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New York - Where Frackers Dump Their Frack Waste

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Latest report here on where frack waste, frack flowback, radioactive frack rubbers, and fracking filth are being dumped in New York, because Fracksylvania is full fracking up.

Fracksylvania gets fracked, New York gets the frack filth. Such a deal.

Low grade radioactive frack filth - the gift that keeps on giving. . . cancer, birth defects, etc.

28,618 tons of unconventionally-drilled solid waste went to landfills in NYS, 94.7% of which was drill cuttings. Chemung County Landfill received 24,753 tons of these drill cuttings. By contrast, at the peak of PA fracking, NYS received nearly 214,000 tons of drill cuttings from PA. In 2016, 187 barrels of unconventional waste fluid were stored at a facility on Onondaga Lake. In addition, 1160 barrels of conventional (vertical) drilling waste were spread on roads in Allegany and Chautauqua Counties in 2016.

In stark comparison, unconventional liquid waste sent in 2016 from PA to OH for injection was far greater: 1.3 million barrels. 55,449 barrels of conventional waste was also sent to Ohio, mostly disposed of into injection wells. Ohio also landfilled 20,670 tons of PA’s solid fracking unconventional fracking waste.

Karen has updated FracTracker’s interactive map, http://maps.fractracker.org/latest/?appid=2d57aab988424ad5aebea49cbe2e1448 where you can turn each year’s information on and off. Disposal summaries from 2011 to 2016 are included in the Details tab, and copied below.

In 2011, 5 NYS landfills (Angelica, Lowman, Niagara Falls, Painted Post, and Waterloo) received a total of:
  • 213,724.44 tons of drill cuttings
  • 8590 Bbls of drilling fluid
  • 1320 Bbls of flow-back fluid
  • 443.47 tons of flow-back fracturing sand
  • 445 Bbls of produced fluid
In 2012, 4 NYS landfills (at Angelica, Lowman, Niagara Falls, and 2 facilities in Painted Post) received a total of:
  • 70,002.1 tons of drill cuttings
  • 8199.48 Bbl of drilling fluids
  • 3348.1 Bbl of drilling fluid waste
  • 55.7 tons of flow-back fracturing sand
In 2013, 4 NYS landfills (at Angelica, Lowman, Niagara Falls, Painted Post) and a storage facility based in Syracuse, received a total of:
69,362 tons of drill cuttings (84% went to Lowman/Chemung County Landfill)
  • 112 Bbl of drilling fluid waste
  • 50 tons of flowback fracturing sand
  • 525 Bbl produced fluid (landfilled)
  • 2606 Bbl fracing fluid waste (stored)
  • 2200 Bbl produced fluid waste (stored)
In 2014, 2 NYS landfills (at Painted Post and Lowman) and a storage facility based in Syracuse, received a total of:
  • 104,367 tons of drill cuttings (77% went to Lowman/Chemung County Landfill)
  • 83 Bbl produced fluid (stored)
  • 19 Bbl fracing fluid waste (stored)
In 2015, 3 NYS landfills (at Painted Post, Angelica, and Lowman) and a storage facility based in Syracuse, received a total of:
  • 60,695 tons of drill cuttings (86% went to Lowman/Chemung County Landfill)
  • 497 Bbl produced fluid (stored)
  • 1.28 Bbl fracing fluid waste (stored)
In 2016, 3 NYS landfills (at Painted Post, Lowman, and Angelica), as well as a storage facility in Syracuse, received a total of:
  • 28,618 tons of solid waste (86%, or 24,753 tons, were drill cuttings that were sent to Lowman/Chemung County Landfill)
  • 168 barrels of oil and gas waste
  • 1.76 tons of other oil and gas wastes
  • 18.92 tons of other oil and gas wastes
  • 115 tons of servicing fluid
  • 621 tons of soil contaminated by oil and gas related spills
  • 748 tons of synthetic liner material
In addition to unconventional waste disposal from drilling from sources in Pennsylvania, conventional (vertical) drilling wastes originating in PA were also disposed of in New York State in 2011-2015.
These included:
In 2011
760.03 Bbls (31,921 gals) road-spread in Chautauqua, NY (Chautauqua County)
2602 Bbls (109, 284 gals) road-spread in Bolivar, NY (Allegany County)
2936 Bbls (123,312 gals) to centralized treatment plant in Buffalo, NY (Erie County)
In 2012
778 Bbls (32,676 gals) road-spread in Chautauqua, NY (Chautauqua County)
111.86 Bbls (4,698 gals) road-spread in Cuba, NY (Allegany County)
80 Bbls (3360 gals) to Hakes Landfill in Painted Post, NY (Steuben County)
In 2013
943.02 Bbls (39,607 gals) road-spread in Chautauqua County, NY
338.74 Bbls (14,227 gals) road-spread in Bolivar, NY (Allegany County)
In 2014
789 Bbls (33,138 gals) road-spread in Chautauqua County, NY
224 Bbls (9408 gals) road-spread in Bolivar, NY (Allegany County)
352 Bbls (14,784 gals) to Hyland Landfill in Angelica, NY (Allegany County)
153 Bbls (6426 gals) of residual waste to Syracuse, NY for storage
In 2015
195 Bbls (8190 gals) road-spread in Chautauqua County, NY
8 Bbls (336 gals) road-spread in Mayville, NY
In 2016
896 Bbls (37,632 gals) road-spread in Bolivar, NY (Allegany County)
265 Bbls (11,130 gals) road-spread in Chautauqua County, NY

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