After reviewing water well monitoring data in Pavillion Wyoming, the EPA has determined that the contaminants are likely associated with gas drilling.  These findings are still under the public comment period and scientific peer review.

Alternative explanations were carefully considered to explain individual sets of data.  However, when considered together with other lines of evidence, the data indicates likely impact to ground water that can be explained by hydraulic fracturing.

EPA Draft Findings

The City of Denton Gas Well Task Force will be holding a full open meeting at the Denton Civic Center on:

Thursday, October 8th, 2011, 6;30-8:30 PM

Denton Civic Center

Article in DRC

This is the second public meeting of the task force (the first for public input) but the first time that an actual Task Force meeting with all members will be held in front of the public.