Drinking Water
28-page PDF copy of a final report to the Center for Rural Pennsylvania on the study of 233 water wells near gas drilling sites.
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Fact sheet by the New York State Water Resources Institute
If you received a water test report that does not have the drinking water standards, refer to this link to view or print a listing of Pennsylvania drinking water standards.
Use this tool to enter results from water testing and get a report that interprets what your results mean.
Recorded webinar and support materials related to interpreting water test reports associated with gas well drilling.
30 page publication describing how to interpret complex water test reports received from testing labs including parameters, units, drinking water standards and results.
Methane gas, also known as natural gas, occasionally enters private drinking-water wells in Pennsylvania.
Penn State Research Project. Penn State’s School of Forest Resources along with several Penn State Cooperative Extension county offices have received funding from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center to conduct a research study on the potential impacts of Marcellus gas drilling on rural drinking water supplies.
December 2011 fact sheet from the Ohio Department of Health
