Study tries to untangle shale gas and coal impacts on Ohio groundwater

Energy News Network: Rob Reed is happy to have clean well water at his family’s Monroe County, Ohio, fruit farm.

But in a region rife with fossil fuel extraction, worries about contamination loom.

“It seems like eastern Ohio is always under assault from some entity or another, whether it’s an underground coal mine or fracking for natural gas or whatever it is,” Reed said. “They’re always drilling holes and making tunnels under the earth. Of course, that’s where the water comes from.”

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