Talk:2011 SGEIS Flaws(NY)

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Discussion Threats to Water

I want to add a new section to Threats to Water currently section 8.1. I would like to add it as section 8.1.1 subtitling Water Quality Model. I will first post the content here and then after a week for discussion cut it into the main article page.--JohnWunder 09:17, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Water Quality Model

The Revised dSGIES does a better job enumerating the indivividual threats to water quality than the earlier draft but still does not properly model the interaction of those threats. Adverse affects on water quality are likely the biggest threat introduced by hydraulic fracturing and the interplay of a change of this magnitude needs to be modeled using the EPA Water Quality Models. In particular FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps in Table 3.4 should be updated to account for the floods of 2005, 2006 and 2011 particularly for Tioga County and the Town/Village of Owego as they are currently dated 1997 and 1982. Using current floodplains models of fracturing activity should be run to account for waste treatment, storm run-off and leakage during normal day-to-day operation through the 30 year cycle planned for the Marcellus Shale Region A of the dSGEIS. Additionally at least 2 models should be run in extreme situations such as flood, earthquake or terrorist attack.

The current dSGEIS only mentions water quality models once. The Q7-10 flow model used by the DRBC 'when evaluating waste load assimilative capacity' on page 7-14. This is a good start but the dSGEIS needs to go beyond existing models and build it's own water quality models to understand the integrated affect hydraulic fracturing will have on the water cycle in the Marcellus Shale region. For example, while wells are already designated not to be in floodplains what is the impact of fracturing wastes being in waste treatment plants that are in floodplain or how will those floodplains change when the storm runoff is altered by the construction of 1600 new wells a year. The same due diligence needs to be put into the water quality model that the dSGEIS put into the air quality model!--JohnWunder 09:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

There is some concern with generally stating the dSGEIS does well on individual threats as it could be perceived as contradictory with other portions of the page. Changed wording to now read it is better than the earlier draft which shoul be less controversial--JohnWunder 10:38, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

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