[Green] Come Hell or High Water

[Joe Baker]

Hi George,
I asked Eric Richendollar to search for articles from the Marietta Times
regarding the Deep Rock facility on Rt 7 and he responded with this article
from 2016:
http://shaleplayohiovalley.com/page/content.detail/id/511464/Brine-water-flowing-to-injection-wells.html?nav=5004

The article provides a bit of history regarding the facility. The
information is similar to my recollection from community discussion that
occurred at the time. It mentions Water Energy Services as the operator or
owner of the facility, I'm not sure which. WES may have morphed into Deep
Rock Solutions through acquisition, renaming, or the formation of a new
company. It also refers to the following:"The company's two facilities work
in tandem 24 hours a day to accept up to *40,000 barrels of brine per day,
filter that water in a closed system* and pump it up the hill to be
injected at a rate of up to 15,000 barrels per day." I don't know if that
limit has changed, but if I remember correctly, the current Deep Rock
proposal indicates that one benefit of their proposed barge offload
facility would be reduced road traffic in the form of brine trucks
traveling through town. I'm wondering if there is a limit to the volume of
waste water in their current proposal and if that limit could be an
addition to the 40,000 barrel limit at the current offload site. I'm also
wondering if companies that have their waste water trucked in would be
willing to convert to shipping it by barge or simply continue to truck it.

Also, the article points out that, "This facility is the largest in terms
of real estate in the U.S", a rather astounding fact, if accurate.

Thanks for all of your work and research,
Joe

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:30 PM gbanz42--- via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote:

> Green Colleagues:
>
>    I came away from the viewing of the film, "Come Hell or High Water"
> with two impressions:
>
>      1. Black lives don't matter to the government of the state of
> Mississippi and that of Gulfport, MS.
>
>       2. I couldn't help but view this issue of Turkey Creek through the
> lens of the proposal to re-purpose the facility for offloading fracking
> waste near Marietta. The barge off-load facility will likely result in much
> less damage to our community than the development projects will to the
> Turkey Creek community. Another difference is that people in our community
> are not aware of the risks posed by this proposed facility--largely due to
> the secrecy of key elements of the project on the part of Deep Rock
> Disposal.  For example, do people on Harmar Hill know that there is a huge
> injection well in their neighborhood?  Other people who do know about this
> facility .probably view this risk as an acceptable result of good jobs,
> economic development,  and cheap energy in the region.
>
>     I'd be interested in the response of other GS members to this film. I
> am not sure if I will join the discussion about the film sponsored by
> Interfaith Power & Light since my issue #2 is not shared by people outside
> our region. .
>
>
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