Mandate the Department of Environmental Protection use the most comprehensive testing protocols available in all future environmental testing and require full and complete disclosure of testing results to landowners.
Why is this important?
When it comes to protecting the health of Pennsylvanians, you would hope the government would always use the most stringent and comprehensive tests available and would report the full results of those tests to homeowners. But, you’d be wrong.
For more than four years, the Department of Environmental Protection has been able to test for 45 contaminants in its water-sample analysis. Instead, it has only tested for fewer than half those contaminants for the last two years—leaving off numerous dangerous toxins including selenium, arsenic, mercury and chromium.
A number of the contaminants left off the test cause nausea, vomiting, hair loss, cellular damage, tremors and more. These are all symptoms that have been reported by individuals living near gas drilling operations.
