Dimock Municipal Water

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Dimock Municipal Water

Last Update: 9/17/2010 10:15 pm

Pennsylvania’s top environmental regulator is proposing that residents in Dimock, PA who have had their drinking water wells contaminated by nearby hydro-fracking, be connected to municipal water supplies six miles away.

John Hanger says the best and only solution is to connect residents to the water system in Montrose at a cost of more than $10 million.  The state DEP determined that the residential wells were contaminated with methane as a result of nearby natural gas drilling by Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas.  Cabot has been supplying the homes with bottled water and the residents have launched a lawsuit against the company.  Hanger says that if Cabot balks at paying the tab, the state will pay for the work itself, then go after Cabot for the money.