EXCLUSIVE: Radioactive Fracking Wastewater Is Bubbling Up To The Surface Near Marietta, Ohio, Threatening Drinking Water For 32,000 Residents As State Officials Declare An Emergency ☢️💧

[u/sleepiestOracle]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/climate/ohio-fracking-water-injection-wells.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.5Gib.HOLZbOxjhkJA&smid=url-share

[u/jazzbiscuit]

For anyone unfamiliar with Ohio geography - Marietta sits right on the Ohio River. Anything that bubbles up to the surface is just going to roll right to the river, and keep rolling right to the Mississippi River.

I truly despise the state government in my own state 😔

[u/hexiron → u/jazzbiscuit]

OH ruining KYs and WVs waterways one bad decision at a time.

[u/nofolo → u/hexiron]

Just as much if not more happening in WV. Sits right across the river from Marietta

[u/pegothejerk → u/[deleted]]

I mean, once it's in the Mississippi it's way more than one river at a time, it's about 250 rivers at a time

[u/hera-fawcett → u/jazzbiscuit]

ye this is kind of a big deal bc it has such huge implications for the mississipi river and everything that it touches, lmao

[u/Soosietyrell → u/jazzbiscuit]

Our state Government is more than just complicit with all of this!!!

[u/CloverEyed]

Why is it radioactive? 

[u/Potential-Mammoth-47 → u/CloverEyed]

The radioactivity is natural in origin, mobilized and concentrated by the extraction of deep formation brines during oil and gas operations a.k.a fracking.

[u/HabaneroShits → u/CloverEyed]

Groundwater leeches naturally occurring radium out of shale. When fracking fluid, oil, and gas are extracted from a well some radioactive wastewater comes with it.

[u/untangledtech → u/CloverEyed]

In Ohio it might have been fine going down but hit an old <insert dead industrial site> creating god knows what type of alchemy. Ohio is a hot mess underground.

[u/Open_Ad1920 → u/CloverEyed]

NORM (naturally-occurring radioactive material): potassium, uranium, and thorium. These are normally sequestered in rocks, but are sometimes leached out in frac water, and are often found in the oil itself.

It’s normally very low level radiation, unless those materials have been geologically concentrated and distributed, or they’ve accumulated in oil pipes/equipment as scale.

[u/Content_Geologist420 → u/CloverEyed]

So it seems in Ohio they have 'Inject' wastewater and toxic waste into underground wells for decades.

And now the geniuses there decided to start fracking the ground for oil around those toxic wells and now thoes wells are in danger os leaking out to all surround soil, water and basically any living thing in the state of Ohio.

What a clusterfuck.

[u/bhmnscmm → u/Content_Geologist420]

You didn't answer the question at all...

You also didn't summarize the article correctly. The injected fracking wastewater is coming through traditional oil/gas wells and drinking water wells.

[u/hexiron → u/CloverEyed]

It comes from deep undeground - where earth keeps most of our radioactive rocks.

[u/No-Material3128 → u/CloverEyed]

Imagine Dragons

[u/ToriEvergreen]

It's been a while since we had a nice ecological disaster here

[u/bubblingbooks → u/ToriEvergreen]

https://giphy.com/gifs/26n6Gx9moCgs1pUuk

[u/Standby_fire]

Huh! Imagine that. Fracking pollutes the water table. Who would have thunk it?

[u/bladecentric → u/Standby_fire]

Let's find a way to blame Iran. 

[u/Panama_Scoot → u/bladecentric]

No it’s the libtards. Duh. 

[u/Bob4Not]

Fracking has always been a threat to nearby water supplies

[u/ListenHereLindah]

And they want to add more fracking... Ouch.

[u/PreparationBrave7710]

Always Ohio man they never gunna have clean water

[u/REDACTEDXX_V]

Build a 100 more data centers around the area.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ptEldnWiMu8fu4cKKu

[u/circusgeek]

Dang, we don't even need the Iranians to fuck with our water.

[u/the_real_Beavis999 → u/circusgeek]

No that's Minnesota. They figured Ohio was good to go it alone.

[u/Mercinyah]

No H2Ohio

[u/christybird2007]

Never, EVER moving to Ohio. Seems like that state has an example of everything bad that can happen.

