Proposed Draft Regulations Addressing Hydraulic Fracturing and Additional Clarifying Amendments

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:36 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Morrisville, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:35 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Lower Saucon Township, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:32 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Kutztown, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:30 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Highland, NY to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:29 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Easton, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:27 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Bethel, NY to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Network (Matthew McCann)

3/19/18 @ 4:23 AM

Please find attached a resolution from Springfield Township, PA to enact a complete and permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing.

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Comment From: Mike and Trish Baines

3/18/18 @ 4:57 PM

We are mortified that you would even consider the idea of fracking, or using our waterways in any fashion to assist with fracking elsewhere. We think that enough is known of the dangers of fracking, from contamination of water to causing earthquakes...↓

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Comment From: Laura Sancic

3/18/18 @ 7:30 AM

Dear Commission Members, Banning fracking may be the most important thing that you, as individuals, could ever do. I have lived in New Jersey for 21 years - almost all of my life. I am a member of the generation that will deal with the effects ...↓

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Comment From: Roger & Sarah Anderson

3/18/18 @ 6:29 AM

I am a resident of Delaware. I am very concerned about our water source. Delaware lives on the quality of ground water. This is not only for human needs but agricultural needs. Fracking and the byproduct that comes with fracking will damage our wa...↓

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Comment From: Ute Simons

3/18/18 @ 6:25 AM

DRBC PROTECT THE WATERSHED: Absolutely NO discharge of fracking wastewater; No extraction of water for fracking; No fracking activity of any kind in the watershed

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Comment From: Anna Simons

3/18/18 @ 6:20 AM

DRBC PROTECT THE WATERSHED: Absolutely no discharge of fracking wastewater; No extraction of water for fracking; No fracking activity of any kind in the watershed

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Comment From: emma HARDIE

3/18/18 @ 6:03 AM

I DO NOT SUPPORT THE DUMPING OF FRACKING WASTE INTO THE DELAWARE RIVER. I DO NOT SUPPORT FRACKING. I DO NOT SUPPORT POLITICIANS DESTROYING OUR ENVIRONMENT, COUNTRY, MOTHER EARTH, THE AIR I BREATHE, THE WATER I DRINK.

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Comment From: Larry Harris

3/18/18 @ 3:59 AM

To DRBC: I send my comments with sincere concerns regarding the effects of new regulations removing the ban on gas drilling using hydrofracking in the Delaware Rive watershed. As an avid angler and conservationist allowing this activity is a grave th...↓

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Comment From: Maria-Paola Sutto

3/18/18 @ 3:23 AM

March 18. 2018 To: Delaware River Basin Commission dockets.drbc.commentinput.com To Whom It May Concern: We are writing to you because we live in Pond Eddy, New York since 20 years where we have the privilege of a natural beautiful land...↓

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Comment From: Lillian Russell

3/18/18 @ 2:42 AM

I am writing to you to express my opposition to any fracking or ancillary activities in the Delaware River Basin.When I first purchased my home on the beautiful Delaware River in 1983, I signed an agreement with the federal government that I would no...↓

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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

3/18/18 @ 2:19 AM

No to Section 440.5 and to allowing frackwater to be imported into the Delaware River watershed for "treatment." Peer-reviewed studies in western Pennsylvania show that radioactive materials have accumulated over 600x normal, downstream from "treatme...↓

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Comment From: Nancy Lo

3/17/18 @ 5:33 AM

I am opposed to any discharge of fracking wastewater or extraction of water for fracking. We depend on the watershed for our drinking water, and I will hold the lawmakers and politicians responsible at the voting booth.

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Comment From: Rika Aoki-Goldsmith

3/17/18 @ 4:30 AM

I would like DRBC to know that as a concerned citizen and resident of New Jersey, I am opposed to the draft regulations that would allow the toxic wastewater produced by fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed...↓

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Comment From: Jeanne Schwarz

3/16/18 @ 9:25 AM

I write to urge the continued ban of gas fracking of Marcellus and Utica shales, and beyond that, that no waste water from fracking outside the Delaware River Basin be brought here, and that no water from the DRWB be exported for fracking elsewhere. ...↓

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Comment From: Lin Bastan

3/16/18 @ 8:57 AM

TO THE DRBC PLEASE!!! PROTECT THE WATERSHED: I am not in favor of your proposed change to allow wastewater from fracking into our drinking water!!! PLEASE No discharge of fracking wastewater; No extraction of water for fracking; No fracking activity ...↓

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Comment From: deborah cudworth

3/16/18 @ 8:10 AM

The Delaware River provides drinking water to millions. There must be MORE protections, not exemptions for frackers. Enact a permanent and total ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin.

