and no import of wastewater. Don't endanger our communities! Thank you

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Comment From: Susan Herting

3/22/18 @ 3:20 PM

As a concerned citizen I urge you to ban all fracking in the Delaware River Basin, no exports of precious water and no import of wastewater. Don't endanger our communities! Thank you

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Comment From: Sheila Tran

3/22/18 @ 3:14 PM

Please do not start fracking in your state. I don't think you want earthquakes like Oklahoma has almost on a daily basis. Not to mention, it ruins drinking water and injects many types of poison into the earth and water. Please reconsider.

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Comment From: Tom Strawman

3/22/18 @ 3:04 PM

I wish to express my opposition to permitting fracking activity of any kind in the Delaware River Basin, including the use of its waters or the disposal/treatment of fracking waste water from outside the basin. I write from the opposite coast on P...↓

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Comment From: Laura Navitsky

3/22/18 @ 3:01 PM

The Delaware River Basin Commission should not allow hydraulic fracturing companies to use our freshwater and give us their wastewater. Pennsylvania is beautiful because of its water supply which makes it one of the greenest states. One of my favori...↓te things to do in the Lehigh Valley growing up was to go tubing in the river and now as an adult I hope to enjoy the natural beauty of this area for many years to come. If we start diverting water to a water-consumptive industry like hydraulic fracturing, our area may begin to look more like the Western states which chronically suffer from droughts. The Delaware River Basin Commission is already aware of a Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) report that 96% of water withdrawn for hydraulic fracturing is used consumptively, i.e. permanently removed from the basin's ground/surface waters ("18 CFR Parts 401 and 440", p. 7). While it may sound like we are only temporarily letting these companies "borrow" our water and that it will be replenished, the truth is that we will be losing vast quantities of water and accepting an unusable, toxic byproduct in its place. Besides decreasing the water supply through water withdrawals, the transportation of wastewater back to the area for disposal is apt to degrade the quality of our fresh water. People who are not familiar with "fracking" wastewater may not know how toxic it really is but I do because I worked with it firsthand. For my master's thesis I simulated production water spills using wastewater from Marcellus shale drilling operations and measured their effects on the soil, vegetation, and resulting leachate. At 200 ppt salinity, production water brine is 400 times more saline than saltwater, which in itself is enough to cause major ecosystem and crop damage; it also contains barium, chlorides, and other constituents of the underlying geologic formation, along with the many other additives used during injection. The public should not confuse it with everyday wastewater that can be sent to a water treatment plant. As much as it would be nice to think that there will be no accidental spills that contaminate our surface waters, it is unrealistic to assume that none of this large quantity of wastewater will enter our water basin. According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in 2015 there were 415,000 police-reported large truck crashes nationwide. With the increased traffic of water tanker trucks on our roads and highways there will be accidents and spills, not to mention the additional road congestion problems. Even given the miracle of no traffic accidents, one only needs to watch a garbage truck to know that there will be effluent escaping from these trucks while in transit. There is no doubt in my mind that this industry causes environmental problems, and export/import of water for usage in hydraulic fracturing should not be allowed here.

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Comment From: Donna Fellenberg

3/22/18 @ 3:00 PM

In these times of constant turmoil, living three miles from the Delaware river is a gift from heaven. Actually, it's a gift that I've worked hard to keep along with the thousands of others who care about our world, the air we breathe, the soil we g...↓

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Comment From: Leigh O'Brien

3/22/18 @ 2:54 PM

The Delaware River Basin Commission's proposed ban on fracking is an exciting milestone, but the proposed regulations do not fully protect communities from the impact fracking has as they still allow for the exportation of fracking wastewater from th...↓

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Comment From: Theresa Israel

3/22/18 @ 2:48 PM

Water is life! Every day throughout this country and around the world we see evidence of drought and the struggles people go through to access clean water. I truly believe that fracking and other destructive measures do have an immense impact on OU...↓

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Comment From: Kim Taylor

3/22/18 @ 2:44 PM

Please note that I am against fracking in this region altogether. Thank you, -- Kim Taylor

