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Hydraulics of Groundwater Jacob Bear
Publisher: Dover Publications

Geological survey that finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing operations in the Fayetteville Shale in north-central Arkansas. In November of last year, the Energy Institute at the University of Texas (UT) announced preliminary findings that hydraulic fracturing does not contaminate groundwater (see this MDN story). In an interview with the BBC, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser argued that hydraulic fracturing — also known as fracking — done in the right way does not cause groundwater pollution. That's not just my opinion but rather is that of the GAO who sometime ago issued a report (http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-732) that says that they find no evidence that hydraulic fracturing fluids migrate into groundwater. More recent EPA investigations regarding potential links between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination in Dimock, PA and Pavillion, WY have only added fuel to the fire. FracFocus, a new hydraulic fracturing website, launched on Monday with the stated goal “to provide the public with objective information on hydraulic [1] The website is a joint project of the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC), a non- profit association of state groundwater regulatory agencies, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), a multi-state government agency dating back to 1935. My specialties include hydrology, hydraulics, groundwater, spatial data analysis, environmental compliance, and computer modeling. The contamination of groundwater through industrial and consumer pollution has long been a public health concern. "Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater quality in areas associated with natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing has been used for more than 60 years in over 1 million wells, and the Environmental Protection Agency has not documented a single case of groundwater contamination caused by the technology. A new study by Duke University and the U.