January 9th 2011
Staci Matlock
A group of residents opposed to drilling for natural gas in Mora County has completed a baseline water quality study of area domestic wells.
The data collected will allow them to track contamination from fluids used in natural gas drilling and production.
Kathleen Dudley, one of the founders of Drilling Mora County, said she thought Mora was the first county to complete baseline well testing. "We now have a defensible set of documents so that, if the industry was ever allowed to drill in the Las Vegas basin in Mora County, they would have to defend against their chemicals showing up in our water, because our water is testing clean from all hydraulic fracturing fluids."
The protocol for establishing baseline water quality in wells is now available from Drilling Mora County to any well owner or community water system in New Mexico.....continued.....