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Comment From: David Rizzo

3/22/18 @ 2:43 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: Christine Nadeau

3/22/18 @ 2:04 PM

Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River Basin. Unfortunately, those regulations don't protect ALL communities – they continue to allow for the exportation of water from the Basin to fracking el...↓

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Comment From: Spencer Merolla

3/22/18 @ 2:03 PM

I urge you to revise the draft to reflect a total ban on fracking related activities such as extracting water, transporting or disposing of wastewater in the Delaware River watershed. It is the contamination of the groundwater that concerns me. Where...↓

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Comment From: Kim R. F. Keller

3/22/18 @ 1:53 PM

I am writing in protest to Senator Gene Yaw's promotion of SR 104 to end the gas drilling moratorium. Why on earth should we allow this. There should be a Permanent ban of gas drilling. This will protect those in PA, east of the Susquehanna River wa...↓

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Comment From: Patricia Hartigan

3/22/18 @ 1:35 PM

I urge you to ban ALL fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Not just high volume. Protect EVERY community. You have this important responsibility and opportunity to act now. Clean water is disappearing from the planet. We MUST BEGIN TODAY to establi...↓

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Comment From: David Gassett

3/22/18 @ 1:20 PM

Please ban all fracking and fracking-related activities.

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Comment From: m risa

3/22/18 @ 1:17 PM

Our precious water...please let's NOT wait until we no longer have it to value it.

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Comment From: Stephan Devis

3/22/18 @ 1:09 PM

Please help us, stop contaminating our H2O. It's essential for our survival.

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Comment From: S. Gluck

3/22/18 @ 1:08 PM

Fracking is proving to be unsafe for human and animal life, and for the earth and our water. It has been shown to poison and ruin underground water resources that are then left unsafe for human consumption and uncleanable. Once we ruin our water sour...↓

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Comment From: Constance DeRooy

3/22/18 @ 1:02 PM

Please don't frack!! Don't savage this beautiful area!

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Comment From: Sherrill Futrell

3/22/18 @ 1:01 PM

Many communities are struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Recently, you have banned racking in the River Basin but those regulations don't protect ALL communities – they continue to allow for ...↓

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Comment From: Joan Roche

3/22/18 @ 12:54 PM

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Comment From: Michelle Mitchell

3/22/18 @ 12:53 PM

We want ALL fracking banned from the Basin.

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Comment From: Marketa Anderson

3/22/18 @ 12:47 PM

Please protect the Basin's water from not only local fracking but also the misuse of its water to support fracking at other locations. And even more importantly from the return of noxious fracking waste water. Sooner or later we need to wean ourselv...↓

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Comment From: Margery Schab

3/22/18 @ 12:41 PM

The Delaware river Basin is important to me and I am grateful you want to ban the fracking in the Basin. However,I have not found in the DRBC regulations a clause as to who will pay for the regulators or the bonds that should be posted in case of a c...↓

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Comment From: Leslie McClure

3/22/18 @ 12:39 PM

The scientific evidence is in and our precious water is at risk. When there is a shortage, we will have a refugee crisis unlike anything we've ever seen before. In the meantime, fracking uses too much water and pollutes the ground water needed to b...↓

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Comment From: Melissa Cahn

3/22/18 @ 12:34 PM

Stop all fracking in the Delaware river basin and exporting of water to do fracking. Preserve the watershed, the viewshed and the soundscape of this natural area set aside by the NPS as an important national resource

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Comment From: Kathleeb Thomas

3/22/18 @ 12:18 PM

In reference to the following draft regulations Special Regulations Part 440 - Hydraulic Fracturing in Shale and Other Formations. Revisions to the Commission's classifications for project review set forth at 18 CFR 401.35 Revisions to the Commi...↓

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Comment From: Susan Miller

3/22/18 @ 11:56 AM

Ban Fracking in the Delaware River Basin!! Here in the United States we see many communities struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regula...↓

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Comment From: Therese Dowd

3/22/18 @ 11:38 AM

Using precious water resources for fracking is unsustainable for our planet. Our country is seeing water shortages in certain areas and there is an increasing occurrence of droughts. Please use legislation to clarify that water resources are not to...↓

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Comment From: Joe Dervin

3/22/18 @ 11:37 AM

There is NOTHING more important to the citizens of this County than access to clean, pure water to drink and pollution free air to breathe.

