Fracking With Recycled Mine Water

Bill Sabatose, president of the Toby Creek Watershed Association, at the Blue Valley AMD Treatment Center in Elk County, Pa. (Photo: Reid R. Frazier) After iron oxides and sulfates are taken out of the mine water, it is discharged into Brandy Camp Creek (Photo: Reid R. Frazier)

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