Our Drinking Water?
To date, April 24th, Washington County, Ohio, ALONE has 18 Brine Water Injection Wells!
Deep Rock Disposal Solutions has applied for an additional permit to drill a new injection well located here in Washington County. The plan is to bring additional brine to this new well location by barge and rail cars!
The question is ... what is in the "brine water" and where is it heading?
Map of all Washington County Class II injection wells
East Palestine, Ohio
The February 3, 2023, derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying chemicals released hazardous substances into the environment near the town of East Palestine, Ohio, both through the initial crash, which spilled chemicals and ignited fires, and also through a “controlled burn” of a car full of vinyl chloride.
East Palestine, OH Water Test Report Below
Drinking Water Test Reports from Washington County, Ohio, and Wood County, WV
East Palestine, OH, where a toxic train disaster affected a relatively small area and was a one-time event, we here have had this going on for years with millions of gallons of this toxic material coming from PA, WV, and Ohio being pumped into our area on a daily basis.
We are already seeing earthquakes associated with these wells. The long-term contamination of our drinking water is not a hypothetical risk — it is a ticking time bomb. Local and state officials have consistently ignored or downplayed these dangers.
Know what’s in Your Drinking WATER
Oil and Gas Injection Well Issues in the Mid-Ohio Valley
Presented January 8th, 2024
Washington County Ohio MOVCAC Meeting
Westlake’s property, expanding west under the Ohio River and into neighboring land.
May 29, 2025
On October 27, 2022, we and our co-counsel won a unanimous jury verdict awarding more than $70 million on behalf of our client against Westlake Chemical.
Westlake owns and operates the Natrium chemical plant, which sits on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River, just across the river from our client’s property in Ohio. For decades, the Natrium plant mined salt from deep underground salt deposits using a technique called solution mining. This involves pumping water deep underground at high pressures to dissolve the salt deposits, and then pumping the saltwater solution back to the surface. This process creates underground caverns where the salt was extracted.
What is Oil and Gas BRINE
May 25, 2025
A major hazardous byproduct of oil and gas operations, called “brine,” poses a pressing problem because of its long-term radioactivity and the extreme volumes produced each year. Billions of gallons of this waste have been injected into Class II injection wells throughout Ohio, and millions of gallons have been spread on Ohio roads as a deicer and dust suppressant. Several activist groups in Ohio have been working to educate the public and elected officials about the dangers of spreading oil and gas waste brine and to ban this practice for the benefit of current and future generations, and nature.
Ohio State Legislator, Residents Discuss Injection Well Concerns, Tour Impacted Sites
May 25, 2025
Residents of Warren Township and Marietta were joined yesterday by State Rep Tristan Rader to discuss concerns about injection wells and to visit two conventional gas and oil wells impacted by brine wastewater migration from injection wells in the area. Residents and members of the local water authority are concerned that a recently permitted injection well will compound the problem and threaten drinking water supplies.
Surface Tension: Residents express injection well concerns at Warren water meeting
May 20, 2025
MARIETTA, OH — Local residents, oil and gas well owners and township trustees gathered Monday at the Warren Community Water and Sewer Association office for a discussion with a state representative from northern Ohio about community concerns regarding brine injection wells, carbon capture legislation and threats those technologies may pose to water safety and public health in Washington County.
Washington County, OH is being targeted for Radioactive Fracking Waste Brine
May 16, 2025
Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Gas and Oil Chief Eric Vendel has agreed to meet with concerned Warren Community Water and Sewer Association (WCWSA) members due to public pressure, after nearly 150 people attended an April 26th public meeting at Warren High School in Washington County organized by WCWSA members and the board of trustees.
Water safety in our region is under threat
The issue of clean water is not or shouldn’t be a partisan issue in our community. Everyone wants clean safe water to drink and a safe environment for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. I went to the Warren water public meeting on April 26 at the Warren High School auditorium. There was a large number of concerned citizens in attendance. Maybe they, like me had concerns about the number of brine trucks that are seen everywhere, everyday on our roads and coming through our towns. Maybe they, like me, are worried about the number of injection wells that we have in this area. We learned Saturday that Washington County already has 17 Class 2 Wells — more than any other county in Ohio. Is this something that we want to be known for?
Elected officials missing in action
Two of Southeast Ohio’s elected officials missed an important opportunity to hear their constituents’ concerns and answer their questions. Last Saturday, April 26, the trustees of the Warren Community Water Board held a public meeting on Deep Rock Disposal’s permit application for yet another injection well, this one in Warren Township. The water board, working with the Warren Township trustees, held this meeting because the Department of Natural Resources declined to do so. Weeks before the meeting date, the trustees invited District 30 Senator Brian Chavez, CEO of Deep Rock, and District 94 Representative Kevin Ritter. Both declined, as did DNR Chief Eric Vendel.
Earthquake rocks Ohio city that sits on top ancient fault line
While the epicenter sits on an ancient fault, Ohio is also home to fracking that has been linked to earthquakes.
Fracking involves miners drilling deep into the earth’s surface and releasing high-pressure water that creates a small explosion to release natural gas and oil that can be used to create energy.
Oil company claims fracking waste has ruined parts of the region for oil and gas extraction
ATHENS: July 3, 2024 — When a state agency last year ordered an operator of injection wells for fracking waste to stop injecting into its wells in the Coolville area, the reason cited was that toxic waste fluids were apparently “migrating” from the injection wells and showing up in oil and gas production wells up to a mile or more away.
You Won't Believe What We Found Hidden In This Small Ohio Town
Austin Master illegally stored 10,000 tons of radioactive debris in Martins Ferry, just 500 feet from the Ohio River.
A trucker who hauled the toxic fracking waste told us he wasn’t informed what he was carrying.
Ohio regulators let the company get away with it for years.
West Virginia Reports
Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping of Fracking Wastewater
Advocates for both sides say public drinking water may be tainted by underground leaks of “produced water.”
By Jon Hurdle / May 14, 2023
What’s in Your Drinking Water?
Everything you need to know in order to fill a glass from your tap with confidence.