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Comment From: Mary Kay Benson

3/22/18 @ 11:36 AM

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Comment From: David Fiedler

3/22/18 @ 11:33 AM

I get my drinking water from the Delaware watershed. I don't want to see waste water from frocking sites coming down river and getting in my water. Plus it's not good for all the fish wildlife and birds that depend on the watershed for their sustena...↓

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Comment From: John Holstein

3/22/18 @ 11:30 AM

Ban all fracking from the Delaware River Basin. Make a choice: You are working for either the residents of the Basin or you are working for the fatcat frackers.

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Comment From: Karin Yomboro

3/22/18 @ 11:18 AM

Clean, fresh usable air and water are our most precious and life giving elements. Fracking destroys both of these and fracked water will never be usable water again! Our forests, rivers, and wild places can not be replaced once they're destroyed by ...↓

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Comment From: Anne Bastian

3/22/18 @ 11:17 AM

Lease do not allow taking water from Delaware basin for fracking elsewhere and no fracking in delaware basin

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Comment From: Karin Yomboro

3/22/18 @ 11:16 AM

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Comment From: Mary Wellington

3/22/18 @ 11:14 AM

These regulations continue to allow for the exportation of water from the Basin to fracking elsewhere AND the importation of wastewater into the Basin for treatment. This is unacceptable. ALL fracking must be banned from the Basin.

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Comment From: Henrietta Stern

3/22/18 @ 11:03 AM

Because I live in New York City and because our city relies on clean water sources from upstate and the Delaware River Basin, I want to see a permanent ban on fracking and any possibility of water withdrawals as well as wastewater processing, storage...↓

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Comment From: Julie Parcells

3/22/18 @ 11:02 AM

Please protect drinking water and ban all fracking in the Basin!!

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Comment From: Myra Schegloff

3/22/18 @ 10:57 AM

No hydraulic fracking that pollutes our waterways. Clean water has to be protected.

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Comment From: Susan Porter and Howard Snyder

3/22/18 @ 10:48 AM

We would like to state our absolute support for a permanent ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. This must also include a ban on any and all impacts from fracking on the Delaware River and its basin. We are asking you to ensure that the Del...↓

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Comment From: Mary Kulpon

3/22/18 @ 10:45 AM

I support a complete ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Please choose to fully protect all communities by also including a ban on importing fracking waste water to the Delaware as well as exporting water from the Delaware for fracking. In...↓

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Comment From: Sarah Kolodny

3/22/18 @ 10:44 AM

There can be no fracking. It is unsafe, harmful to the environment, humans, society. Most important, we must get off fossil fuels immediately. It's a moral issue ;in order to save ourselves, our future generations and the planet we mst get off fossil...↓

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Comment From: Laura Leipzig

3/22/18 @ 10:40 AM

In the U.S. we see many communities struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. The recent proposed regulations banning fracking the River Basin does not protect all communities because they continue...↓

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Comment From: James Keenan

3/22/18 @ 10:35 AM

I am very concerned about the quality of our water. Please ban all fracking activities in the Delaware Water Basin. This includes transporting and storing fracking wastewater.

