When your water makes plastic, it's been fracked

This is a really cool science experiment you can do with your well water after hydraulic fracturing.

1. Run a pitcher of water.
2. Wait for the intense foaming to subside.
3. Apply heat to the water.
4. Pick out chunks of plastic.
5. Apply lotion to your burning skin (Next time use a slotted spoon to pick out the chunks of plastic.)
   
6. Contact EPA.

I really don't know what to say about this other than please just watch  the videos. Oh, and the neighbor's water does similar things.

UPDATE: The water tested positive for MBAS and surfactants. You have to know what to test for and the chemicals used in fracking are a top secret so it's not as simple as you might think.

This video shows how the water foams, and vapor rises. I've smelled it  and it smells like melting plastic.

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Well Water - Vaporizing Edition from Runner Susan on Vimeo.

This video is a little rough but please hang with it. You won't believe it.

I used to blog here all the time and I regularly got on the rec list but I got sick and tired of people telling me how clean natural gas is. Thankfully, GASLAND came out, fracking became more widespread and now more people are paying attention.

I blog about the negative effects of natural gas extraction every single day at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS.

UPDATE: Feds to Pavillion Residents: Dont Drink the Water and Be Careful Not to Blow Yourselves up

I thought I made it clear above when I said:

I really don't know what to say about this other than please just watch  the videos. Oh, and the neighbor's water does similar things.

...that I really don't know WTF to say. I'm not a scientist but I can add and this water was just fine (at least it didn't foam, I'm pretty sure lighting it is something new) then about 8 or 10 gas wells were drilled very near her home and now the water is obviously no longer fine. Neither is the neighbor's water.

If it were oh, so easy to find out what is in the water, then there wouldn't be hundreds and possibly thousands of people in the gas-patches all across America scrambling around trying to figure out WTF is wrong with their water.

Just read about Pavilion Wyoming and see how long they have been trying to figure out what the frack happened to their water.

And, for the love of God, may nothing like this every happen to your water.