Use of Effluent for Fracking

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Added Dec 2, 2010, Under: 1. Local News
Village of Owego trustees will make a decision Monday on a deal with Inflection Energy that could mean millions of dollars over the next 10 years.  Village Clerk/Treasurer Rod Marchewka says the Denver-based company wants to purchase the effluent, or liquid waste, from the village’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. He says the contract has the potential to generate at least $36.5 million in revenue to the village over the next 10 years.  Marchewka says the revenues could be used instead of taxes to lower sewer rates and replace deteriorating infrastructure throughout the village.  The village board meeting will begin at 7pm on Monday at the Hubbard Auditorium in the Tioga County Office Building.
The company’s powerpoint presentation is available online at www.villageofowego.com.

Owego officials put decision on hold.  12/20/10

Comment by Bret Jennings:

Have the village get the permit and sell the discharge to anyone that
needs it at the time.  That is what Inflection will do since full
scale drilling will use way more water than is available.  This past
summer the gas companies had to stop withdrawals in areas, But the one
area that they could have drawn water is the sewer plants.  The other
benefit is that it could reduce the need for upgrades if enough
discharge is used.  So it is a benefit for the Chesapeake Bay
Watershed implementation Plan.  Now you have to tell the village board
that they could sell the sewer plant discharge.  It was talked about
at the Pennsylvania Municipal Authority Association meeting in October
at Penn State.  The owners of the sewer plant need to get a withdrawal
permit from the SRBC and then have the drilling company add that
permit to the consumptive use permit.  In other words,  cut Infection out
of the loop and get more profits.

Bret Jennings
Councillor Great Bend Borough
Director Hallstead Great Bend Joint Sewer Authority

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Right Now the Hallstead Great Bend Joint Sewer Authroity is with in permit for at least an hour or so.  After that our blanket of good
bacteria will be upset.  With the rain I had to take a look at the numbers and took some readings of the trench that processes the
waste.  It was going down hill since this morning.  While a sewer plant is in permited levels you can sell up to a certain amount, but
you need to maintain a flow to the discharge point and if the river is low enough then no selling of the discharge.
The positives:
1.  It lowers your total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and total disolved solids level for the year if you sell enough of it.
2.  It is consumptive use so none of it is coming back in to the water system (hopefully)
3. normaly water is maintained.
4. It is a cheaper way of getting rid of polutants than buying credits or building a new sewer plant to the limits of Technology to meet the Cheapeake Bay TDML.
5. an alternitive form of chemical tracing a blown out well casing.

I do not know one site that is permited by the SRBC that draws water from a sewer plant in PA.  It can be used but if they frack with water that was drawn during an upset well the water will taste like C!@# in addition to the funny coloration in nearby water wells.  I know how to set up the sewer authority with a permit for withdrawals.  This would allow the sewer authority to sell to more drilling companies. Then the drilling company would have to list the sewer authority’s permit number on their permit for the well pad.  I feal that they can get it cheaper from a river or water company than a sewer plant and of better quality.  I am sorry; some times when dealing with this C!@# it is all that I can say.

Bret Jennings
Councillor Great Bend Borough
Director Hallstead Great Bend Joint Sewer Authority