Briny water flows into area streams Water testers are finding
high levels of bromide in mine waste flowing into Ten Mile Creek
and Whiteley Creek, which then flow into the Monongahela River.
The river provides drinking water for one million people.
Conservationists suspect the bromide is coming from wastewater
from gas drilling someone is dumping into the mines. Map
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Maps Chuck Hunnell, an Izaak Walton League water tester, holds a
container used to pull water from streams and mine discharges.
Natasha Khan / PublicSource Ken Dufalla, right, and Chuck
Hunnel, members of Izaak Walton League of America, said they’re
finding bromide - a salt associated with Marcellus Shale
drilling - in coal mine discharges in Greene and Washington
counties. Natasha Khan / PublicSource Water at the edge of the
Clyde Mine discharge in East Bethelehem Township turns the water
orangey red where it flows into Ten Mile Creek. Natasha Khan /
PublicSource In the January cold,