The agency did find a chemical cocktail in the water — sodium, methane, chromium, arsenic, or bacteria — in the water at 8 of the 11 homes, but the results were all within accepted safety ranges. The EPA could release more results of the testing around Dimock late next week.
The agency is re-testing wells near Pavillion, Wyoming, following initial testing that indicated that wells in the area had been contaminated by fracking fluids.
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Paul Ausick has been writing for 247Wallst.com for more than a decade. He has written extensively on investing in the energy, defense, and technology sectors. In a previous life, he wrote technical documentation and managed a marketing communications group in Silicon Valley.
He has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Chicago and now lives in Montana, where he fishes for trout in the summer and stays inside during the winter.
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