[Green] Come Hell or High Water

[Joe Baker]

George, I interpreted the two facilities ability "to accept up to 40,000
barrels of brine per day" as a limit. I'm not certain whether that is a
limit based on the facilities capacity or a limit determined by the State
of Ohio??

On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:40 PM Joe Baker <jbaker0509 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. .
>>
>>
>> --
>> George Banziger
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>> Marietta, OH 45750-1111
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