Fluid leak prompts cap of gas well (fracking, 800 gals per minute leaking)
WASHINGTON TWP. (PA) — A natural gas well that malfunctioned will remain capped as regulators investigate what caused thousands of gallons of fracking fluid to flow from the drilling site in rural Wyoming County on Wednesday night into Thursday afternoon.
State Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said the malfunction occurred at about 6 p.m. Wednesday and worsened overnight. At one point, she said, about 800 gallons of the chemically treated wastewater was escaping per minute. The site is off Keiserville Road, about three miles northwest of Tunkhannock.
Four families in the vicinity of the pad on property owned by the Yarasavage family were asked to evacuate; three did. The property owner remained, Connolly said.
The other families were permitted to return Thursday night after air-quality samples came back clean and frack fluid tests registered no radiation.
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