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Comment From: Allan Rubin

3/16/18 @ 4:48 AM

DRBC COMMENT 3-16-2018 Dear Members of the Delaware River Basin Commission Throughout the years since 2008 I became more and more aware of the risks associated with fracking. When the Commission instituted the original moratorium I was im...↓pressed with your sense of responsibility and willingness to embrace caution in the face of so much pressure to follow business as usual. You did not err on that side. You chose the correct path and I and millions of citizens are in your debt. It is time now to remain committed to that proper course and close off any detours down perilous routes. You are undoubtably overwhelmed with expert testimony about those dangers and concerns. Perhaps you have received fewer comments about the benefits of not permitting fracking. Let me say what not permitting fracking meant to me. My town government of Cochecton, NY was not open to our pleas to institute a local moratorium on fracking. Even after we gathered six hundred signatures, out of two thousand residents, on a petition requesting a moratorium, the town board ignored our demand in favor of the interests of a few large land owners who were eager to make a quick windfall, regardless of the health of the community. We ran two pro-moratorium candidates for the board but were only able to elect one, maintaining a fracking biased board. At that point I was paralyzed with fear of fracking. I was at the point of considering my option to sell my home and property and remove myself from what I had learned would be a toxic environment if fracking was permitted in my town. Then Governor Cuomo banned fracking in New York State. When I heard the news I shed tears of joy and relief. My home and my health would be safe from assault of poisonous air and water. I renewed suspended renovations on my buildings, providing work for local contractors. Most importantly I leased a rooftop solar panel array to provide all my electric power needs, an investment I would not have risked without the ban. If the DRBC permanently bans fracking and it's waste products from the Basin, please consider the compound economic benefits of numerous families relieved of paralyzing fear and confident enough to invest in the future of their communities. As for water withdrawals, any support for the process of gas extraction at this time simply prolongs the slow demise of a defunct energy source whose persistence delays the full implementation of its replacements, such as wind, solar and geothermal. Please take the final step to eliminate the threat of outmoded natural gas from our lives so we can all breath free in the fresh wind and luxuriate in the warmth and light of the sun.

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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

3/16/18 @ 2:49 AM

We cannot anticipate the total build-out of natural gas in Pennsylvania, but it is sure to be large. Future drilled laterals will be longer and the amount of water per well will more than double, producing huge volumes of frackwater flowback that mus...↓

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Comment From: Vincent Smith

3/15/18 @ 2:55 PM

Please vote to ban fracking 100%

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Comment From: Janine Nichols

3/15/18 @ 12:33 PM

I am heartened that our new Governor is ready to confront the dangers proposed by fracking, more pipelines and other threats to our environment. It is MADNESS to think of fracking the Delaware River, ultimately the source of drinking water for 15 mil...↓

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Comment From: Frances Kerwin

3/15/18 @ 10:29 AM

I resent very much the idea that large corporations want to poison our land and water to enrich themselves. Land and water can not be replaced, once ruined. The Delaware River Basin is a vital component of the ecology of this whole area. No one ow...↓

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Comment From: Charles Wright

3/15/18 @ 7:33 AM

To the Members of the Commission: I urge you to prohibit any dumping of frack wastewater into the Delaware River. Frack wastewater harms us. Frack wastewater has levels of radioactivity hundreds or thousands of times higher than federal drinking...↓

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Comment From: Henry Berkowitz

3/15/18 @ 6:25 AM

Frack water contains radioactive elements. There is a proposal to release frack water into the Allegheny River in Coudersport,Pa. but the company hoping to be permitted to do this will not guarantee that some of the water to be released will not be c...↓

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Comment From: Rudolph Schuster

3/15/18 @ 5:50 AM

Dear Commission, I write to oppose the Commission's proposal that effectively bans natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin region. Our nation's public policies---at all levels of government---must be based on evidence, science, and...↓

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Comment From: william haegele

3/15/18 @ 4:47 AM

PLEASE don't allow fracking anywhere near the Delaware river. It is sacred to the local indian tribes, and essential to quality of life in the Delaware river basin. It's been proven over and over and over that fracking causes harm. Don't you have ...↓

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Comment From: tom harris

3/15/18 @ 4:18 AM

Fracking is wrong. It destroys the environment and is not the way of the future.

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Comment From: George Demby

3/15/18 @ 3:45 AM

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

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Comment From: Cecilia Korman

3/15/18 @ 3:17 AM

I implore the DRBC NOT to allow any fracking activity of any kind in our basin. Do NOT discharge fracking wastewater into our basin or extract water for fracking from our basin. We must maintain clean and safe drinking waster for our children and g...↓

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Comment From: Jenny Petersen

3/15/18 @ 2:50 AM

I am opposed to hydraulic fracturing in my area or any other area.