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Comment From: Katie Yu

3/22/18 @ 10:29 AM

the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River Basin. Unfortunately, those regulations don't protect ALL communities – they continue to allow for the exportation of water from the Basin to fracking elsewhere AN...↓

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Comment From: Dawn Heinzman

3/22/18 @ 10:24 AM

We, as lifeforms of planet earth, CANNOT SURVIVE WITHOUT WATER! Once fracking has begun, IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE WILL OCCUR, and the surrounding water sources WILL BE CONTAMINATED AND UNDRINKABLE! If, in spite of this, you choose to blindly barrel ahead ...↓

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Comment From: Teresa McFarland

3/22/18 @ 10:24 AM

Ban ALL fracking from the River Basin! We need clean safe water for everyone on the planet. Thank you, Teresa

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Comment From: Brad Brooks

3/22/18 @ 10:21 AM

Achieving a complete and permanent ban on natural gas drilling and fracking and all related activities (including wastewater processing and discharges from and water withdrawals for drilling and fracking operations)throughout the Delaware River Water...↓shed.Background, Delaware River Watershed in regional/national contextThere is a moratorium on all gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), water withdrawals for and wastewater treatment and discharges from fracking throughout the entire Delaware River Basin today, since 2010.The moratorium was put in place by the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), the federal-interstate agency thatmanagesthe water resources of the Delaware River Watershed. The DRBC members –the Governors of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, and the federal government –have the responsibility ofprotectingthe shared waters that provide 15-17million people in all four of the Watershed states with drinking water, includingNew YorkCity and Philadelphia.The Delaware River was designated as a national Wild and Scenic River by Congress because of its outstanding features, irreplaceable resources, exceptional water quality and scenic and recreational value. These prized assets provide important economic benefit to all four states whose tributaries flow to the Delaware River. These values are gravely jeopardized by fracking and its polluting operations and must be protected for the public and future generations. The entire nontidal Delaware River is protected by DRBC's Special Protection Waters regulations that do not allow water quality to be diminished in any way. We are dependent on that protection to keep our water safe.After exhaustive study, the State of New York prohibited fracking based on environmental and public health analysis. The NY Department of Health concluded that the overall weight of the evidence demonstrated the likelihood that adverse health outcomes and environmental impacts from fracking could not be prevented, leading to the Governor's decision to ban high volume hydraulic fracturing in the state.1The State of Maryland permanently banned fracking after 2 years of study, based on the potential for adverse public health and environmental impacts.21http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/materials_minerals_pdf/findingstatehvhf62015.pdfhttp://www.health.ny.gov/press/reports/docs/high_volume_hydraulic_fracturing.pdf2http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/29/3664098/larry-hogan-maryland-fracking-ban/

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Comment From: Michael Motta

3/22/18 @ 10:20 AM

Ban fracking!

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Comment From: Theresa Meyers

3/22/18 @ 10:12 AM

I am against fracking anywhere on our planet. The damage that this does to the land, the energy needed to get to the product they are trying to extract and the pollution that is done to the air, water and land that is left for hundreds of years for o...↓

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Comment From: Karen Kubesh-WhiteEagle

3/22/18 @ 10:12 AM

Americans no longer want reliance on dirty fossil fuels-in any capacity, there is no excuse with technological advancements everyone should have clean water, fracking pollutes and wastes our water, there are renewable remedies to our consumer-demands...↓

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Comment From: Emily van Alyne

3/22/18 @ 10:11 AM

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Comment From: Pamela Haines`

3/22/18 @ 10:10 AM

The Delaware River provides drinking water to 5% of the US population. I care about my watershed and care about the future for my grandchildren. Please keep the long view in mind and help preserve our ecosystems so that they can provide for our nee...↓

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Comment From: Theresa Rodriguez

3/22/18 @ 10:03 AM

Please stop pollution for profit. Save people and the planet.

