{"id":447,"date":"2010-09-23T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:10:21","slug":"dep-pushes-for-montrose-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2010\/09\/23\/dep-pushes-for-montrose-water\/","title":{"rendered":"DEP pushes for Montrose water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY LAURA LEGERE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Times-Shamrock Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state environmental regulatory agency is pushing a natural gas driller it deemed responsible for contaminating residential drinking water to pay to expand a public water line from Montrose to Dimock Twp.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said after a telephone conference with affected Dimock residents on Wednesday evening that he assured the families the department is \u201cmoving ahead\u201d with plans to find a permanent solution to their water issues and that he \u201csupports a public water extension from Montrose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That solution \u2013 if it is adopted \u2013 would be a tremendous undertaking: The centers of the two municipalities are separated by 6.5 miles, and people in Dimock currently rely almost exclusively on wells.<\/p>\n<p>Hanger would reveal few specifics about the plan except to say that he has not received a final answer about the proposal from Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., which DEP found responsible for contaminating 14 residential water supplies in Dimock with methane as it drilled for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary also said he hopes to join with the families \u201con or around\u201d Sept. 29 to announce \u201chow this situation is going to be resolved.\u201d Earlier, through a spokesman, he said it would be a \u201cmajor announcement\u201d that would be made \u201cwith or without Cabot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be ready to talk in detail with great specificity around the 29th when we wrap this up,\u201d he said when asked to describe the proposed project Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Cabot spokesman George Stark said Wednesday the company \u201ccontinues to work with the department and the residents to make certain that we investigate all the options for fresh drinking water along Carter Road\u201d \u2013 the rural Dimock road where most of the affected residents live.<\/p>\n<p>Cabot has said it is not responsible for the methane contamination, which it attributes to natural causes, but has accepted responsibility for restoring the impacted water supplies.<\/p>\n<p>DEP suspended portions of Cabot\u2019s operations in April after it found 14 of the company\u2019s gas wells in Dimock were improperly constructed or overpressured and were causing methane to seep into water wells.<\/p>\n<p>The company has paid more than $360,000 in fines and was ordered to fix the affected water supplies, but at least 11 of the 14 families refused Cabot\u2019s proposed solution \u2013 methane elimination systems to be installed in each of the homes \u2013 saying the systems are inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>Stark said the filtration systems are working in the homes where families accepted them and those systems remain one of the options the company is considering for restoring the water for the other residents.<\/p>\n<p>Other options including drilling new drinking water wells and studying \u201cwhat it would take to have line run from Montrose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dimock residents were relieved and enthusiastic Wednesday after speaking with Hanger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s never been a community that\u2019s forced a gas company to really restore water,\u201d resident Victoria Switzer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very, very proud of his response to this,\u201d she said of the secretary. \u201cHe\u2019s looking out for the citizens of Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer The state environmental regulatory agency is pushing a natural gas driller it deemed responsible for contaminating residential drinking water to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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