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Comment From: roy Morsch

3/14/18 @ 12:29 PM

The entire process of fracking is dangerous to our environment and only benefits a handful of landowners for short term profit at the risk of polluting not only their own ground water, but that of their neighbors. And it benefits an industry that li...↓

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Comment From: Joann Puskarcik

3/14/18 @ 12:22 PM

I completely support the revised rules prohibiting high volume hydraulic fracking in the Delaware River Basin. However, I oppose allowing fracking wastewater to be stored, processed or discharge in the Delaware River watershed, and I oppose water f...↓

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Comment From: Charles Brunner

3/14/18 @ 10:55 AM

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Comment From: Bonita Hay

3/14/18 @ 9:16 AM

Clean water is a right of all residents of the commonwealth of PA. Here in SE PA we depend on our surface waters for our drinking water. In fact 15 million plus folks living in the Delaware RIver basin depend on waters within this watershed area for ...↓

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Comment From: Dustin Flannery

3/14/18 @ 7:43 AM

PROTECT THE WATERSHED: No discharge of fracking wastewater

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Comment From: Timothy Pokorny

3/14/18 @ 6:47 AM

The Delaware River Basin Commission has proposed prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the watershed and strictly regulating other water-related fracking activities. The Commission is taking this step because it has concluded after years of study that ...↓

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Comment From: Delaware Riverkeeper Netowrk Delaware Riverkeeper Netowrk

3/14/18 @ 5:36 AM

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Comment From: Bryce Yeager

3/14/18 @ 2:33 AM

I am deeply concerned with the commissions move to ban hydraulic fracturing activities within the watershed based solely on political pressure and not based on scientific fact. I am sure the lobbying efforts of non-development groups has been overwhe...↓

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Comment From: Andrew Wadsworth

3/13/18 @ 10:43 AM

We need a complete ban on all natural gas drilling. No way to proposed regulation 440.5 and 440.4! We need clean water and clean air. We need to stop destroying our vital and necessary natural resources. Stop allowing industry to ruining and poll...↓

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Comment From: Charles Brunner

3/13/18 @ 10:35 AM

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Comment From: Edward G. Maher, Jr.

3/13/18 @ 9:58 AM

Members of the Delaware River Basin Commission: I am a property owner in Damascus Township, Wayne County, PA located immediately alongside the Main Stem of the Delaware River and immediately downhill from the now-dormant so-called Woodland Propertie...↓s gas drilling site. I provided you with my initial comments years ago, stating my objections to any and all forms of gas drilling or hydraulic fracturing anywhere within the boundaries of the Delaware River Basin or in any location contiguous to or in the proximate vicinity of any waters or tributaries of the Delaware River that might threaten the water volume or the water quality of the Delaware River and its feeder creeks and tributaries. In keeping with those remarks and with respect to the amended regulations now pending before you, I strongly object to any amendment that would permit the removal of water from the Delaware River or any of the water bodies in its watershed for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing or gas drilling. The watershed system has for years maintained a delicate balance of natural water flow and supervised flow management during the full range of water volume conditions - from floods to drought - that ought not be threatened or stressed by the unnecessary removal of any natural source of water supply in the Delaware River watershed that feeds and sustains the Delaware River, its aquatic marine abundance and its wonderful fishery. Likewise, I strongly object to the trucking-in, delivery, discharge, storage or treatment of waste water and waste by-products into any area within the Delaware River Basin from hydraulic fracturing or gas drilling operations taking place outside of the boundaries of the Delaware River Basin. The water treatment facilities available have been demonstrated to be incapable of thoroughly or even adequately - no less safely - treating such effluents effectively. Aside from the nasty, acrid odors they emit diminishing localized air quality, any storage areas, evaporation pits and other sorts of disposal processes in use at this time increase the threat of contamination to groundwater and exacerbate the danger of overflow, runoff or accidental discharge into water bodies and tributaries that feed into the Delaware River and which could possibly effect the water quality of the region's aquifer water supply by seepage over time, threatening citizens' health and safety. The waste water and chemical waste by-products from hydraulic fracturing operations have no place within the protective boundaries of the Delaware River Basin. The Commission is charged with the responsibility to manage and protect the Delaware River. Gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing - together with their water demand requirements and waste disposal needs - have no place within the boundaries of the Delaware River Basin or the watershed that are integral to the river system. As a citizen, a taxpayer and a vested property owner who cares for the Delaware River deeply, I strongly object to the proposed amendments to the regulations within the boundaries of the Delaware River Basin and its protected watershed. I urge you to carry out your charge to protect and care for the Delaware River with caution and due deliberation for its continued beauty and wellbeing. Please reject any form of amendment to existing regulations that would permit taking any water out of the watershed or permit the discharge, storage or treatment of hydraulic fracturing waste water and accompanying chemical waste products within the boundaries of the Delaware River Basin and its protected watershed.

