[CRNMC] Item re: Oil dumping into aquifers from Center for Biological Diversity

[Madge Strong]

Oil Industry Dumping Toxic Wastewater Into Scores of California Aquifers

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Fracking flavored waterCalifornia regulators allowed the oil industry to
drill hundreds of wastewater disposal wells into aquifers with water
suitable for drinking or irrigation, newly released documents show. Now the
Center is calling on the EPA to immediately shut down these operations --
which are illegal -- to protect California's water during an unprecedented
drought.

Last summer the state's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources issued
emergency shutdown orders for multiple injection wells in Kern County after
they were found to be dumping wastewater into aquifers containing drinkable
water.

But documents show that the agency has allowed hundreds of other injection
wells to dump oil wastewater into protected aquifers around the state, from
Monterey County and sites near San Luis Obispo to Kern and Los Angeles
counties. Oil industry wastewater is an extremely salty fluid that typically
contains a wide range of contaminants. It can also contain fracking
chemicals.

"California's drinking water aquifers shouldn't be garbage dumps for the oil
industry," said the Center's Kassie Siegel. "Both common sense and federal
law require the EPA to shut down every illegal wastewater well immediately."

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