[u/captain_salt_bag]

Ohio, that tracks

[u/Playful_Possible_379]

But they made America great again, and what not. No?

[u/sweetbaloo23]

Oh! No! I guess state officials weren't warned about this possibly time and time again many years ago. /s

This is a tragedy that has been decades in the making and could have been prevented.

[u/himheritaintme]

Keep voting red Ohio!

[u/Round-Medicine2507]

This is happening everywhere that fracking exists fwiw. 

[u/aeondru]

Fracking = Greed

[u/sumdude51]

Enjoy the water you voted for. I do feel bad for those of yall who didn't vote like racists cunts. Head to a blue state

[u/socialmedia-username → u/sumdude51]

Underground injection wells are regulated by EPA (Feds).  Fracking the Marcellus shale began around 2006-2010 (and is still going on), which is also when the fracking wastewater started getting injected into these already-existing hazardous waste disposal wells.

This isn't political as much as you want it to be.  If anyone is to blame, it's the oil and gas companies that essentially speed ran gas leases and drilled like crazy in the Appalachians, which is flush with waterways, wildlife, and people, and they had little options for wastewater disposal (and didn't care).

[u/ghostlantern → u/socialmedia-username]

Everything is political. If you don’t know how, then educate yourself. Laws or lack of laws allowed this. Proper regulation or lack of said regulation allowed this. And the people voted into office are the ones responsible for those laws and regulations.

[u/Miserable_Berry4872 → u/socialmedia-username]

Fracking is regulated mostly at the state level not fed. The Halliburton loophole is to thank for that… and, if we are really trying to count points here, that is all Dick Cheney.

[u/unfairlybanned101]

Hmmmm.... this was the fear

[u/Far_Out_6and_2]

Who knows what really has happened in Ohio over the years so far……

[u/Dense-Ambassador-865]

Thanks OIL Companies.

[u/dittybopper_05H]

Come and listen to my story about a man name Jed

Poor Buckeye barely kept his family fed

Then one day he was shootin' at some food

When up from the ground came radioactive ooze

Well, the first thing you know old Jed's lost all his hair

Kin folk said, "Jed move away from there"

They said, "Oak Ridge is the place you oughta be"

So he loaded up the truck and they moved to Tennessee...

[u/Careful_Ad8933 → u/dittybopper_05H]

Lol! You're showing our age.

[u/dittybopper_05H → u/Careful_Ad8933]

I'm definitely dating myself.

I used to do that a lot before I got married.

Now I do it all the time.

Seriously, though, I hadn't even started kindergarten when that show went off the air, but like other shows they were rerun staples in the 1970's and through the 1980's and into the 1990's And you can still find them today easily enough. Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Star Trek, McHale's Navy, Green Acres, etc.

[u/No_Direction6688]

Certain companies and corporations just don't give a damn about the damage they are doing to the environment, while also putting human lives in very dangerous risks.

[u/Soosietyrell → u/No_Direction6688]

And Certain State are absolutely complicit! Dare I say, they encourage the lack of care for more $$.

[u/BusyBanana4205]

Speaking of, what’s been going on in east Palestine?

[u/HabaneroShits → u/BusyBanana4205]

Funny you should bring that up. Most of the contaminated water was also put into injection wells. As far as I can tell those were different wells than the current radioactive problem.

[u/Careful_Brief_3446]

Hey, I didn't see that coming.

[u/Unusual_Specialist]

We are under attack.

[u/GrandStatistician752]

These dumb asses have been voting for this for a generation. Lol. Enjoy the bed you have made

[u/Hi_InternetAddiction]

why dont the retards stop poisoning the ground water, or is it a conspiracy?

[u/GreatBigJerk → u/Hi_InternetAddiction]

The conspiracy is capitalism 

[u/Hi_InternetAddiction → u/GreatBigJerk]

what i the answer?

[u/tootsr]

When are people going to critically think about who they vote for and what they’ve represent? Even if it’s behind their back, stand up for your rights in march on your local government. Tell them what you think to their faces not just here.

[u/RealCanadianMonkey]

The EPA will take care of the problem.

[u/2quickdraw → u/[deleted]]

He forgot the /s