Athens Co. Commish, #OH State Sen, State Rep, request public hearing 4 MEGA #injectionwell permit application(K&H2 ). 108 letters decry application. EXCERPT: "Since seismic activity can happen long after pressures are reduced, letter writers state that “reducing pressure at that point may be too late to prevent future quakes.” The letters go on to request, “Given that nearby Washington County has experienced recent earthquakes associated with increased deep well activity and that Youngstown, which had never experienced quakes, had close to 100 earthquakes associated with injection wells,[2] please provide to the public, in a manner in which the public can respond before a permit is issued, evidence used to determine that seismic testing was not necessary for this well and the peer-reviewed science on which this determination was made.” No seismic survey or explanation of its absence accompanies the application. "Letter writers cite federal law and question Ohio’s primacy, or authority, to regulate its own injection well program: “Ohio is required to protect drinking water sources per 40 CFR 144.12. Primacy is based on being able to fulfill this requirement. If Ohio did not have primacy over its UIC – underground injection well control program – and a USEPA permit were required, K&H Partners would be subject to USEPA Region 5 Commercial Class II well permit requirements because K&H Partners will be injecting waste that it does not produce. (epa.gov/r5water/uic/forms/commercial.htm) This USEPA Commercial Class II permit would mandate, among other requirements: - Restrictions on injected fluids, approval of new sources… - Restriction of fluids injected to a list approved by USEPA for injection into the commercial well and contained in the permit [Part III(D)];… -Submission of quarterly analyses of samples taken from the location identified in the permit [Part II(B)(3)] for the normal brine constituents: sodium, calcium, total iron, magnesium, barium, sulfate, chloride, bicarbonate, carbonate, sulfide, total dissolved solids, pH, resistivity, and specific gravity,…” "Ohio does not require any of these USEPA reporting activities or restrictions." [2] footnote: Kim, W.-Y. (2013), Induced seismicity associated with fluid injection into a deep well in Youngstown, Ohio, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 118, 3506–3518, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50247, p. 3515 at www1.gly.bris.ac.uk/bumps/secure/POTW/Kim_2013.pdf
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:30:24 +0000
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