HEI Energy Publishes Two Investigator Reports

Hydrocarbon Extraction and Risk to Groundwater in Pennsylvania: Part 2. An Analysis of Water Quality in the Oldest Hydrocarbon Basin in the United States, in Part 2 of the study, co-principal investigators Jennifer Baka and Susan L. Brantley, Pennsylvania State University collected and analyzed 97 water samples from private wells, springs, and streams in areas where Part 1 indicated that groundwater may have been affected by unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD).

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A Groundwater Modeling Framework for Elucidating Community Exposures Across the Marcellus Region to Contamination Associated with Oil and Gas Development, the study led by James E. Saiers, Yale University, provides a groundwater modeling approach, using data from over 25,000 well pads in the Marcellus region, to estimate the likelihood of a spill associated with UOGD reaching the residential groundwater supply.

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