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George Turner, géologue, aimerait que l'usine de traitement des eaux usées des forages avec hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania is projected build near the Susquehanna River. Wyalusing is a little over an hour's drive north of Wilkes-Barre, but a treatment plant wastewater in the proposed municipality should worry all those who live along the Susquehanna River, according to a geologist Wyoming County.
of Wyalusing Township Supervisors held a public hearing is to hear testimony on three permit applications for zoning plans for an asphalt plant, a plant for drilling mud and plant waste water treatment . The state geologist certified George Turner, Eaton County, participated the meeting and shared his concerns about the proximity of the 3 mills the Susquehanna River. 
processing plant wastewater hydraulic fracturing planned for Ground / Water Treatment & Technology is a facility with closed circuit which treated water would be reused by the gas drillers. Speaking of closed-loop system, Turner said that "this is exactly the way it should be done," but he wondered if the plant could still apply for a discharge of treated wastewater in the future. For this reason, the treatment plant should not be built near River, he said. 
"If anyone does that imply that we could dump anything in the Susquehanna River, all those who live from the point of discharge to the Chesapeake Bay should be exaggerated." Turner said, adding that "I do not want to see on the banks of the Susquehanna River because if anything at all is spilled or leaking, we know exactly where it will go." Landfills waste in the river are regulated by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and the Department of Environmental Protection of the state that impose standards on the concentrations of pollutants may be discharged. Turner said he suspects that companies that want to increase their profits dump their treated wastewater into the river and streams could generate wastewater with pollutant levels just below the maximum concentrations tolerated rather than treating them to best standards of purity, which could be more expensive.
Mr. Turner said that the soles of his feet still bear the scars after stepping on broken glass and aluminum cans along the banks of the Susquehanna when he was still a kid in the 1950s and 1960s, when the banks were still used as a dump. The river has come a long way since that time, he said. Last year, he has been diving in a section of the river and saw that 2 pieces of waste at the bottom.
"We've come a long long way," he said, and I do not want anyone to make us back! "
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"fracking Geologist Warns of Water Treatment Plant Planned
Keep Away From The Susquehanna River, URGE George Turner.
Wyalusing may be more than an hour’s drive north of Wilkes-Barre, but a natural-gas-drilling wastewater treatment plant proposed in the municipality should concern anyone who lives near the Susquehanna River, a Wyoming County geologist said Saturday (February 12 2011).
The Wyalusing Township Supervisors on Thursday (February 10 2011) held a public hearing to hear testimony on a zoning variance permit application filed by three companies planning to build an asphalt plant, a drilling mud plant and a wastewater treatment plant. State-certified professional geologist George Turner, of Eaton Township, attended the meeting and said he has concerns about the proximity of the three proposed plants to the Susquehanna River.
The hydraulic fracturing, or “frack” water treatment facility proposed by Ground/Water Treatment & Technology would be a closed-loop facility, in which treated water would be returned to gas drillers for reuse. Turner called the closed-loop system “exactly the way it should be done,” but said he still has concerns the plant might apply for a federal discharge permit to return treated water in the future. For that reason, the plant shouldn’t be built anywhere near the river, he said.
The Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority has also proposed building a frack water treatment facility next to its existing Hanover Township plant. “If anybody even hints at the possibility of discharging anything into the Susquehanna River, everybody from the point of discharge all the way down to the Chesapeake Bay ought to be upset,” Turner said, adding that “I don’t want to see anything on the borders of the Susquehanna River because if anything leaks out or spills out we know right where it’s going.”
Waste discharges into the river are regulated by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and the state Department of Environmental Protection, which impose guidelines on the concentrations of pollutants which may be discharged. Turner said he suspects profit-minded companies discharging treated water into the river and streams would produce water with pollutant levels just under those maximum concentrations rather than treating it to the highest purity standards, which would be more expensive.
Turner said the soles of his feet still bear scars from stepping on broken glass and aluminum cans as he walked the banks of the Susquehanna as a child in the 1950s and 60s, when the river bank was still a dump. The river has come a long way since then, he said. Last year he went scuba diving along a mile stretch of the river and saw only two pieces of debris on the river bottom.
“We’ve come a long way,” he said, “and I don’t want anyone allowed to make us move backward.”"
Excerpts from article written by MATT HUGHES for The Times Leader published here:
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Geologist_warns_of_fracking_water_02-13-2011.html
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