47-085-09909
This commercial Ritchie county well was drilled for injection. This and another now-plugged injection well (47-085-09669) are elements of a waste facility, part of which is devoted to the recycling of Marcellus flowback for reuse in fracturing other Marcellus wells. The facility's location is off Route 50 close to the primary area for horizontal Marcellus activity in West Virginia. A separate page has links to Google Earth images of the facilty. Besides the injection well, the facility has two large pits to store hydraulic fracturing flowback fluid. This waste facility site has been associated with surface and groundwater pollution.
Well drilled in 2012 for injection.
Formation into which waste is injected -- Oriskany
Geographic location: latitude 39.287206, longitude -81.014448
Major issue
- Facility with which this and another injection well are associated has been linked to ground and surface water contamination.
Documents
March 2013 waste fluid analysis and radiological analysis
July 2013 waste fluid analysis
2013 Facility monitoring wells report
2015 Facility stormwater management report
2015 Office of Oil and Gas Order to develop site investigation plan because of monitoring well evidence of groundwater contamination
October 2015 Office of Oil and Gas stormwater investigation report, site map, analyses table, and lab reports
2015 Certified Record for Environmental Quality Board hearing. This includes the above documents and other related documents
Goggle Earth Imagery
Location of injection well in the facility. For Google Earth imagery of the facility see this page.
These are photos taken during the Agency's 2015 site visit.
The western pit, looking south. The sediment on the pitliner seems to indicate fluid height above required freeboard of 2 feet.
The western pit looking south.
Oil is skimmed from the pits and stored in this large storage tank.
The eastern pit looking south.
The injection well is within a fenced enclosure. Gauges are visible which measure injection pressure.
This is the lower part of the injection well. There is a gauge off the upper casing head to the right that measures the tubing casing annular pressure.
Underground Injection Control Class 2 Wells
Introduction to Class 2 Wells in West Virginia
Collected documents and information for a number of Class 2 disposal wells and secondary recovery area permits
Searchable tables for UIC inspections, UIC permitting and MITs based on a copy of the Office of Oil and Gas' online UIC databases made in 2016.
Background materials related to West Virginia's primacy (including the primacy application), EPA guidance documents, and a lot more.
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Underground Injection Control Class 2 Wells
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What Happened at Fernow
An investigation into what caused the vegetation death in the land application area after landspraying hydraulic fracture flowback waste.
The Spill at Buckeye Creek
An investigation into a spill from a Marcellus well site into Buckeye Creek in Doddridge county.
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Fluids Brought to the Surface during Production
Plugging a Well
How To Read a Lab Report
Information the Completion Report Provides
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