by FreshWater | Sep 29, 2017 | Fracking, Issues, Water Withdrawal
Our colleagues at Fractracker took the liberty of calculating lateral length for all laterals prior to the Outlaw and Walleye laterals coming online and the average was pretty well distributed but with a mean of 7,452. However, now these two pads between them along... 
by FreshWater | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Ohio Legislators, Waste, Water Withdrawal
After over 400,000 people were without safe drinking water for over two days in one of Ohio’s largest cities, did anyone feel any better after Governor Kasich’s statement during his obligatory visit to Toledo: “What’s more important than water? Water’s about life.”... by FreshWater | Jun 9, 2014 | Fracking, Issues, Muskingum Watershed, Waste, Water Withdrawal
Lea Harper, Managing Director of FreshWater Accountability Project, addressed the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District’s Annual Meeting of the Conservancy Court, the overseeing body of the conservancy, in another attempt to convince the district that they... 
by FreshWater | Apr 22, 2014 | Fracking, Issues, Muskingum Watershed, News & Blog, Press Releases, Water Testing, Water Withdrawal
April 21, 2014 — The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) Board Meeting held last Friday, April 18, 2014, provided another stunning example of how the conservancy district is allowed to tax property owners in the district without accountability to respond... 
by FreshWater | Apr 13, 2014 | Data & Presentations, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, News & Blog, Resources, Studies, Water Withdrawal
Ted Auch has responded to FWAP’s questions regarding more details from his previous study. Added recycled and freshwater trend as well. But you should basically disregard the early 16% recycled water average as it is an average of very few data and really... 
by FreshWater | Mar 23, 2014 | Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, News & Blog, Water Withdrawal
The FreshWater Accountability Project (FWAP) focuses on frackings impacts on water supplies. When Ted Auch and Danny Berghoff of the FracTracker Alliance issued a report that estimates a whopping 5.8 billion gallons of freshwater used for fracking per year, it has us...