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Comment From: Anne Foster

3/13/18 @ 9:13 AM

I am very concerned that the change in regulations will allow fracking water to be released into the streams. I am concerned that unknown chemicals will both affect wildlife who use and live in the water and everyone downstream who uses it for their ...↓

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Comment From: Anne Foster

3/13/18 @ 9:13 AM

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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

3/13/18 @ 8:58 AM

We need more protection from the DRBC, not less. The natural gas drilling industry has already received extraordinary federal exemptions from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act. This must stop! Thank you for your attentio...↓

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Comment From: Andree Larsen

3/13/18 @ 7:36 AM

Do not allow any fracking waste water into the DRB. Do not allow fracking companies to use water from the DRB. I lived in Lambertville NJ for 15 years & remember how polluted the Delaware River once was. We started a SHAD FEST there to celebrate the ...↓

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Comment From: DELCORA (Ian Piro)

3/13/18 @ 7:05 AM

On November 17, 2017, the Delaware River Basin Commission (the "DRBC") published its "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Public Hearing: Proposed Amendments to the Administrative Manual and Special Regulations Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Activities...↓; Additional Clarifying Amendments," seeking public comment on the proposed revisions to the longstanding existing regulations. The Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority ("DELCORA") has reviewed the proposed regulations, and offers the following comments with respect to the proposed addition of 18 C.F.R. �401.35(b)(18), which relates to the newly defined terms "produced water" and "CWT wastewater," as defined in 18 C.F.R. �440.2. I. BACKGROUND ON DELCORA AND ITS OPERATIONS In the late 1960's, Delaware County recognized the need for a regional wastewater management plan. From that need, DELCORA, a regional wastewater management authority was created on October 20th, 1971 and tasked with providing environmentally sound and cost-effective wastewater treatment services to the citizens and businesses of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Since its inception, DELCORA has been instrumental in improving the water quality of the County and the Delaware River Estuary. Today, the authority owns, operates and maintains collection systems and reclamation facilities that serve approximately a half million people in the Greater Philadelphia area including 42 municipalities in Delaware and Chester Counties. II. DELCORA'S JUNE 2016 DOCKET DELCORA owns and operates the Western Regional Treatment Plant (WRTP), which provides wastewater collection and treatment in the western portion of DELCORA's regional service area in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Located in Chester and discharging to the Delaware River Estuary, WRTP has a permitted effluent discharge capacity of 44 million gallons per day (mgd) before completion of a plant expansion and 50 mgd after the completion of plant expansion in accordance with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit (No. PA0027103 A-2). DELCORA filed an Application to the DRBC on July 28, 2015 for a renewal of Docket NO. D-1992-018 CP-3. In response the DRBC issued a docket for the facility on June 15, 2016 renewing its approval of both the existing and proposed outfall. Most importantly, in connection with the issuance of its docket the DRBC reiterated the extensive effluent limitations imposed by the DEP in Effluent Table A-1, noting the additional DRBC-imposed parameters at Table A-2. Tables A-3 and A-4 pertain to the same effluents, but address the discharges once the outfall rate increases to 50 mgd. Of particular importance, the DRBC noted the CBOD5 and TDS levels relating to Outfall No. 001 in the aforementioned Table A-1 and A-3. The DRBC specifically notes that these levels are set by the DEP, and the DRBC's additional sampling protocols are further set forth at Section C.II.x of the docket. There is no indication therein of any need to reduce any such effluents, though monitoring is required. The DRBC next addresses the CBOD5 and TDS issue in its letter to Raymond A. Ferra, Ph.D., dated January 17, 2018. In this letter the DRBC notes that there is some increase in CBOD5 and TDS levels from 2012 through 2017, which it potentially attributes to the receipt and processing of leachate, requesting certain additional analytical data, but not indicating any exceedance of permit levels. In essence, the DRBC requested certain updates regarding DELCORA's continued ability to meet its water quality regulations, as well as a characterization of any such leachate. In short, the DRBC was not constrained in its ability to review the WRTP's in-take of leachate, and the impacts that leachate treatment could conceivably have upon effluent water quality. Moreover the DRBC also makes it plain that with respect to wastewater imported into the Delaware River Basin (the "DRB"), Section 2.30 of the Water Code, DELCORA must take specific steps to remove all of the CBOD20 (with respect to in-basin wastewater the removal is 89.5%). This is another example of the DRBC's robust existing ability to monitor and regulate in- and out-of-basin industrial wastewater, notwithstanding how it was created in the first place. In short, the DRBC made it clear that DELCORA is to identify industrial wastewater that is derived from leachate, and further demonstrated that once such a wastewater stream is identified, the DRBC has the existing regulatory tools needed to analyze any impact that leachate could have upon water quality in the DRB. III. THE DRBC's NEW PROPOSED CWT REQUIREMENTS FOR DOCKETING The DRBC's proposed addition to 18 C.F.R. �401.35(b)(18) appears to confuse rather than clarify the application of the DRBC's water quality criteria to leachate. The imposition of the concept of the Centralized Waste Treatment Facility could be interpreted to address the receipt of leachate at a facility such as the WRTP. The WRTP itself could be considered a CWT facility under the new regulations, given the new definition at 18 C.F.R. �440.2. That is DELCORA would treat non-hazardous industrial wastewater for discharge into the DRB. Thus, the discharge of the treated wastewater would constitute "CWT wastewater" (defined in the same section), which in turn