Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Where Are All the Fracking Brine Injection Sites In Ohio

Update 1/29/2018 - the map has been removed from the Internet.

The map I am going to link to at the end of this post, dated January 2012, shows all of the brine injection wells in Ohio, as of that date.

Forty-three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties host brine injection sites, with brine injected to different depths in different counties. Here, on this site, the counties are in alphabetical order for your convenience in finding your own county, or you can hit Ctrl+f and type the name of your county into the little search box that pops up, and it should take you right to it.

While the map is dated January 2012, it is possible it was only recently made available online, as I have done many, many, and very frequent Internet searches for this information and this is the first I have found anything.

The map is color-coded to show what level or depth the brine is injected to in the earth's crust. (Check the map's key for more details on that.)

Some of the dots are piled on top of one another, making it hard to see without zooming, but here is a basic rundown of how many injection wells can be found in each county. The counties with brine injection wells are highlighted to make it easier to spot them. The wells shown crossing county lines are not accurately represented here because I did not know which county gets to - or has to - claim each of those.

  1. Adams: None
  2. Allen: None
  3. Ashland: None
  4. Ashtabula: Twelve
  5. Athens: Seven (Three appear to overlap Vinton and Meigs county lines)
  6. Auglaize: One
  7. Belmont: Two
  8. Brown: None
  9. Butler: None
  10. Carroll: Four (two appear to overlap into Tuscarawas and Stark county lines)
  11. Champaign: None
  12. Clark: None
  13. Clermont: None
  14. Clinton: None
  15. Columbiana: Five (all of these are on the Stark and Mahoning county lines, making it hard to determine which county actually gets to claim them.
  16. Coshocton: Four (one is on the Knox county line)
  17. Crawford: None
  18. Cuyahoga: None
  19. Darke: None
  20. Defiance: None
  21. Delaware: One
  22. Erie: One
  23. Fairfield: None
  24. Fayette: None
  25. Franklin
  26. Fulton: One
  27. Gallia: Two
  28. Geauga: Four (two are on county line shared with Ashatabula County)
  29. Greene: None
  30. Guernsey: Three
  31. Hamilton: None
  32. Hancock: None
  33. Hardin: One (on county line shared with Marion and Wyandot)
  34. Harrison: None
  35. Henry: One
  36. Highland: None
  37. Hocking: Two
  38. Holmes: Five (one on Wayne county line)
  39. Huron: None
  40. Jackson: None
  41. Jefferson: One
  42. Knox: Five (one on Coshocton county line)
  43. Lake: Two (one on edge of Lake Erie)
  44. Lawrence: None
  45. Licking: Two
  46. Logan: None
  47. Lorain: One
  48. Lucas: None
  49. Madison: None
  50. Mahoning: Nine (six are on the Columbiana, Stark, and Trumbull county lines)
  51. Marion: None (But one is on county lines where Marion, Hardin, and Wyandot counties meet)
  52. Medina: One
  53. Meigs: Eleven (one is on the county line between Meigs, Athens, and Vinton)
  54. Mercer: None
  55. Miami: None
  56. Monroe: None
  57. Montgomery: None
  58. Morgan: Ten (two are on the border of Muskingum and Athens counties)
  59. Morrow: Thirteen
  60. Muskingum: Five (one is on the border of Morgan county)
  61. Noble: Four (two are together on the border of Washington county)
  62. Ottawa: None
  63. Paulding: None
  64. Perry: Three
  65. Pickaway: Seven
  66. Pike: None
  67. Portage: Eighteen (five are on the borders of Geauga and Trumbull Counties)
  68. Preble: None
  69. Putnam: None
  70. Richland: One
  71. Ross: None
  72. Sandusky: None
  73. Scioto: None
  74. Seneca: Two
  75. Shelby: None
  76. Stark: Seventeen (five are on the borders of Summit, Mahoning, and Carroll counties)
  77. Summit: One
  78. Trumbull: Nine (four are on the borders of Portage and Mahoning counties)
  79. Tuscarawas: Six (two are on the border of Carrol county.)
  80. Union: None
  81. Van Wert: None
  82. Vinton: Four (all on the border of Athens and Meigs counties)
  83. Warren: None
  84. Washington: Nine
  85. Wayne: Three (one on the border of Holmes)
  86. Williams: None
  87. Wood: One
  88. Wyandot: Two (one on the border of Hardin and Wyandot counties)
This is the link to the map: Class II Brine Injection Wells of Ohio


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