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Comment From: Jeanette Hirt

3/22/18 @ 9:54 AM

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Comment From: Jill McManus

3/22/18 @ 9:50 AM

Because of its huge use of drinking water drawn from fresh sources, and the eventual degradation and toxifying effects of "produced water" full of chemicals, fracking should be banned throughout the Delaware Basin. There should be no use of water tra...↓

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Comment From: Margaret Egan

3/22/18 @ 9:50 AM

Please ban all fracking from the Delaware Water Basin. Your doing so will perhaps serve as a model for all other areas in which fracking is an imminent danger. Water is life for all. Thank you

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Comment From: Bonnie Burke

3/22/18 @ 9:43 AM

Many communities are struggling against pollution, fossil fuel extraction, and more threats to their water sources. Recently, the Delaware River Basin Commission proposed regulations banning fracking in the River Basin. Unfortunately, those regulatio...↓

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Comment From: Evan Ravitz

3/22/18 @ 9:43 AM

Rolling Stones new article is pretty definitive: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/fracking-health-risk-asthma-birth-defects-cancer-w5178" "Our examination...uncovered no evidence that fracking can be practiced in a manner that does not t...↓

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Comment From: Charlotte Bolinger

3/22/18 @ 9:41 AM

Hydraulic fracturing pollutes our world in at least two ways: The product it produces creates global warming and the way in which it is accessed pollutes our water and our soil.

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Comment From: Deborah Dewey

3/22/18 @ 9:40 AM

It's great you are proposing a fracking like in NYS. Please strengthen it by including the exclusion of importing or exporting fracing wastewater.

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Comment From: Barbara Wood

3/22/18 @ 9:39 AM

Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments Please use this form to submit comments to the DRBC on the revised draft regulations addressing: Special Regulations Part 440 - Hydraulic Fracturing in ...↓

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Comment From: Tedd Ward Jr.

3/22/18 @ 9:35 AM

Please remove the provisions that allow for exportation of water from the basin to fracking and the provision that allows wastewater from fracking into the basin for treatment. To allow these practices is an invitation for disaster.

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Comment From: Mary Moss

3/22/18 @ 9:31 AM

Dear Commissioners, I want NO fracking at all! NO TO waste processing! NO TO water extraction! NO to ALL OF IT! Mary Beth Moss

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Comment From: Katherine Martinez

3/22/18 @ 9:25 AM

Please ban fracking in the Delaware River Basin. Fracking is very bad for the environment where it occurs and can also lead to geomorphologic instability. Furthermore, pollutants from fracking would carry downstream into the Delaware Bay where it wou...↓

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Comment From: MARIKA LOVE

3/22/18 @ 9:23 AM

It's insane to be fracking when it destroys so many billions of gallons of water that can never be used for human consumption. Let's find a way to use solar and wind energy, totally renewable resources, and stop destroying water and creating earthqu...↓

