Folks, I was there...
...and I have the muddy sneakers, pictures, videos...and field-collected samples to prove it.
Stay tuned...post building.
Semper Vigilans since 1999
"Tarbell said various substances could easily seep into the groundwater through cracks in underground rockbeds created by the fracturing process of drilling for oil and gas, leading to the determination that Schreiner was the responsible party for the contamination."Read the rest here.
Looks like bentonite, which is used as drilling mud. That quantity of it...looks like a lost circulation problem but the quantity...and the places it has turned up, incredible. Chip Northrup might have done a paper about this. I will look and see.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.halliburton.com/public/cem/contents/chem_compliance/web/h02088-a4.pdf
ReplyDeleteThose samples might contain anything along with bentonite clay, from walnut shells to other industrial waste.