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To: tejek who wrote (619077)7/12/2011 4:54:29 PM
From: Brumar891 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580483
 
Water laden with chemicals will flow down until it finds a bottom.........and that's where the ground water is located.

Well water usually comes from a few hundred feet down. Natural gas is normally found thousands of feet farther down.

Example:

geology.com

If "water laden with chemicals" flowed down ... it would be moving away from the aquifers water is drawn from.

Any danger to the well aquifers would come from bad casing of the well section that passes through the aquifer or its recharge zone. The states regulate this. Its not a situation where the EPA must come into an unregulated environment.