Quake: D&L halts operations at Youngstown brine well

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D&L halts operations at Youngstown brine well
Published: Sat, December 31, 2011 @ 12:10 a.m.
ODNR gives the order after dec. 24 quake data show a depth shallower than first reported
SEE ALSO: 2011: ‘Year of the Earthquakes’ in Mahoning Co.

By Karl Henkel

YOUNGSTOWN The small earthquake that shook Youngstown on Christmas Eve had a depth shallower than originally reported, prompting the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on Friday to order D&L Energy Inc. to cease operations at a nearby brine-injection well.

The magnitude 2.5 earthquake, officially the 10th since March 17 to occur within two miles of the brine-injection well on Ohio Works Drive, had a depth of 11,000 feet, said Andy Ware, deputy director at ODNR. It was the shallowest depth of any of the quakes.

That is only about 2,000 feet below the bottom of the D&L injection well, which ceased operations as of 5 p.m. Friday.

<..> The state suspects that brine has entered the nearly impermeable Precambrian formation underground. That formation is more than 9,000 feet below the ground.

http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/dec/31/da...rine-well/

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