Fracking Food Crisis: Idaho, Oregon, Washington hit by contaminated water, coincides with oil industry Fracking!

10 April 2016 (15:21 UTC-07 Tango 01) 22 Farvardin 1395/02 Rajab 1437/04 Ren-Chen 4714

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that ever since oil industry Fracking ops have been allowed to take place in the Pacific northwest (about 2004) water quality has suffered. More than 60 public water sources in Idaho, Oregon and Washington have exceeded federal safe levels of lead contamination in the past three years!

The majority of contaminated water systems are in Oregon with 37, followed by Idaho with 22. Washington has eight contaminated systems.

The majority of those water sources supply local grade schools. Some Oregon school administrators admitted they were informed of the lead contamination in 2013, and have been buying bottled water ever since. In Idaho, several school directors blamed lead contamination on old plumbing and claim that lead levels went down after the plumbing was replaced. In Washington the first reported case of lead contamination was at the State Patrol Academy, in 2012. Directors say they’ve been on bottled water since then, but are working to hook up to ‘city’ supplied water.

Most of the contaminated water sources involve systems using well water. Across the U.S. the EPA found at least 1-thousand 4-hundred public water systems contaminated with lead, affecting 3.6-million people!

I find it interesting that here in Idaho the lead contamination (even though blamed on old plumbing) begins just after ‘test Fracking’ began in 2011. In 2012 Gem State ‘law makers’ officially allowed Fracking, and also banned city and county governments from banning Fracking! Isn’t it possible the chemicals (solvents) used in Fracking caused the built up contaminants in the old plumbing to come loose? Current unconfirmed reports indicate Fracking ops have halted.

In Oregon there are reports that Fracking stopped by 2015. Fracking for Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) began as early as 2004. Apparently Fracking for LNG in Washington was supposed to start in 2012, however, recent reports say no Fracking is taking place. It is difficult to find reliable sources of public info on Fracking because the industry, and even state governments, are tight lipped about the controversial operation.

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