Fouled Waters: Woodlands trying to solve its own problems

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CONNOQUENESSING TOWNSHIP -- With each passing week, more and more residents in the Woodlands start to live in a waterless world.

The backwoods neighborhood of 200 homes and trailers about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh has exhausted nearly every option for official help since private well water began running orange or drying up altogether in early 2011.

In just the past four months, the number of homes collecting gallon jugs of donated fresh water has more than doubled to 25. The community set up a water bank at a local church to accommodate the growing demand -- the latest step in a two-year saga that started when neighbors called each other with the same complaint: The well water was getting very bad, very fast.

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[KoKo]

1. Later tests by state, U.S. agencies, driller provide no answers

Fouled Waters: Woodlands trying to solve its own problems
Water tests by state, U.S. agencies, driller provide no answers

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[Doremus]

2. My first thought would be fracking.

Has there been any in the area that you know of?