Kinzuakitty
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I think nature is an issue but not the only factor. Stevenson has gone through many droughts without becoming a mud puddle. I work, lived and fished in Cameron County for over 32 years. I now live in Warren County in the Allegheny National Forest and drive to work each day and have seen with my own eyes the huge water trucks sucking water out of the streams. (potato creek near Crosby) They are using the water to frack wells, especially the deep gas wells within the Marcellus Shale. One well takes from 2-9 MILLION gallons of water, an average of 4 million per well, which they get from local streams and reservoirs. (of course then you have millions of gallons of contaminated water). They are actively fracking these wells in Potter County and I know from talking with the Conservation District that they suspect the companies have been going in the middle of the night and taking more water than is permitted. DEP is not prepared or able to monitor this type of drilling or to monitor the huge amounts of water that is required. If they are sucking the water from the watershed which feeds Stevenson it would certainly add to the DRAMATIC lack of water. An oil company near our home in the ANF has recently built a huge pit and then drilled 4 water wells in the ANF. They pump the water into the pit and then water trucks come in the middle of the night and truck it to who knows where. Our water went bad, lack of pressure, very murky and our neighbor's well went dry, collapsed and his water pump burned up. The oil company told him they would put a water purifier on his system and NOT to contact the DEP.
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