SGEIS comment areasx

! #" !$ $%&&Water Issues -- Withdrawals, Use, Disposal, Contamination 1. DSGEIS states that private wells and springs should be used as drinking water sources only as a last resort. There is no discussion about the fact that they are many people’s only option. [dSGEIS p. 2-24] 2. Drinking water standards only protect against known or anticipated contaminants and therefore will not guard against chemicals that are not historically anticipated to be in drinking water. Yet, DEC will not make chemical contents public. [dSGEIS p. 2-12] 3. Inappropriate reliance on the fact that “No documented instances of groundwater contamination are recorded in the NYSDEC files from previous horizontal drilling or hydraulic fracturing projects in New York.” DEC has acknowledged that it has never looked. [dSGEIS 2-26] 4. Water testing does not test for methane. [dSGEIS p. 7-41] Local health departments are responsible for addressing and investigating water contamination. [dSGEIS p. 7-42] 5. Other potential causes have to be ruled out before water contamination cases are referred back to DEC. Presumption is not that problem is caused by drilling. [dSGEIS p. 7-42] 6. No discussion of impact of 4000 identified wells awaiting plugging or 40,000 unidentified abandoned wells. [STRONGER survey of NY 2006] Yet the dSGEIS notes at Appendix 11, p. 31 “It is ...