Butler County residents protest after state tests of their wells absolve driller

Butler County residents protest after state tests of their wells absolve driller by Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 2, 2012
Janet McIntyre of The Woodlands, a rural community in southern Butler County, said her well water foams and turns purple when it comes out of her faucet. “When I bathe in it, I get rashes, so I’m thinking I shouldn’t be drinking it, either,” she said Thursday afternoon at a rally and march by more than 75 people to the downtown Butler office of Rex Energy Inc. to protest the company’s decision to stop providing replacement water to the McIntyres and 10 other families in the Connoquenessing Township community, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.…”The DEP found some toluene the first time it tested one of the water wells, then came back to retest that well and didn’t screen for toluene,” Ms. Sipe said. “We don’t trust them.”

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