triggers docketing at �401.35(b)(18), unless otherwise exempted under 401.35(a). However, the DRBC appears to already possess robust authority in this area as reflected in the issuance of docket D-1992-018 CP-3, as discussed above. The DRBC should clarify the intent of this provision. Given that the definition of CWT Facility is embedded in the new proposed regulations governing hydro fracturing activities, it may be the DRBC's intent to capture treated or partially treated "frack" water, and regulate its discharge into the DRB. If that is the intent, then the leachate or other industrial wastewater received at the WRTP could be captured within this provision. As discussed above, the DRBC already possesses extensive regulatory authority to track, treat and discharge leachate, regardless of its point of origin. This is clearly reflected in the existing regulations at �401.35(b)(8), which regulates Facilities that create a direct discharge to surface or ground waters of industrial wastewater. In essence, it would appear that any discharge from a CWT Facility could also constitute the discharge of industrial wastewater. While the DRBC may have some question as to whether frack water would otherwise be considered an industrial wastewater, the DRBC has traditionally processed dockets for the discharge of treated leachate as a discharge of industrial wastewater under 401.35(b)(8). In Pennsylvania, leachate would constitute an "industrial waste" as that term is defined at 25 Pa. Code �92a.2 (emphasis added): Industrial waste (i) A liquid, gaseous, radioactive, solid or other substance, not sewage, resulting from manufacturing or industry, or from an establishment, and mine drainage, refuse, silt, coal mine solids, rock, debris, dirt and clay from coal mines, coal collieries, breakers or other coal processing operations. (ii) The term includes all of these substances whether or not generally characterized as waste. In New Jersey, leachate constitutes a "Process wastewater," which by its own terms includes industrial wastewater at N.J.A.C. �7:15-1.5: 'Process wastewater' means any water that, during manufacturing or processing, comes into direct contact with or results from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, finished product, byproduct, or waste product. Process wastewater includes, but is not limited to, leachate and cooling water other than non-contact cooling water. This definition includes the terms commercial wastewater and industrial wastewater as used in 40 CFR Part 503. Thus in the states throughout the DRB, the concept of leachate as an industrial wastewater is thoroughly embedded. Therefore, the existing DRBC regulation calling for the docketing of industrial waste discharges is sufficient to include landfill leachate, and the DRBC should modify the text of the proposed regulation at �401.35(b)(18) to exclude industrial wastewater discharges otherwise within the jurisdiction of existing �401.35(b)(8). In short, if CWT wastewater is meant to include leachate then there is a potential conflict between these two provisions that could create confusion with respect to the appropriate provisions under which a docket should be filed, and the potential consequence that a docket could be approved but subject to an appeal based upon the provision under which the approval was rendered. In addition, the DRBC has proposed a revised provision concerning leachate treatment and solid waste disposal facilities at �401.35(b)(14). The DRBC proposes changes to the existing language found at �401.35(b)(15), which originally related to landfill and solid waste facilities that could impact the DRB's water quality. The new provision can be read to apply to any leachate treatment project located within the DRB and associated with a landfill or solid waste disposal facility located within the DRB, or potentially as a leachate treatment facility located within the DRB that treats leachate from any landfill, whether within the DRB or not. The specific concern is that "leachate treatment projects" is not a defined term. It could apply only to wastewater treatment plants (or the like) associated with in-basin landfills, which is a relatively discrete focus. However, it could also apply to any initiative at any in-basin wastewater treatment facility that proposes to treat leachate. If the latter is the intent, DELCORA would again point out that this raises overlap with the CWT wastewater definition, as well as that of "industrial wastewater." In short, there could be three separately applicable bases for a docket filing for DELCORA in the event it is seeking approval for a new leachate stream. If the DRBC's intent is that this provision governs facilities constructed within the DRB for treatment of leachate generated at the landfill to which the facility is related, then this is a logical revision of the former provision (though a definition of "Leachate treatment and disposal project" would provide greater clarity). If the DRBC's intent is that this provision captures off-site facilities seeking to treat leachate, such as the WRTP then DELCORA would ask that the DRBC clarify the jurisdictional lines to avoid overlap with the definition of "industrial wastewater" and/or "CWT wastewater." For example, the DRBC could modify the proposed definition of CWT wastewater as follows: CWT wastewater For purposes of this part, "CWT wastewater" means any wastewater or effluent resulting from the treatment of produced water by a CWT, but shall not include "leachate," as such term is defined at 40 C.F.R. �258.2. In that manner, the new regulations will continue to process and docket leachate treatment proposals that exceed the threshold quantities set forth in 18 C.F.R. �401.35(a) as an "industrial wastewater." The proposed language at �401.35(b)(14) could be modified to state: Leachate treatment and disposal projects associated with, and primarily servicing in-basin landfills and solid waste disposal facilities. This modification makes it clear that the section pertains to leachate treatment systems at landfills, but would not capture a facility like the WRTP which does not primarily service disposal facilities. Conclusion: DELCORA respectfully requests that the DRBC clarify its intent with respect to above-cited provisions referencing leachate, process water and CWT wastewater. DELCORA is prepared to respond to any questions the DRBC may have, and kindly contact the undersigned with any issues the DRBC may wish to discuss. Sincerely, Ian A. Piro Environmental Compliance Manager DELCORA 100 East 5th Street Chester, PA 19016-0999 Office: 610.876.5523, ext 288 Cell: 610.633.2469

