I wanted to respond to your request for thoughts on the issue of fracking wastewater and wastewater treatment plants [Let’s Be Clear, “Figuring Fracking,” TPO, July 2013].
Our plant was approached some time back to accept fracking wastewater. We ultimately turned it away, and the last I heard the material was going into a deep injection well in Ohio. I can tell you that besides very high TDS from a variety of sources and a relatively high COD, I was shocked to see very significant amounts of radium 226 and 228, uranium and strontium, and extremely high readings of gross alpha
