Big stupid trucks

[Gollnick]

If it's noise that's bothering you, Radio Shack sells a perfectly nice Sound Pressure Level Meter for $49. Take some readings and then you can show the authorities just how loud these trucks are.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Thanks guys, the truck traffic has subsided a bit starting this week, not sure the reason, but thankful none the less!
They say it's Marcellus Shale, also a large deposit.
My property rests on a very small parcel of land, less than an acre, so there were no winfalls for this household
while I know some folks did get a tidy sum though! at what cost, that's left to see.

I'll check that other thread out later on today.
Good idea Chuck with the sound meter,
G2

 

[roughneckrob]

Look like septic tank vac trucks to me.

Yeah thats a vac truck alright. Here in oil country Alberta you have thousands of these around the country side.

 

[Shrodinger's Cat]

they are a big issue in SW PA, many accidents...
the water disposal (and supply) is an issue
it is impacting our rivers pretty badly, TDS's are very high (mostly sulfides and chlorides, >500 mg/l)
drinking water plants don't remove these
I'm an engineer and licensed water/wastewater plant operator

I agree, the stakeholders (Chevron/Atlas, Chesepeake, range, etc.) are responsive, but they hire local fly by night operators who are money hungry...dumping in streams, popping sewer system manholes (this will kill a plant and has)
they are paying $0.25 per gallon and use 4800 gal trucks just like that
complain to the company that hired them, that will get their attention, they will drop them like a rock, there are many that will jump at the chance to take their place...

many of my clients were taking the water but the DEP stopped it
to clean the water is expensive, basically evaporation, mucho energy
and you still must haul the residue, some is as hot as 100,000 mg/l, or 2 tons of salt/sulfur per truck

I have obtained an NPDES permit to construct plant to treat 0.25 MGD but it is not economically feasible...yet

most states just inject it down the old wells, but the geology around here doesn't suit that method: too much pumpng energy and too low a rate...

we need the gas and we need the work, we just need to take our time and find a solution
some of my larger clients are gas related companies...

crooked operator http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11077/1132812-454.stm
DEP shutting down sewer plants from taking the water http://wduqnews.blogspot.com/2011/04/dep-asks-marcellus-shale-drillers-to.html

the issue is the streams flow is low, they draw water, frac, and return the waste increasing the concentration continuously
some have measured as high a 1000 mg/liter, background/normal <200
bromides have been increasing also, they have shutdown a few water plants

bromides are bad http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_732977.html
even the drilling industry has realized it's become an issue