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Comment From: Lois Oleksa

3/13/18 @ 6:05 AM

I live in Durham Township where the Exceptional Value stream, Cooks Creek, enters the Delaware River. Please allow me to state a reason that the Delaware River Basin Commission should ban fracking in this basin along with the withdrawal of water or...↓

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Comment From: John Marshall

3/13/18 @ 5:53 AM

I respectfully am asking for a permanent ban on fracking and all related fracking activies in the DRB. My sister has a house in the basin and I like to visit and I would like it to stay just the way it is now. Thank you

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Comment From: david Levin

3/13/18 @ 4:04 AM

protect forests and parks from polluting destructive drilling, logging, environmental destruction

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Comment From: New Jersey Sustainable Busines... (Richard Lawton)

3/13/18 @ 4:04 AM

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Comment From: Gail Brunner

3/13/18 @ 3:25 AM

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Comment From: David Wasilewski

3/13/18 @ 2:11 AM

It's bad enough that Pennsylvania has allowed an unsafe industry to overrun virtually the entire state with practices that seriously compromise both the integrity of our environment as well as the health of our citizens. With the single exception of ...↓

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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

3/12/18 @ 12:32 PM

We should look to our state constitution, which says in Article I § 27 that we are have a right to clean air and water. That really wraps up the matter. That provision is inconsistent with the discharge of numerous fracking chemicals into our water. ...↓

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Comment From: Denise Bala

3/12/18 @ 11:19 AM

Please do not jeopardize our health by selling out to fracking companies.

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Comment From: Craig Thomas

3/12/18 @ 10:17 AM

The Delaware River Basin Commission has proposed new regulations that will allow disposal of fracking wastewater in the Delaware River watershed, the source of drinking water for over 15 million people. The proposed regs will also allow fracking comp...↓

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Comment From: Fred Kornblith

3/12/18 @ 9:01 AM

do not put fracked water in the Delaware and take fresh water out .I don't want to drink poisoned water.

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Comment From: Patricia Bentz

3/12/18 @ 8:53 AM

Regarding the proposed draft regulations for dumping fracking waste water in the Delaware River Basin. Why is this even being proposed? It is irresponsible to dispose of this material in the drinking water that used used by millions of people an...↓

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Comment From: Candace Roberts

3/12/18 @ 8:21 AM

I am absolutely opposed to allowing disposal of fracking wastewater in the Delaware River watershed. This cannot possibly be safe and will negatively impact millions of people. Fracking companies can attend to their business and dispose of their wast...↓

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Comment From: Buckingham Township (Lori Wicen)

3/12/18 @ 8:08 AM

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Comment From: alexander alperstein

3/12/18 @ 7:32 AM

Dear Commission, I am writing today to voice my strong opposition to the Delaware River Basin Commission's (DRBC's) proposed rules to severely restrict---and therefore effectively ban---hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and horizontal drilling wi...↓

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Comment From: craig miller

3/12/18 @ 7:28 AM

100% against allowing allowing disposal of fracking wastewater in the Delaware River watershed

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Comment From: Theresa Weniger

3/12/18 @ 7:17 AM

I have lived in either Honesdale or Beach Lake since 1980 and recently retired from Wayne Memorial Hospital after 37 years as a lab tech. I strongly support a ban on any natural gas development / fracking in the Delaware River Watershed.

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Comment From: Delena Parsons

3/12/18 @ 7:12 AM

I respectfully object to any fracking wastewater being introduced into the Delaware river watershed. I live in Philadelphia and we depend on that water source. Please do not put profits over people!!!

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Comment From: Stephen Schatz

3/12/18 @ 7:01 AM

I heartily endorse safe hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River watershed in order to extract highly needed, clean burning natural gas. Adequate protections should involve adequate cleaning and disposal of wastewater to prevent contamination of r...↓

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Comment From: Guillermo Narvaez

3/12/18 @ 5:57 AM

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Comment From: Guillermo Narvaez

3/12/18 @ 5:55 AM

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Comment From: Guillermo Narvaez

3/12/18 @ 5:50 AM

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Comment From: Guillermo Narvaez

3/12/18 @ 5:47 AM

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Comment From: John Azzone

3/12/18 @ 5:19 AM

The special regulations are not complete without these additional items!