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Comment From: Amy Walker

3/22/18 @ 9:23 AM

To the Delaware River Basin Commissioners - Thank you for your attention to the Delaware River Basin, and to the quality of our drinking water. I'm writing to urge you to ban fracking wastewater and produced water importation, transportation, sto...↓rage, processing, and discharge in the Delaware River Basin. Please take seriously the findings of the EPA's study of fracking's impacts on drinking water resources. In essence, industry control over data and information meant that after years of study, EPA was still unable to determine how often fracking and related activities lead to water contamination, and what that contamination looks like. The agency was only able to verify that contamination is happening. It's striking that of the "over 36,000" reported spills from the oil and gas industry from January 2006 through April 2012, almost all the spills occurred beyond well sites. Of course many were oil spills from pipelines, but I was shocked to learn that spills from transporting wastes were not included in the analysis. Wastes from well sites where fracking is not banned will continue to threaten the Delaware River Basin. Look no farther than the Susquehanna River Basin, where wastes are being sent to at least 15 different facilities. The EPA's takeaway? The "data necessary to detect changes in surface water or groundwater due to hydraulic fracturing activities do not currently exist for the Susquehanna River Basin." Meanwhile, we know that waste treatment facilities have contaminated stream beds with effluent. The EPA study summarizes that fracking wastewater consists of varied mixes of the ancient brines brought to the surface with shale gas, together with the fracking chemicals used, and the by-products of chemical reactions during the process. So, in varied amounts, the waste includes highly harmful chemicals such as BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes) as well as radioactive material (including Radium-226). Bringing these wastes into the basin will never be consistent with the DRBC's comprehensive plan, and ought to be likewise banned. Jeopardizing water quality by allowing wastewater to be imported, stored, transported, processed, or discharged in the basin makes no sense. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Please feel free to take this additional information into account as you write your comments. We highly encourage personalizing comments as much as possible. Thank you!! — In December 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a 7-year study of the impacts of hydraulic fracturing and related activities, especially waste disposal, on drinking water resources. The report found that contamination from fracking and related activities is happening on a regular basis, and industry has succeeded in keeping the details from public scrutiny. The findings support the DRBC's proposed ban on fracking in the basin. The findings also support a ban on treatment and disposal of fracking wastes. — The EPA study summarizes that fracking wastewater consists of varied mixes of the ancient brines brought to the surface with shale gas, together with the fracking chemicals used, and the by-products of chemical reactions during the process. So, in varied amounts, the waste includes highly harmful chemicals such as BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes) as well as radioactive material (including Radium-226). Bringing these wastes into the basin will never be consistent with the DRBC's comprehensive plan. — Not all spills and releases of oil, or fracking chemicals and wastes, are reported to authorities, but the EPA's study found "over 36,000" reported spills from the oil and gas industry from January 2006 through April 2012. That amounts to over 15 spills per day in the United States. For about a third of these spills —about 12,000 — EPA had insufficient information to determine anything about them. Spills from transporting wastes, and toxic chemicals in effluent from treatment facilities, were not included in the analysis. ----------- 1. EPA's final study from December 2016: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/hfstudy/recordisplay.cfm?deid=332990 Excerpts: "The available data and information allowed us to qualitatively describe factors that affect the frequency or severity of impacts at the local level. However, significant data gaps and uncertainties in the available data prevented us from calculating or estimating the national frequency of impacts on drinking water resources from activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle. The data gaps and uncertainties described in this report also precluded a full characterization of the severity of impacts." [page ES-5] "Because of the significant data gaps and uncertainties in the available data, it was not possible to fully characterize the severity of impacts, nor was it possible to calculate or estimate the national frequency of impacts on drinking water resources from activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle." [page ES-46] "The EPA used data gathered from state and industry sources to characterize hydraulic fracturing-related spills between January 2006 and April 2012 (2015m) (see Text Box 5-10 for additional information). In this study, the sources had data on over 36,000 spills. Of these spills, the EPA identified 457 spills that occurred on or near the well pad and definitively related to hydraulic fracturing." [page 5-41] "Water soluble forms of [radioactive material] are present in most produced water from unconventional reservoirs, but particularly so in Marcellus Shale produced water." [page 7-20] "...impacts on drinking water resources have included increased suspended solids and chloride concentrations downstream of discharging facilities that were accepting hydraulic fracturing wastewater and elevated bromide concentrations and radium concentrations in [Centralized Waste Treatment] CWT effluent." [page 8-33] "...spills and leaks can occur in pits or impoundments associated with the storage of treated wastewater at CWTs." [page 8-33] "Wastewater being transported by truck or pipeline to and from a CWT can also present a vulnerability for spills or leaks." [page 8-33] "a given stream or waterbody may have a number of CWTs upstream, potentially contributing to combined impacts on surface water if there are spills or inadequately treated discharges. Note that the upstream catchment areas are large for the major rivers. Therefore, some rivers, such as the Ohio or Susquehanna, have as many as 15 or 16 upstream CWTs, although most are located far away." [page 8-33] Referencing a USGS study, EPA concluded "data necessary to detect changes in surface water or groundwater due to hydraulic fracturing activities do not currently exist for the Susquehanna River Basin." [page 8-75] 2. EPA analysis of oil and gas industry spills: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-05/documents/hf_spills_report_final_5-12-15_508_km_sb.pdf 3. November 30, 2016, Marketplace and APM Reports publish news that last minute changes to draft fracking study in 2015 explain the unsupported and controversial line that would, days later, be dropped for the final study: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2016/11/30/epa-changes-fracking-study See this Food & Water Watch timeline on the EPA fracking study for more: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/timeline-epas-fracking-study Also, this letter re the controversial and ultimately reversed top line of the draft study: https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/sites/default/files/september_27_group_letter_to_epa.pdf 4. CWT and Pennsylvania's river basins

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Comment From: helen mcallister

3/22/18 @ 9:18 AM

I am absolutely opposed to any fracking, pipeline projects that have any impact at all on the water or land or air around US citizens. No more fracking!

