Big Lagoons Could Hold Ohio Fracking Waste

Columbus Dispatch: Fracking wastewater lagoons the size of football fields could dot eastern Ohio as state officials draft rules for the storage sites. Oil and gas drillers use the lagoons to store millions of gallons of water contaminated with fracking chemicals, toxic metals and radium that come up from shale wells. Companies clean the water of pollutants so it can be recycled to frack new wells. “We are putting in a process to outline their standards of construction and their length of use,” said Mark Bruce, spokesman......

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