New York State, Dept. of Environmental Conservation
http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/75370.html
[AOL Energy article] [The] widely anticipated report is the revised draft of New York State’s environmental statement on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, also known as “fracking…”
According to this revised draft, made public on Wednesday, certain types of fracking wells will requite site-specific regulations. Those include:
1) Any proposed high-volume hydraulic fracturing where the top of the target fracture
zone is shallower than 2,000 feet along a part of the proposed length of the wellbore;
2) Any proposed high-volume hydraulic fracturing where the top of the target fracture
zone at any point along the entire proposed length of the wellbore is less than 1,000
feet below the base of a known fresh water supply;
3) Any proposed well pad within the boundaries of a principal aquifer, or outside but
within 500 feet of the boundaries of a principal aquifer;
4) Any proposed well pad within 150 feet of a perennial or intermittent stream, storm
drain, lake or pond;
5) A proposed surface water withdrawal that is found not to be consistent with the
Department’s preferred passby flow methodology
6) Any proposed well location determined by the New York City Department of
Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) to be within 1,000 feet of its subsurface water
supply infrastructure.