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Comment From: Paul Howes

3/12/18 @ 4:52 AM

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Comment From: Paul Howes

3/12/18 @ 4:50 AM

Dear Commission, I write as a member of America's energy industry to say that I strongly oppose the DRBC's proposed rule to severely limit and thereby effectively ban hydraulic fracturing within your jurisdiction. Our industry serves the natio...↓

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Comment From: Steven Meyer

3/12/18 @ 4:28 AM

Hello I am an avid fly fisherman who spends a lot of time on the Delaware river every year. I live in central NY but often drive down to the West and East branch of the Delaware. I applaud your work in stopping the hydro fracturing in the region aro...↓

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Comment From: Tim Pellenbarg

3/12/18 @ 3:07 AM

Hello, I support any legislation which intelligently regulates hydraulic fracturing in non-sensitive watersheds, and limits or prohibits hydraulic fracturing in sensitive watersheds. Best regards, Tim Pellenbarg

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Comment From: Anneke Walsh

3/12/18 @ 1:37 AM

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Comment From: Janet Fishman

3/11/18 @ 3:20 PM

I am writing to support the continuation of the moratorium against fracking in the Delaware River Basin. This method of drilling produces toxic wastewater with high levels of radioactivity. It is harmful to the health of people in four states w...↓

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Comment From: Charles Brunner

3/11/18 @ 2:55 PM

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Comment From: Carol Parowski

3/11/18 @ 2:19 PM

The amount of fresh water used for fracking is a threat on it's own to our fresh drinking water, but the amount of fracked waste water that can affect our health is an even larger problem. In addition to the chemicals that are proved injurious to our...↓

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Comment From: Cecil Houser

3/11/18 @ 2:14 PM

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Comment From: David Bly

3/11/18 @ 8:18 AM

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...↓

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Comment From: Thomas Yatsonsky

3/11/18 @ 8:00 AM

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Comment From: Louise Washer

3/11/18 @ 6:55 AM

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Comment From: Erica Evans

3/11/18 @ 5:58 AM

Hi there, I am a resident of Buckingham, PA. While am in agreement on the prohibition of fracking in the Delaware River Basin I urge the commission to reconsider the provisions that allow the fracking wastewater to be discharged in our watershed and...↓ that allow water to be removed from our watershed for use in fracking elsewhere. While there is ample information out there about the disastrous environmental effects of fracking wastewater and depletion of water resources, a little talked about fact is how these fracking related activities impact the local communities. Last summer I spent time in the Barnesville, Ohio area where the fracking industry is rampant. Quiet, bucolic towns (like our beautiful Bucks County) now deal with awful traffic coming through these tiny towns on two lane roads. These roadways are deteriorating very quickly, not meant for such industrial usage - similar to own our roadways and infrastructure in these parts of Pennsylvania. These trucks are hauling everything related to the fracking industry including wastewater. A few years back some of the fracking companies trying to draw water for use in fracking nearly dried up Ohioans drinking water in Barnesville. When the town cut them off, the fracking company sued the town for breach of contract. The Delaware River is the backup source of water for South Jersey residents who get their water through NJ American Water. They are currently already depleting their first source of water in their area. What happens when these fracking companies deplete the backup source of clean drinking water for a huge population like those in the Greater Philadelphia/New Jersey area? It is absolutely possible. https://thinkprogress.org/a-600-million-fracking-company-just-sued-this-tiny-ohio-town-for-its-water-3a776651f59f/ and http://www.barnesville-enterprise.com/news/20160817/local-impacts-of-fracking-discussed A friend of mine who lives in Barnesville, Ohio told me that when the fracking companies were coming in, the companies themselves told local police departments to hire more officers as the people the fracking companies bring in to work are rowdy and prone to causing disturbances. They're not even hiring anyone local. Lots of people buy homes and choose to live in our area of Bucks County because of the quiet nature, peaceful settings, and clean environment. Allowing fracking wastewater to be discharged into our watershed and water to be drawn from our watershed which millions of people depend on is not only negligent but fails to see the detrimental effects on the community of taxpayers and people who have chosen to live in Bucks county. Do we want raucous out of town truckers disturbing the peace, trucks full of toxic wastewater careening down the roads our families ride bikes on, causing more roadway deterioration, traffic, and pollution? I would be very unhappy were this to be our home's new reality, and would consider leaving. I don't think so. As if the dangerous environmental effects of all activities related to the fracking industry aren't enough, endangering drinking water for millions of people, and disturbing the peace, damaging the roadways is more than enough to say NO to fracking and ALL its related activities in the Delaware River watershed. Thank you, Erica Evans

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Comment From: james schleppenbach

3/11/18 @ 5:51 AM

As a farmer in Buck's County, we rely on clean and available groundwater supplies to grow our crops and water our livestock. As climate change continues to impact precipitation patterns and as populations rise, our ground water supplies are becoming ...↓

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Comment From: Gail Brunner

3/11/18 @ 5:37 AM

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Comment From: Sharon Wushensky

3/11/18 @ 4:41 AM

We need protection from the DRBC, not exemptions. The Federal exemptions reduce control of how hazardous materials from fracking must be disposed of. Rescind the proposed section 440.5 and protect the Delaware River watershed.

