These NY Cities, Towns, and Villages may already be suffering water contamination issues due to hydrofracking in PA, despite the present NY moratorium:
Binghamton, Endicott, Johnson City, Vestal, Apalachin,
Owego, Waverly, Elmira, Horseheads, Corning,
and all points in between with ground water
which is influenced by the Susquehanna or Tioga Rivers
Total effected population: ~160,000 NYers.
What are we going to do about this?
Raw Data from PA DEP(*1)
Interpreted and derived data by BH and is DRAFT and SUBJECT TO REVISION.
*1 Data from PA DEP, distributed by FracTracker.org. Any errors or omissions are either in the source data, or as interpreted by me. Don't blame Fractracker, which only supplied the dataset.
*2 Worst case for NY in terms of total number of wells seems to be Corning. We are still analyzing these data. Careful interpretation is needed.
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Binghamton, Endicott, Johnson City, Vestal, Apalachin,
Owego, Waverly, Elmira, Horseheads, Corning,
and all points in between with ground water
which is influenced by the Susquehanna or Tioga Rivers
Total effected population: ~160,000 NYers.
What are we going to do about this?
Raw Data from PA DEP(*1)
Interpreted and derived data by BH and is DRAFT and SUBJECT TO REVISION.
| City | Number of unconventional wells upstream | horizontal | % horiz | PA drainage area upstream | Total upstream area | Well/PA sq. mi | well/total upstream area |
| Binghamton | 98 | 86 | 87.8 | 278 sq mi. | 3,893 sq. mi.(source 1) 2283 sq. mi (USGS) http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ny/nwis/uv/?site_no=01503500 |
0.35 | 0.025 |
| Corning | 344 | 314 | 91.3 | 702 | chemung at Corning 5563 (source 1) Tioga River at Lindley 771 mi2 |
0.49 | 0.62 |
*1 Data from PA DEP, distributed by FracTracker.org. Any errors or omissions are either in the source data, or as interpreted by me. Don't blame Fractracker, which only supplied the dataset.
*2 Worst case for NY in terms of total number of wells seems to be Corning. We are still analyzing these data. Careful interpretation is needed.
Map composited by BH:
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