So I may have misinterpreted the pictures that were presented in your slides, but it looked like pipes coming out of the brine treatment facility into a creek and it is just dumping all of this ineffectively treated, highly contaminated dangerous stuff right into a creek on the surface in Pennsylvania.
On the recordApril 11, 2011
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Merkley questions the treatment of contaminated wastewater in Pennsylvania.
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