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Comment From: Liza Phillips

3/11/18 @ 3:41 AM

To allow fracking in the Delaware river basin would be a terrible mistake. Water is our most precious asset and the Delaware river and its tributaries provide drinking water to 17 million people and home to numerous endangered species. For the sake ...↓

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Comment From: Laura Horowitz

3/11/18 @ 2:58 AM

There is no safe way to do fracking. The harms it causes have been documented extensively. Endangering the safety of our drinking water to prop up the fossil fuels industry is suicidal. The best way to avoid the pollution that results from natu...↓

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Comment From: Macyle Candela

3/11/18 @ 2:49 AM

173 Lake Meade Drive East Berlin. The forests do NOT belong to businesses

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Comment From: M Kirby

3/10/18 @ 5:12 PM

Clean water, and protecting its sources, is critically important for public health and safety. All measures should be taken to avoid water contamination/pollution. There have been too many instances already in Pennsylvania, from fracking and other ...↓

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Comment From: Carol Anne Donohoe

3/10/18 @ 4:57 PM

I urge a ban on all fracking activities in the Delaware River Basin. As a 22 year Pennsylvania resident, coming from generations of Pennsylvanians, I am appalled at what fracking has done to this beautiful state and its resources. The Delaware River ...↓

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Comment From: Leo Kucewicz

3/10/18 @ 3:48 PM

I say this as a voter and citizen of PA who is concerned about these matters. "It is important to not only support a complete ban on natural gas drilling, but also to oppose proposed regulations 440.5 which would allow the wastewater produced by...↓ fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed. In addition, we also oppose proposed regulation 440.4 which would allow water to be exported from the Basin for fracking elsewhere. We need protection from the DRBC, not exemptions. The Federal exemptions reduce control of how hazardous materials from fracking must be disposed of. Rescind the proposed section 440.5 and protect the Delaware River watershed. The best way to avoid the pollution that results from natural gas operations is to prohibit gas drilling entirely in the river basin. Make the ban total and permanent. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air and water. Our water quality must not be degraded. Natural gas activities result in discharges of the myriad of chemicals used in fracking and results in radioactivity downstream. Proposed Regulation 440.5 must be deleted. No water from outside this watershed should be imported for treatment. Toxic, hazardous and radioactive materials build up over time and are cumulative. Our groundwater and streams would be at risk. The natural gas drilling industry has already received unprecedented federal exemptions from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. We need more protection from the DRBC, not less. PA DEP has received over 9,000 public complaints about environmental problems in shale gas drilling areas. We can avoid that grief by banning all gas drilling in the Delaware River basin. Contaminated fluids from the fracking process has been proven to migrate from the deep shale layers and contaminate our groundwater. Delete proposed regulation 440.5 It makes little sense to allow frackwater fluids to be brought in to our watershed. Natural gas development has degraded Pennsylvania streams. Spills and deliberate dumping of frackwater flowback have contaminated some of our coldwater fisheries. Keep the complete ban on gas drilling in place. Protect our streams. Fracking has negative impacts on public health. Air emissions have greater adverse health impacts on those who reside in or frequent areas within two miles of gas operations. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clean air. Keep the complete ban on gas drilling in place. Most of the Delaware River is protected by the Commission's "Special Protection Waters" regulations. Water quality is not allowed to be degraded. Keep the total ban on gas drilling in place. "Treatment" & discharge of fracking wastewater will degrade the water quality of the river. Rescind proposed section 440.5 The Precautionary Principal states that if you cannot predict all the effects of an action, do not do it. Do not allow any gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin. Allowing gas drilling in the Delaware watershed puts the water supply for up to 17 million people at risk. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) has determined that there are 300 cases of private water well contamination caused by oil and gas operations in the Commonwealth. Keep the ban on natural gas drilling in place.

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Comment From: Andrea Young

3/10/18 @ 2:14 PM

Do NOT permit gas fracking and drilling. Fossil fuels need to be phased out, NOT permitted to continue polluting our planet.

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Comment From: Marry Ann Leitch

3/10/18 @ 1:32 PM

The Federal exemptions reduce control of how hazardous materials from fracking must be disposed of. Rescind the proposed section 440.5 and protect the Delaware River watershed. Article I § 27 of our State Constitution guarantees our right to clea...↓

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Comment From: Susan Babbitt

3/10/18 @ 11:11 AM

We must work for a total ban on natural gas drilling. We must also fight against regulation 440.5, which would allow the wastewater from fracking to be stored, processed, and discharged in the Delaware River Watershed. Ditto for proposed regulation 4...↓

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Comment From: Michael Drake

3/10/18 @ 11:09 AM

Many of us rely on our water wells for our homes. Water is life. We cannot chance having our wells contaminated by gas drilling activities. Do not allow any gas drilling activities in our watershed. In addition, The National Academy of Sciences...↓

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