EPA recently finalized a rule under the Clean Water Act to protect rivers and drinking water supplies from direct discharges of fracking wastewater by municipal sewage plants.. EPA’s update to the Effluent Guidelines under the Clean Water Act prohibits oil and gas companies from sending wastewater from “unconventional” oil and gas operations for disposal at sewage plants (Publically
Courtesy of Clean Water Action. Waste Treatment Corporation in Warren, Pa. The EPA has banned oil and gas producers from using publicly owned treatment facilities to dispose of fracking waste.
Get PriceIn 2016, the EPA went further, and prohibited companies who operate “unconventional wells” from disposing of their wastewater into municipal treatment systems, known as Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW), since these city-owned facilities are not designed to handle this type of industrial waste.
Get PriceStudy of Oil and Gas Extraction Wastewater Management Under the Clean Water Act EPA‐ 821‐R19‐001 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Engineering and Analysis Division Office of Water 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20460 Draft May 2019
Get PriceEPA established pretreatment standards for the Oil and Gas Extraction Category (40 CFR Part 435) under the Onshore Subcategory (Subpart C) in 2016.The standards prohibit discharges of wastewater pollutants from onshore unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction facilities to publicly owned treatment works publicly owned treatment worksA treatment works that is owned by the state or municipality.
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Get PriceDetailed information is available in EPA’s report at EPA 821-R-09-008. Oil & gas guidelines. This rule is intended to prevent the discharge of wastewater from onshore oil and gas production facilities to publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) and is directly aimed at oil- and gas-producing wells and hydraulic fracturing processes.
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Get PriceThe culprit: wastewater from oil and gas drilling and coal mines. This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants—facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the "treated" water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.
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Get PriceThe other area Wheeler mentioned, according to AP, is wastewater treatment and recycling for oil and gas operations. That opens up a whole new can of worms for oil and gas stakeholders.
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