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Comment From: Taylor Sinkiewicz

3/22/18 @ 9:16 AM

Fracking needs to be banned completely in the Delaware River Basin. PERIOD, THE END. It makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE- to ban fracking in the basin yet allow toxic waste water to be dumped as well as take water from basin to use for fracked gas projects....↓

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Comment From: LARA LORENZ

3/22/18 @ 9:13 AM

In response to scientific threats to water sources, I urge you to to enforce ALL fracking be banned from the Basin.

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Comment From: David Solon

3/22/18 @ 9:11 AM

Please, PLEASE do not open up the Delaware basin to hydraulic fracturing. Clean water is essential for a healthy life and Fracking pollutes in so many different ways. Please DO NOT ALLOW FRACKING - it's a matter of life or death for us all. Tha...↓

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Comment From: Rebekah Driessen Patrick

3/22/18 @ 9:08 AM

Please ban ALL fracking in the Delaware Basin. Fracking is dangerous and harms our water, a precious resource we need to protect rather than pollute.

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Comment From: susan gateley

3/22/18 @ 9:06 AM

Fracking and the land clearing, pipe lines, industrial and toxic materials associated with fracking bring short term prosperity and very very long term devastation and cost. This destructive works to further erode the social fabric already weakened...↓

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Comment From: Sena Havasy

3/22/18 @ 9:06 AM

Fracking not only uses enormous amounts of water to pump into the earth and out again, but can't help but adversely affect the water table, in extreme cases cause peoples well water to become undrinkable and even causing fire to come out of the taps...↓

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Comment From: Dan Papa

3/22/18 @ 9:06 AM

We need a complete ban on fracking in the DRBC. For the sake of safe drinking water for millions and for future generations, we need to do this now. The pollution and leaks and waste water associated with fracking have time and time again been shown ...↓

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Comment From: Ann Wasgatt

3/22/18 @ 9:05 AM

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Comment From: Myrissa Pyle

3/22/18 @ 9:05 AM

Clean water is life! Do not crack the Delaware River Basin1

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Comment From: Deborah Colotti

3/22/18 @ 9:04 AM

CLEAN water and CLEAN air are human rights, and very very NECESSARY. Do NOT sell out your communities for some small profit. Who knows... maybe YOUR grandchildren will want CLEAN AIR AND CLEAN WATER TOO! PROTECT our common futures!!

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Comment From: Mar Scarcello

3/22/18 @ 9:02 AM

Fracking will destroy our water wells and impact the ground. It is most dangerous to our environment.

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Comment From: Kathryn Nelson

3/22/18 @ 9:01 AM

Under no conditions should people be deprived of clean water. Stop the fracking!

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Comment From: Roy and Dolly Sutherland

3/22/18 @ 9:01 AM

The Earth is a Water planet. Life needs Water to exist. The planet is running out of potable water, or in some places all water. WE NEED TO SAVE THE WATER. We DO NOT need to frack or drain the water basins. We DO NOT need to bottle the water there is...↓

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Comment From: Elizabeth Soychak

3/22/18 @ 9:00 AM

I urge you to say no to fracking around, dumping frack wastewater in, and withdrawing water from the Delaware for fracking elsewhere. America has the means in wind and solar power to step away from fracked gas and we need to protect our irreplaceabl...↓

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Comment From: Arline Soffian

3/22/18 @ 8:47 AM

We need a full fracking ban on Delaware River Basin. We have a RIGHT to have clean water and a healthy environment. Do not take that away from us, our children, your children. Pay attention to the reality of what can happen.

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